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 renew this i wanna hear about the impact this has on all the characters, the incest that happened must have a huge impact, danny and lacey, along with whitney and jacks plans
PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL. I NEED THIS!
Renew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please don’t cancel this. if you keep cancelling shows, no one Is going to want to watch anything, because you’ll just cancel it.
I love this show! Please don’t cancel! I did hear there is a lot of drama around the show. Who actually originally wrote Twisted wasn’t Adam Milch and the agent Thor Bradwell was fired from the agency William Morris but the show is still really great! Especially when Chris Zylka was on the show! Why did they take him off the show? I heard the real creator and producer Nathan Folks is suing the network over copyright infringement or something? Anyone else know why it’s such a mess and so much gossip over the TV rights with ABC Family and… Read more »
I heard there was a lawsuit too. But they should keep the show!
PLEASE RENEW! THIS SHOW IS AMAZING AND IT DESERVES TO BE RENEWED! millions of people fell in love with the characters and it isnt fair that abc family is going to cancel a show with a billion cliff hangers! at the very least, abc family should make a few more episodes to answer the questiones.
I don’t think Twisted should be cancelled so soon you’ve Already cancelled so many good shows and leave us on cliff hanger regardless the numbers Twisted has fans who want to see how things go and I have friends who can’t watch it on Tuesday so they record it so maybe you just can’t see all the people who watch it, I really enjoy Twisted it’s been better than Pretty Little Liars multiple times, and that’s one of my favorite shows. Please renew it!!!
RENEW PLEASE! I love this tv show and so does millions of people ! If you cancel no one else will watch abc I guarantee it ! Please please use your brains ABC.
DONT CANCEL TWISTED!!
I haven’t seen ANYTHING promotional for this show, I didn’t know what channel it was on until now. I’m one of the many people obsessed with this show, I have been watching online ever since the second episode (when my friend told me about it). I love it, and it lives up to the title!
I believe a lot of fans were watching online like I was and I’m certain ALL fans want it back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RENEW IT!!!! I seriously beg you
If they cancel this show, I’m done with this network after PLL ends. ABC Family has always had some of the best shows on TV, but the idiots keep canceling them! If you boneheads do it yet again, you can kiss most of your viewers goodbye, because we’re sick of it.
Please renew Twisted! I loved Bunheads too and felt really bad when it was canceled. It’s a shame all the good decent shows, i.e. the ones without blatant sex or bad language, are always canceled.
Please renew!!!!! All y’all gotta do is more premoting even on different channels & Facebook & twitter so people remember it’s coming on!!!! Please don’t cancel it. It’s bad enough y’all canceled ravenswood I miss that show! I love twisted!!!!! Plus you can’t leave us with so many unanswered questions!
By all means renew! It’s a good family friendly show my teen foster sons and I love watching together.
RENEW!