Pasadena, Calif. — National Geographic will premiere its Academy Award-nominated film Free Solo on March 3 on a commercial free basis, the network announced during its Friday Television Critics Association winter press tour session.

The movie, which follows rock climber star Alex Honnold as he successfully climbed the more than 3,000 ft El Capitan rock cliff in Yosemite National Park without a rope, was nominated for an 2019 Academy Award for best documentary feature and is the second highest grossing docu film of 2018 with more than $17 million, according to the network.

"The plan was always to air it on the channel in [first quarter 2019), but certainly the movie's juggernaut [box office] performance pushed it back toward the end of the first quarter,” said Carolyn Bernstein, executive vice president of scripted content and documentary films said during the panel.

Nat Geo also announced a partnership with Procter & Gamble for Activate, a six-part documentary series focusing on extreme poverty, inequality and sustainability issues to help mobilize global citizens to drive meaningful and lasting change, said network officials. 

The series, which will feature Uzo Aduba, Rachel Brosnahan, Hugh Jackman, Gayle King, Usher and Pharrell Williams and will showcase firsthand the work that is being done to combat extreme poverty and inspire a global movement, will debut globally in fall 2019, according to Nat Geo. 

Freeform will premiere the spinoff to its successful thriller series Pretty Little Liars on March 20, the network said during its Television Critics Association winter tour session on Tuesday.

Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists -- based on the novel The Perfectionists with characters from the Sara Shepard novel Pretty Little Liars -- follows the overachieving residents of a small town where the high-stakes environment eventually causes the murder of one of its residents, according to the network. Pretty Little Liars stars Janel Parrish and Sasha Pieterse (pictured above) reprise their roles from the new series. 

Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists is produced by Alloy Entertainment and Long Lake Media in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television. I. Marlene King (Pretty Little Liars, Famous in Love) serves as executive producer with Charlie Craig (Pretty Little Liars, The 100), Leslie Morgenstein (Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries), Gina Girolamo (The 100, The Originals) and Joseph Dougherty (Pretty Little Liars).