ABC Family has cancelled Ravenswood after one short season of 10 episodes. Though Pretty Little Liars is the cable channel’s biggest scripted series, the spin-off just never caught on.
Ravenswood follows a group of five young strangers who find their lives intertwined thanks to a deadly curse in a small Pennsylvania town. The cast includes Tyler Blackburn, Nicole Anderson, Britne Oldford, Brett Dier, Merritt Patterson, and Steven Cabral.
Debuting in late October, Ravenswood’s first episode drew a healthy 2.12 million viewers. However, many viewers must not have liked what they saw because only half as many tuned in for the second episode.
The cable channel tried to give the series a fighting chance by putting it on hiatus over the holidays and then by pairing it with Liars. That gave the show an initial boost but viewers fled once again the following week. The 10 episode season ended up averaging 1.29 million viewers.
The defacto series finale aired on February 4th.
What do you think? Did you like Ravenswood? Are you sorry there won’t be a second season?
I thought it was the best show on television
Have loved Ravenswood and watched every episode. Would love to see it returned, but if not, why not bring back The Lying Game — another really good one.
I am disappointed that I won’t know why the five were chosen and how this happened.
I am very angry that 1 of the few shows I like on tv today has been cancelled. This show was awesome. It was a great show w/ an interesting story line and talented cast of young actors and actresses. Very sorry to see that people did not want to give it a good go around so us followers could have closure. Now we will not know how the lives of these 5 characters will end. RIP Ravenswood, I sure hope Caleb returns to PLL because Hannah is lost w/o him.
I love the show and I did not even know it was a spin off of PLL, because I’ve only seen one ep (the pilot) of PLL. It was good, it’s just that I didn’t have the time to get into it, so I didn’t recognize Caleb nor Hannah. For me Ravenswood was a stand-alone show which I thoroughly enjoyed. Maybe because as you say, people are missing Caleb and Hannah is lost without him, the producers must have decided to cancel it and return him to PLL, because I don’t believe it has to do with ratings or not… Read more »
I have a feeling that all the on-line viewers were not calculated in total ratings because if they were Ravenswood would probably not have been cancelled.
You are so correct. With all the disappointed viewers I don’t think they really cared about how many of us loved the show. All they cared about were the viewers who hated Hannah and Caleb not being together. Of course those viewers could no stand that Tyler Blackburn might have wanted to branch out to his own show – out selfish
Give us ravenswood back!!!
hate that this show was cancelled and finished with a good ep with no answres!! at least for respect of the fans wrap it up and finish it well!!!
Really upset to find this information about canceling ravenswood. I am hooked and was wanting to see more I was actually searching to find when it was going to return since I thought the last episode was just the mid season finale, I love that each episode keeps me wondering what is gonna happen next. Please reconsider and bring this show back, it’s only been off for two weeks and I miss it.
There are so many of us that agree with you. I can’t believe the station took the cry babies into consideration when they canceled this show. PLEASE BRING IT BACK AT ANOTHER TIME AND DAY.
I’m really bummed they canceled Ravenswood. I really liked it and got into it more and more every time. And 1.29 million? Seriously, those aren’t enough viewers? Pathetic.. Sadly I never had the chance to watch it on tv since I live in Europe and they don’t air it here, so I had to watch it online. And I think lots of viewers out there just watched it online, so those ratings are false if you look at the bigger picture.
They had to calm down all their PLL fans. They were so worried that since they made Tyler Blackburn move to Ravenswood and break up with Hannah they would suffer ratings in their most popular show on ABCF. Unfortunately, they couldn’t think outside the box and try the show on another evening different time. Yes, Ravenswood has it’s own following but the station doesn’t care.
I am a stay at home mom if two little girls. I watch Disney and Nick Jr. I DVR Pretty Little Liars and Ravenwood. I really wish they didnt cancel. I want to find out what happens. I would buy a book series.
So sad. Love the show! Please reconsider your decision.
ARE YOU KIDDING?! This show was my favorite show of all, I had this humongous addiction to it!! & c’mon, like 1.29 million viewers isn’t enough?! I recon half of the 2 million viewers simply just watched the episodes online & not on TV. Please bring back the show! People get hooked! No one can just watch one episode & give it up, that ain’t true, this show is extremely interesting! I watched the last episode online & while waiting to hear from the second season I found out it was canceled.. It was devastating.. 🙁 Now I will never… Read more »
No!!! Please don’t cancel Ravenswood!!!! It’s a great show! It is not right for a network to end a show before it really has a chance. One season is not enough, People don’t start talking about a show until the first season is over, I didn’t watch pretty Little Liars until after the first season, then I was hooked and re-watched it from the beginning, this is what happens. Please Don’t cancel Ravenswood!!!!!
why did they stop i have a ravenswood addiction and you guys stopped it because of 1.29million do you not know how many that is first they stop the lying games now they stop ravenswood what is next i can’t im already watching pll but it’s stopping soon what should we watch then nothing i like horror here were i live basically evryone watches ravenswood please bring it back
I absolutely love this show. Please don’t cancel it. It is so engaging and most kids in my school love it. Ravenswood is a great show for teenagers and it creates conversation! I have made friends with people I never really hang out with because of this show!!! Please don’t cancel it ! It’s amazing!
I absolutely love the show!! Please just make another one or two more seasons. I want to know what is going to happen to the pack! I always look forward to this show and it is an amazing show.