ABC has renewed some of their summer TV series but The Whispers isn’t one of them. The drama won’t be returning for a second season. To no surprise, the network has cancelled The Whispers after one season of 13 episodes.
On The Whispers, several Washington, DC children start talking about and playing with an imaginary friend. When their mysterious games turn dangerous, FBI child specialist Claire Bennigan (Lily Rabe) is called in to investigate. The rest of the cast includes Barry Sloane, Milo Ventimiglia, Derek Webster, Kristen Connolly, Kylie Rogers, and Kyle Harrison Breitkopf.
The series debuted in June to a 1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.66 million viewers. That was a decent start for a summer series but the ratings took a big drop in week two and got much worse as the weeks progressed. The season ended up averaging a 0.83 demo rating with 3.43 million.
ABC let the options on the cast expire at the end of June. Despite that and the low ratings, network execs were supposedly still considering bringing the series back for a second season. Ventimiglia has since confirmed that that won’t be happening.
Sloane recently shared an image that shows an inside joke with the cast and crew.
Found a @TheWhispersABC tee shirt we had made for the crew. This was an ongoing joke. #TheWhispers @MiloVentimiglia pic.twitter.com/lP7T387tGE
— Barry Sloane (@BarrySloane) October 16, 2015
Ventimiglia retweeted and joked that “it was always f***** aliens. The best times my brother. Miss em.”
Unfortunately, the fans of the summer series were left with a cliffhanger ending. Hopefully, at some point, the producers will share what might have been.
What do you think? Did you like The Whispers TV show on ABC? Would you have watched a second season? On another channel?
Oh yeah…to add to my disgruntled and more than disappointed commentary…The Whispers was one of the most completely thought thru..not so sci Fi that is was ridiculous..perfect amount of drama and twist story line..and nothing so left field that you were ever confused…nice flow series! I enjoyed the hell out of it! Binged all 13 episodes in 2 days! And this is the one you cancel??
Do you people have any idea how many totally bozo patrol series that you do finish? That is just wrong!
I AM PISSED!! Networks should never be allowed to run a series without giving it an ending!! It is an absolute waste of people’s time to invest in a series..be given enough to re really get into it…and then have the rug pulled out! If a series is cancelled then it should be required to give it some sort of ending! Is it too much trouble to run a pilot and then decide whether to move forward or not? Do you people not get how annoying this is? Do you think people don’t have anything else better to do with… Read more »
whaaaaaaaat ……… this is bad idea to cancel it why ??? we are in 21CEN… and you just take that idea and cancel one of the best Show ever i seen ……. are you joking?????!?!?!?!
I hope that it at least becomes a netflix show! That would be great! I was totally looking forward to season 2…
Canceling this show was the worst idea ABC has ever made. It’s 2019 and yet we as fans still wait for the second season. Barry you did a great job on this one, and the cast as well. We still waiting..tick.. tock.. tick..tock.