Shadowhunters
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Title card for the second season
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| Also known as | Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments |
| Genre | Fantasy |
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The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare |
| Developed by | Ed Decter |
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| Opening theme | "This Is the Hunt" by Ruelle |
| Composer(s) | Ben Decter |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) |
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| Location(s) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
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| Original network | Freeform |
| Picture format | 16:9 HDTV |
| Audio format | Dolby SR |
| Original release | January 12, 2016 – present |
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Shadowhunters (also known as Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments) is an American fantasy television series based on The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, and developed for television by Ed Decter. It is the second adaptation of the novel series, after the 2013 film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, which like Shadowhunters was produced by Constantin Film.
The show received a straight-to-series order on March 30, 2015, and premiered on January 12, 2016 on Freeform. In March 2016, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a second season of 20 episodes, which premiered on January 2, 2017.
Clary Fray has just enrolled at Brooklyn Academy of Arts. On her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is a Shadowhunter, a human born with angelic blood who protect humans from demons. That night, Clary's mother, Jocelyn, is abducted by a group of rogue Shadowhunters called the Circle. Their leader is Jocelyn's ex-husband, Valentine Morgenstern.
With her mother missing, Clary turns to Luke, a person she trusted, only to seemingly be betrayed. Clary joins up with a band of Shadowhunters to save her mother and discovers powers she never knew she possessed. Clary is thrown into the world of demon hunting with the mysterious, narcissistic, and attractive Shadowhunter Jace, and also her loyal and geeky friend Simon. Now living among fairies, warlocks, vampires, and werewolves, Clary begins a journey of self-discovery as she learns more about her past and what her future may hold.
In 2010, Screen Gems announced that they were going into production on the film adaptation of City of Bones, the first book in The Mortal Instruments series, with hopes of starting a successful film franchise. Production on a film adaptation of the second book, City of Ashes, was due to start in September 2013, but was delayed to 2014, and eventually cancelled, after the first film failed to recoup its budget.
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