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.
You cannot cancel twisted there’s still so much to go especially with the last scene. Why is it every time a good series comes on it gets cancelled? Please bring twisted back!!
I love twisted, but honestly it should have been cancelled longer than before even ravenswood was. I loved Ravenswood better, cause it’s much more concrete. But I wouldn’t be surprised if twisted is cancelled. it’s just gotten pretty vague and obvious . the hot mysterious guy gets entangled in a love triangle.
You cannot cancel twisted there’s still so much to go especially with the last scene. Why is it every time a good series comes on it gets cancelled? Please bring twisted back!!
pleasee bring twisted back!!!!!!!! i like pretty little lairs also but twisted is the best show ever!!!!!
TWISTED is the best. You’ll be making a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE! mistake if you don’t renew it. This show is the ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Bring Twisted back. A lot of us are already frustrated with the cancellation of Ravenswood. I enjoy watching both of these shows with my teenagers.
Please bring the show back I loved ravenswood and was really mad that they didn’t bring that show back so please don’t end this show it was left on a Clift hanger.
Plz bring back twisted for season 2!! I really like this show and it seems like every new show I’m interested in they cancel. I dont have cable so I watch most my shows on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon prime… I think many people do.. I just hope that isnt the reason why the ratings are so low..?
ABC needs to stop starting shows..while then ending them on such cliffhanger as its just not fair. Maybe they should try a different air time as that might be a big problem with the show as well..
Mill b soooo mad if twisted dnt come bak on in june.. that is my favorite show I watched it every week .. plz dnt cancel rhe show I will b heart broken nd we all were left with cliff hangers like u cant sdo that for real
Please don’t take it off I love this show it is getting so good I hate when I am getting in to the shows abc take them off please keep this show going bring it back in June please
They cant cancel twisted! Not after that cliffhanger! And what about Danny and Jo’s relationship? What about the gun shot?? At least give us another season to answer all the cliffhangers.
Please do not cancel this show….. being a single mom this is one thing me a my daughter like to do together is watching TWISTED on my day off. She really like this show as do I so please give us one more season at least…. Thank You!
I hope it’s not cancelled! It’s one of the shows I like to watch and I was looking forward to the second season. Seems every time I get into a show they pull the plug. This is why I’ll wait for a show to run it’s course and watch the entire series on Netflix. At least then I know how long the show runs.
I believe ABC should continue the show Twisted. I honestly love that show. And i was looking forward to watching the next season because of the way it ended. It was pretty confusing but interesting. When all these people were connected like Jo and that guy are brothers and sister.
please bring this show back. every show I like gets cancelled just because I dont watch when its actually aired I have to dvr my shows to watch them. u showed included those people in who watches and who dont. not everybody can sit and watch a show when it comes on. we have other stuff to do that dont mean we dont want to see it.
I personally LOVE Twisted! Unfortunately ABC has a bad habit of starting up addicting shows and canceling them on crazy cliffhangers. #BadABC I have to wonder if ABC is able to count online views and DVR recordings in their viewer ratings as well? I mean the world has changed, people don’t watch live TV a large percentage of the time…in other words time to get with the program ABC! I know some people blame this possible cancellation on the Jo/Danny/Lacey triangle, but personally I believe it has more to do with it’s time slot. I mean it’s on the same… Read more »
I so agree with you! I think it indeed matters that Supernatural is on the same time as Twisted. They can’t do it to us to do such a cliffhanger and not make a second season. If abc doesn’t want to make a second season, then why make such a huge cliffhanger and leave us with so many questions?! I think the last episode was so good, the storyline was wel thought through and the relationship with Jo and Danny was very interesting. I can not imagine that abc will cancel it after all the great new storylines. Abc should… Read more »