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 (𝙾𝙵𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙸𝙰𝙻) (@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?
maybe net flicks or a different Chanel will pick it up . this was a great show and i was looking forward to a second season because it had so much potential. I think ABC just dose not have right viewer base for sy fy . I have been watching it on line and i am willing to bet a large number of viewers have done the same. But networks do not take in to account the vast numbers of people watching programs via the web . so all i can do is hope net flicks picks it up .
Well this is annoying. I had really grown fond of it and iam still interested in knowing how it all ends. my fav being harper. give a preview at least or a summary of the ending. Leaving us hanging like that isnt fair.
I love the Whispers and I am so angry it is canceled cancel the Goldberg’s or beyond the tank instead I hate ABC now
**** You ABC. you always do the same with the good shows. Total dissapointment!
I liked the show, however I had to watch most of the episodes on On Demand. I wake up at 4:30 am and the 9:00 pm time slot didn’t work for me. I do hope that The Whispers does get picked up some where. I would like to see how it ends.
Ahhhh! Noooooo! I just finished watching episode 13 on my DsTv explora.
If I had known there was no season 2, I wouldn’t have watched it at all.
Ouch! What an ending. I think I will have to make up my own conclusion, that everyone taken incl Clare are all dead and that the alines won.
Im still bummed that there’s no season 2 🙁
NOOOOOOOOO! They (ABC) can’t do this to us!! I wanted to see what happened to the kids… I loved them here, especially the acting of Kylie Rogers(Minx), and the cute Abby Fortson(Harper). This show must be picked up by another network, or one of the streaming services… SOMEBODY… allow us to see what happened the the kids and Claire!
Exactly! If a streaming service doesn’t pick the show up then ABC owes it to its viewers to air a TV movie to wrap the storyline up. Otherwise, why should any of us watch another show they broadcast? They fooled me once with Forever, shame on them. They fooled me twice with The Whispers. Shame on me. There won’t be a third time.
Well Wes and MInx recently created their own conclusion
https://twitter.com/BarrySloane/status/640250507970244609
My daughter and I loved this show! It was the highlight of our week! Please bring it back!!!
Please bring out season 2!!!
I’m terribly disappointed that ABC cancelled “The Whispers”. I thought it was an excellent show having a great story line and very fine acting. I’m amazed that the ratings kept going down. No one asked me for my rating which is 10 out of 10!
I am so disappointed and more than a little mad! ABC SUCKS!!!! I’m done!
I loved this show why are you not ending it and letting the people who watched it get an ending this is why we hate weekly shows. This is not fair I hate TV!!!
I DON’T TRUST ABC ANY MORE…EVERY TIME I WATCH A SHOW THEY CREATE THAT I LIKE, AND START FOLLOWING…. THEY CANCEL IT. I WORK IN THE FILM INDUSTRY, AND I GET HOW RATINGS, AND VIEWERSHIP WORK…HOWEVER, WE ARE NOT IN THE 1950’S ANY MORE, AND NIELSEN RATINGS DON’T COUNT, ACTUALLY THEY STOPPED COUNTING DECADES AGO.. A SHOW LIKE “THE WHISPERS” SHOULD JUST BE PICKED UP BY NETFILK, HULU, AMAZON PRIME, AND TAKEN OFF NETWORK T,V. I spoke to my parents the other day, and they only way they will watch a network show is on Netflix, or Hulu. They want… Read more »
i hate this i was hopeing for a awsome tv show end at least. i am so mad that you at least did not give a ending. ps i am f-ing 10 bring it back
Hey, if you are not a Neilson Family, then ABC doesn’t care what you watch or think. Write the advertisers, they care!