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?
Please bring back Whispers !!!! At least let us see what happened in Season two that was or should have been filmed. At least on ABC.com !!!!
I just finished watching the first season and I’m so hooked, there needs to be more seasons, the story is so interesting, if Americans won’t watch it New Zealanders will definitely watch it! I’m so disappointed :/ .. I need to know what happened to Claire
Really, we need a second season. Despite the rating there is a hope on the success of the show. Most seasons started as this one does. And become really successful
Love the show need second season
Very disappointed it’s been cancelled! It was a thrilling show to watch and ten times better than half the bologna that the network airs. I don’t care if it comes back on a different channel, but we need closure. At least one more season to wrap it up.
please please we need season 2 its a must I enjoyed it so much
I’m disappointed that it won’t be coming back. I hate when a decent show gets cancelled after one season and there is no closure. Get rid of some of the other crap TV instead!
Now the show is even running on german pay TV and ppl here love it. So please renew it and check on your ratings as of now, I’m sure after the word got spread the ratings will be a 100% better than last years!
great. I would see it
I hated it. They kept saying the name Drill over and over and over… it drove me crazy the number of times a minute they said that damn name. I couldnt bear it.
NOOOOOO! My daughter and I loved that show! We would watch it while I combed her hair and it became our weekly routine! She keeps asking me when it’s coming back on, so this is so sad to hear. Who’s Drew? Where did the kids go? Ughhhhh! …..We loved the “Whispers!” …P.S. She said that she is in third grade and a part of her life is not complete…..lol
PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!
Yes I would watch the Whispers on any channel! I enjoyed that show very much!!
Just finished watching season 1 and Ioved it, it would be a shame not to make a second season! Some shows get the hype they need later than others and I think that is the case for The Whispers – please reconsider! 🙂
I would love to see a second season of the whisper.
This is the second time that i’m really excited to watch season 2 of a tv serie and network decided to cancel. The same happened with “The Family”