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.
Please don’t cancel it because you have done this to me again and I hate it when I was watching the lying game and canceled it and they left it off at the wrong time.
Also a grandmother and love the show. Please Keep
Don’t cancel it ! Yall keep doing that everytime I like a show ! Just because the views are low don’t mean people don’t watch , sometimes you have to catch up later.
My whole family loves this show when we heard this our jaws dropped it was so intense on the finale we want to see what is next!
Please don’t cancel twisted because everyone in my high school and my county loves it and we even have a talk show in my school every Wednesday so please don’t cancel twisted pleaseeeeeeeeeeee
Please do not cancel twisted please I love this show everyone in my high school loves this show we have a talk show it every Wednesdays please don’t cancel it pleaseeeeeeeeeeee
Please don’t can cancel the show, me and my mom love watching it together.
Please don’t cancel it!
Pleasse DO NOT cancel Twisted!!! It is the best show on ABCFamily. Do not give up on a show just because peoples might have been busy that day. Please its bad enough my other shows never got renewed
Don’t cancel this show !!!!!!’
Dont cancel it pleaseeeeee
Love this show! Please don’t cancel! I am a 63 yr old grandmother who started watching because I liked Maddie Hasson in “The Finder”. The show is interesting, well-written and appeals to all ages.
Please do not cancel twisted. I look forward to Tuesday nights because .of. twisted
Please do NOT cancel Twisted! All my friends love this show!
Do NOT cancel Twisted!! It’s already bad enough that you cancelled The Lying Game & Ravenswood. PLEAAAASE give Twisted a season 2!!! This is the second best series after Pretty Little Liars~~~~ Twisted CANNOT get cancelled!!!
Please do not cancel twisted and I can’t believe you cancelled Ravenswood when it was just starting to heat up NBC already cancelled one of my fave shows revolution please don’t take this away too