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 The Whispers.
We need that series back pleasssssseee
ok,Its a really great series still wondering if they SHOULD make one]If they do im grabbing the popcorn!
Second damn show that I was REALLY enjoying that I’ve found out is cancelled. And yet ****** reality tv shows are still on the air… These TV execs really need to get their damn acts together.
I watch a lot of different shows, and this is definitely one of my favourites!! Give it a second season at least, I’m sure the views will go up. This show needs to keep going!!
You guys suck!! Me and my mom would make sure we were right by a television every tuesday in order to see the show. E V E R Y Tuesday.!! There could at least be a finale so we can have some type of closure. We have questions!!!! We personally want to know what Drill looks like. Will he even be visible now that their in the ship? What exactly is their master plan?? Why the kids? He got them to do what he wanted by why take them all? What’s going to happen to Bennigan? She’s not a child,… Read more »
Nooooooooo! I was so looking forward to the next season of The whispers! We all would come to work the next day and talk about what happened on the show the night before. We were really into it. If someone hadn’t seen it yet, we’d have to wait until the watched it on their DVR, but they had better do it soon or they’d get a spoiler alert! Pleeeeez, bring it back, or take it to another network!!!!!
I’m so disappointed to learn The Whispers was cancelled! Wish they’d bring it back on put it on Syfy, or even Hulu or Netflix.
PISSED ! LOVED THIS SHOW ! WTF ABC !
I for one I’m sorry and disappointed to hear that it won’t be returning. Hopefully the producers will at least have a return special, to complete the circle for those of us who enjoyed the show. Closure is always appreciated.
This was the one show everyone in the family liked. Hopefully another channel will pick up the show. This show was the best. We looked forward to it every week!
Are you sh!ttin me???? I loved this show!! I’m so irritated with society. As soon as I find something I love, the dumb networks cancel it before it really gets off it’s feet I swear. Forget you ABC, I will never watch another show on your network. I was just googling when season 2 would start and I taken by surprise at it’s cancellation. So angry & incredibly sad right now.
I enjoyed it. Missed the final episode due to a storm in our area. Would definitely watch this show!
So pissed at ABC…stop canceling the good shows and keeping the stupid ones..I’m done watching ABC..to many shows canceled..No point in watching cause never see the end..
I wish they would actually listen to their viewers. .dam..and they left the show with so many potential story lines..The alien entity took all the kids and the main character..r u freaking kidding me!!! Smh..
This was the dumbest show on TV. It started out good, but it’s just stupid because get a load of this:
You discover that ALL the kids of highranking military and government personnel is been taken over by some type of alien, and what is the first thing you do? Why, leave the kids RIGHT THERE CLOSE TO THEIR GENERAL DADDY of course!!! Fully open to emotional blackmail of course! Where they can do the most damage by looking all innocent and plead: Daddy please blow up the nuclear plant, because I might die.
A-Fqqqqing-mazing