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.
Do not cancel my show best show ever
I loved watching Twisted! I may not have toned in every week it hired. But I did record it to watch it later. This is why I hate getting in to any kind of series because they get canceled and I’m stuck wondering what happened…
Please leave twisted on I love the show.
I absolutely loved it, is something good for new aged t.v instead of all those lifeless reality shows they keep coming out with.
I love this show! I hate how all the good shows get canceled on ABC family. 🙁
Bring it back, even us older people like it, bring it back….
Bring twisted back it was my all time favorite show! Please renew it don’t cancel it !
i love that show!!!! I hope they don’t cancel it, especially with such a cliff hanger.
I love this TV show please bring it back on y’all left us with answers we wanna know what’s next what happen so come on and make season two hit the tv
Renewed I love this show and watched it on netflix please bring it back
I LOVE twisted!!! I hope it comes back on
The cw network has their shows on Monday Through Friday and its impossible to have abc family scheduling their shows on the same time while the cw network is airing their shows too whenever there is a show on abc family or on cw network that don’t like they don’t watch it and then the ratings will go bad and then they canceled it and there is a problem
I think the show twisted was great. Of course I watched in on Netflix like most of us. They need to do a new rating system. I never got bored with this show. I liked pretty little liars too but it got old after awhile when we never could figure out who A was. I think that show lasted long enough. But There is more to know for this show. Who is the Father of this new son. Why was he a secret. Who is this father, daughter duo that is out to get the Desai…..There is to much to… Read more »
Whyyy would you guys cancel twisted the show is amazing. Also the last episode was great and everyone’s wondering what’s going to happen next. This suckks.
Please bring twisted & the lying game back to ABC family I live on these shows and its confusing&frustrating when you guys end shows on first season. It makes it tell where you don’t want to watch any other shows on ABC family…. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.