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 do not cancel Twisted! it’s the best show ABCFamily has ever created! Please give me Jo and Danny, please give me Twisted!
Please don’t cancel the show of twisted we all watch that show.
IT CAN NOT BE CANCELED!! ITS SUCH AN AMAZING SHOW!
Please please please don’t cancel twisted………i am in love with this show!!!! If you cancel twisted i will be very disappointed!!!! Twisted s an AMAZING show!!!!!!!!! Please don’t cancel!!!!!i need to know what happens next!!!
Renew it, no need to cancel because if they do, they will leave viewers assuming what happened at the end of the finale. That’s dumb to leave people speculating on what happened or is going to happened. Ravenswood was great I don’t see why that had to be canceled, so no RENEW TWISTED FOR A SECOND SEASON because not everybody watch the same thing but some people love it and some hate but you can’t speak for others.
Please don’t cancel Twisted! I love this show! It’s really exciting and with so much love. If this show is really canceled, I’m freaking totally out. It ended with a cliffhanger. I don’t like something! Please renew it for a second season! Pleeeaaasseee!!!!
ABC Family showed have kept The Lying Game, but ended up cancelling it for Twisted and now, I hear, that they might cancel Twisted, they better now, it would be a huge mistake to cancel the only two TV Series on ABC Family that are actually worth watching, other than The Fosters. Pretty Little Liars is just a boring, lame TV Show. Melissa & Joey, Baby Daddy are just boring. Switched at Birth used to be exciting. Now, all ABC Family has worth watching that has excitement to it, are The Fosters and Twisted, the new TV Series don’t look… Read more »
I Honestly Think That It Should Be A Season Season The Show Has Just Gotten Really Good. They Should At Least Give It One More Chance.
Please don’t cancel twisted it is a great show!!! I absolutely love it and can’t wait for more.
Just look at the comments on the Twisted Facebook page. They are trying to trend #RenewTwisted and #SaveTwisted and there are a ton of them. Twitter as well!
Please keep this show going! So many good shows going away. I love this shows so much!
Plz dont cancel twisted .. i love the dhoe
Ok so I can totally see why some shows would get canceled but really this show had 1.1 Million views during the finale show. There are many people that watch this show after it has aired as well; on other sites or wait until it comes out on Netflix because they don’t have the money to pay for cable. I understand you have to have the numbers to keep a show going but maybe you should try and figure out other ways of finding those numbers as well. I guess all I am trying to say is; you should at… Read more »
PLEASE DO NOT CANCELL TWISTED!! It is such an amazing show!!! Abc family please pick it up for another season!! Not a repeat of The Lying Game
Do not cancel twisted !The lying game has already been taken out, if this show is taken away I will no longer watch abc family!