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 was and can still be a great show the issue on low viewers might have been because of the abc family app, issue now a days is it’s hard for people to keep up on tv shows but now that the app is up and running for most people they can and will get a lot more viewers the last episode was intense and left everyone with so many questions I’m sure, because I am one of them I been waiting for season two and I know you will get a good hit just give it another try you… Read more »
Keep it going I need to see what happens please.
I think they should renew
I love Twisted I watched everything within 3 days. It can not end the way it ended. So many different things were discovered, it really hurts to know that the show may be cancelled. I literally ran to find out if there was another season on demand that wasnt on netflix and I cant believe ABC Family is even considering cancelling Twisted….its like the best series Ive seen in so long. I pray all things work out and ABC Family comes to their senses.
RENEW TWISTED!!!!!!
PLEASE MAKE A SEASON 2 TWISTED THAT SHOW THW BOMB
Holy ****! You can’t end the show like that! Please continue !!!!
Noooooooooooo twisted should continue there r lots of people who don’t watch it but what about those of us that do we wanna see what happens and they u can’t just leave us hanging I’ve seen every episode without twisted my life sucks its like coffee in the mornings some people have to have it lolz please don’t cancel my favorite show ever
I am in love with this show! they can’t just leave it like that, I need to see what happens, they have to do season two!
Seriously!!’ I LOVE this show and I wanna know how it ends!!!!!plz 🙁 continue the show!!!
Bring the show back. It’s better then the Fosters, bring it back because it’s actually was interesting it caught people’s attentions. BRING TWISTED BACK !!
Bring season 2 of twisted
Keep it I love it so much it’s a great show please don’t ruin it
This show is great please bring it back.
Abc family maybe or defintely cancelling twisted after all
I honestly think twisted is such a better show than the fosters ! Understanding the ratings is the reason for them to keep one over the other ! But the plot in twisted is an attention getter ! Although I do watch my shows on netflix, I finished the season in about 3-4 days! Wishing their was another one! And ravens wood! You seriously need to bring that back, all these good shows that are aired, quite frankly I’m sick of them being cancelled ! This is the third one I’ve watched and wanted more to watch and to find… Read more »
Jennifer
How could you say that to the abc family the foster, its the best show ever you are a disappointment to the family of the foster how could you,
As for twisted they will be canceling that show because no one is watching it on tv and especially on live and that where the get the raitings from twisted will be canceled at the end of July
How many times do I need to repeat myself all over again it looks that bad and they will be canceled twisted for good
Love that show. Keep it! Bring Scott Sterling Hill back into it please.