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.
This show has too many unanswered questions. It can’t be cancelled. The show has to come back. Its still an new show and words still going around, it’ll pick up for sure. This show is definitely going to be a Blockbuster if it continues.
Please don’t cancel the show I love it and so does my friends
Uggg I can’t believe they cancelled it! I don’t think they realised how many people were watching on Netflix and Hulu, it was awesome and I thought it was a really good show way better than Ravenswood. I was planning to start watching every week they made a mistake in cancelling it.
I watched all of season 1 on Netflix in 4 days and I totally love this show. Please bring it back for one more season to give the series a proper ending. Too many cliffhangers and not enough closure. Do not put Danny with Jo, just not believable to me. He is much better with Lacy, especially after professing his love for her to Jo. Please reconsider. What’s up with Jack and his daughter Whitney????
Maire,
Abc family doesn’t care about Netflix Dvr and other stuff watching tv programming show on the abc family network means a lot to them and their was only small viewers watching it on live and abc family made the right choice on cancling it because their demos raitings on twisted got an 0.3 viewers watching and 0.2 viewers watching it and that was leading to a cancelation
I actually loved watching twisted, as i did with almost every tv show on abc family, i strongly recommend they renew the sow,giving in a chance with a second season,so many shows leave us with cliff hangers ,always wondering what may have happened or what was suposed to actually happen. In my opinion is was just as good as pretty little liers,i loved it, i really hope whoever reads this who is in charge of airing the show considers these statements. Bring twisted back,im a very devoted fan!!
pleeaaassse bring it back. I love the intense it brings:):(
i love this show plss dnt cancel it , i am really mad abt ths show pllzzz dont cancel this show :'(
please don’t cancel TWISTED I love it, it’s awesome, it should be renewed, please, please, please we all need it
Please don’t cancel this show!!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 It’s sooooo good! :/ :/ Cmon give it a chance… I wanna c what happens next!
The Fosters CHASING LIFE SAB ARE THE ONLY SHOWS THAT AREN’T DOING THAT WELL THEY’RE ONLY GETTING 1MILLION OF VIEWERS WATCHING AND THE DEMOS RAITINGS ARE GETTING 0.9 AND TOM IS GETTING UPSET BECAUSE NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE AREN’T WATCHING THE ABC FAMILY PROGRAMMING SHOWS THAT MUCH BUT WITH THE EXPECTION OF PRETTY LITTLE LIARS ARE GETTING HIGHER RAITINGS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY WATCHING IT PLEASE GO TO THE ABC FAMILY SITE AND STREAM YOU’RE FAVORITE SHOW ON THE ABC FAMILY AND PUT IN YOUR RAITINGS AND TELL THE ABC FAMILY WHAT THE RAITNGS SHOULD BE
I love this show don’t cancel it plllllssssss
This is the only serial i use to watch….stopped without a notification… very bad..please continue….its a good one
Don;t cancel the show!!!
Atleast don’t leave it incomplete!!!!!
No way! I was so looking forward to it favorite show. That’s cruel they just left us like that? Ugh i want them to bring it back.
Do not, I repeat do not cancel Twisted! I would just die if I never get to see the ending. And if you do cancel please mail me the full script so I can at least read it myself!!
Please don’t cancel the show it is such a good show and their are lots of us who agree , you have to keep the show going it will be worth it and many more people will start watching it if they haven’t started yet
i love twisted bring it back:(