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?
Definitely need a series 2 it was a great what I had to binge watch it was that good
Please let there be a second season!! Watched it as a box set on now TV and I Loved it!! Please please please please I will recommend it to everyone.
I am very upset that season 1 ended up on a big cliffhanger i wish there would be a season 2 or at least ABC tell us what happens next.
They should the show back what the hell it was a good show. Please bring it back
**** yea they need to bring it back WTF! That’s a great ******* show I’m completely pissed. Y’all promote all these bull **** ass shows that ain’t **** but get rid of the good ones you people are ******* asses !
Loved this show, want to see a second season please!
Please bring back season 2. Claire and all those other children.. Renew the actors contracts please.
PLEASE BRING BACK WHISPERS, ITA AMAZING. Promote more, if stranger things did well and was accepted this would be as well. People love stranger things. LETS BRING BACK WHIPERS AND PUT IT OUT THERE-NETFLIX
Just watched the first series box set on sky TV here in the UK and really enjoyed it! Unhappy to see that there won’t be a second series! So many popular ongoing series to let the really good new stuff get enough ratings to get renewed i think. Sad times! I loved backstrom too! All these great actors and stories and here we sit watching yet another new series of finding Bigfoot lol!!!!!
I watched all 13 episodes of season 1 and really enjoyed it; I would definitely watch another season and think it is so unfair to leave things up in the air.
I need to know what happens to Claire. It took a few episodes to get into this but now I want more. I would definitely watch season 2
It took me a few episodes to get into it, but I found it by accident on box sets, I don’t think it was advertised enough, I had not heard of it, it was brilliant and i wish it had not been cancelled
Advertising the show more. Horrible grammar. Lol
I am so disappointed in the network! I feel like if the network had put it out there with more and better appetizing than maybe everyone will want to pay more attention to the show. I would have thought the network wouldn’t just give up so easily. I was really enjoying the show. I never heard of it until this year and just by watching one episode I had to watch more. I vote the network should bring it back on air and don’t give up so fast and work harder.
I WANT ANOTHER SEASON!!! My mum and I just finished episode 13. We’re addicted! I can’t believe it’s over- so sad!!!!!!
So so sad not continuing to a season 2 I would have watched this no problem. Why it was not more popular I don’t know but then again can’t say I saw it when it aired. Only tried on the off chance as a box set, hopefully another channel will see it into a second season and answer some questions for us Whisperers!