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.
I hope they don’t look at the comments here and on their sad Facebook page and think they should listen. Cancel this show. Put it out of its misery.
I’ve absolutely never had my mind blown so much by a show! I just watched the season finale and was jumping around screaming every time a new twist was revealed….I mean…wow! Just wow! What great script writing.. seriously. I would be so annoyed with abcfamily for canceling this… I didn’t even know they cancelled bunheads until I read these comments.. I was eagerly waiting for that to come back too. I think they need to find a way to pay attention to other things besides tv ratings. People probably watched this show on internet or on demand like me. Get… Read more »
give another chance
DONT CANCEL THIS SHOW!!!!! PLEASEEEE
DON’T Cancel!!!
//Greetings from Sweden
NOO! PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL TWISTED! PLL and Twisted are my favorite shows on ABC Family and I would hate it so much if Twisted got cancelled especially considering how caught up I am in it and how much of an interesting show it is. I always look forward to watching the new episodes of Twisted on Tuesdays and it would break my heart if it got cancelled without closure or anything like that. There is so much left to the storyline and it would be a shame to let a show as good as this one go to waste.
I love this show. At first thought it was for kids wrong story line
Is great. And at 71 I really enjoy it. Keep it on. Thanks
I think ABC Fam should give it another chance. Don’t cancel.
Please renew. I love Twisted!!! Bring it back a second season.
Dont cancel… Love this show… Plz renew Its a great show with lots of potential for the second season
PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL THE SHOW!!! I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH & IT WOULD SERIOUSLY PUT ME TO TEARS IF TI WAS CANCELLED. I’M SURE THEY’RE GOING TO COVER MORE STUFF IF YOU GUYS RENEW A SECOND SEASON FOR TWISTED. PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL!!!
Please dont cancel!
Dont Cancel!
RENEW! DONT CANCEL! AWESOME SHOW!
I will admit at first I didn’t particularly care for this show but then my friend encouraged me to give it another chance and I did. Now I’m in love with this show and watched it in all of one sitting. I feel though as if you cancel this show it will not only be ANOTHER good show gone to waste you also will lose viewers of ABCfamily period. Shows like Nine lives of Chloe king, The Lying Game, Jane by design, Ravenswood, and hell even Bunheads were all very good shows that needed more time. You expect the shows… Read more »