Last year, ABC Family introduced three new dramas — Twisted, Ravenswood, and The Fosters. Ravenswood (a Pretty Little Liars spin-off) has been cancelled while The Fosters has been renewed. What will become of Twisted?
Airing on Tuesday nights, Twisted is a mystery/thriller series that revolves around 17 year old Danny Desai (Avan Jogia). Six years ago, he was charged with killing his aunt and he ended up spending five years in juvenile detention. Now, he’s been released and has returned to his small hometown in New York. As he tries to resume his life, a classmate is killed and Danny becomes a key suspect. The cast also includes Madelaine Hasson, Kylie Bunbury, Ashton Moio, Kimberly Quinn, Denise Richards, and Sam Robards.
The pilot episode aired as a special preview in March 2013 and drew 1.19 million viewers. It wasn’t a great start but the ratings picked up when the regular season started in June. They quickly fell again but ABC Family ordered 10 additional episodes of Twisted anyway. That decision may have been influenced by the fact that they had recently cancelled Bunheads and The Lying Game.
When the second half of the season kicked off in February and viewership nearly hit a new low, despite the fact that it had popular Pretty Little Liars as a lead-in. Last week, when Twisted no longer had that strong lead-in, viewership hit an all-time low with just 726,000 viewers.
The second half of the season averaged 1.11 million viewers. Ravenswood was cancelled with higher viewership. Based on these numbers, it’s looking unlikely that ABC Family will order a second season of Twisted.
But, what do you think? Are you a fan? Should Twisted be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
8/13 update: ABC Family has cancelled Twisted after one season.
twisted is such a good serie! I don’t like PLLbut this one is really amazing, nothing to envy PLL at tall. please just do a second season or at least tell us the end of the show!!
Please renew twisted!!! We’re tired of you guys cancelling good shows such as the lying game…. Just please bring it back!
Need to keep this show. ABC family has a horrible way of putting on great shows. Getting us all hooked then cancel them without giving us a end to the story. Example: nine lives of Chloe king, Ravenswood, Bunheads, Lying Game. Seriously great shows.
renew for sure !!!!
Don’t cancel Twisted. I love this show!
Pleaseeeeee don’t cancelllllll twisted…it started filming in my townn…which everyone was excited about! This show is great and has a great storyline i’d love to see unraveled or untwisted (pun intended!).
I loved the tv show twisted. I didnt learn of it until seeing it on netflix, but it is a great show and I woul love to see it renewed. I hope that more marketing goes into advertising the show but please renew for a second season.
Please please please renew it!
You have to renew it!
I’m a 49 yr old mother of two teenage girls who have a ritual of popcorn night to watch PLL and Twisted every Tuesday. Even when I’ve been out if town on business, I call home and have phone conferences with the girls to watch our two favorite shows. We hope to keep Twisted on the air. The plots and “twists” are exciting and the characters are great. Please do NOT cancel Twisted.
Twisted is my favorite show!! I really hope that there will be a second season, because I want to know who got shot on the last episode of the first season! I will be highly upset if the show gets cancelled because the ratings aren’t as good as other shows. What does that matter? Twisted is such a great show and it deserves to have a second season.
ABSOLUTELY NOT. I’m still bitter that they canceled the lying game they can’t cancle twisted!?
please renew twisted love the show
I liked twisted hope they renew it.
Do not cancel Please renew for second season!! And what would happen if the show was cancel? Probably people will be upset.