Status: Cancelled
Aired: 2015, 1 Season Totaling 13 Episodes
Network: ABC
Starring: Lily Rabe, Barry Sloane, Milo Ventimiglia, Derek Webster, Kristen Connolly, Kylie Rogers, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf
Series Website: abc.go.com/shows/the-whispers
Description: We love to play games with our children. But what happens when someone else starts to play with them too? Someone we don’t know. Can’t see. Can’t hear. In The Whispers, someone or something — is manipulating the ones we love most to accomplish the unthinkable. ABC.com
Why Was It Cancelled? The show seemed to have the odds against it before it even aired, as it was pushed from a mid-season start last year to a Summer run. By all appearances, ABC had given up on it and was apparently dumping it off to Summer for a burn-off run. But then a slight jolt to their plans occurred when the show bowed to very good numbers for that typically low-viewership time of year. It sustained those for several weeks, but then its ratings started to taper off and by the time the show wrapped up in August it seemed surely on its way out. The network had already let the actors’ contracts lapse at the end of June, and that appeared to put the show’s future in question. And the fact that no word on its fate came as its season wrapped up seemed to assure that ABC was done with it which they finally confirmed with a late cancellation announcement.
Ratings Results:
| Week | Airings | Live+SD Rtg | StD Avg | Tot Vwrs (MM) | Live+7 Rtg | Cancel Alert |
| 6/1/15 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 5.7 | 2.5 | Moderate |
| 6/8/15 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 4.2 | 1.9 | Moderate |
| 6/15/15 | 3 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 1.5 | Moderate |
| 6/22/15 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 1.5 | Moderate |
| 6/29/15 | 5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 1.3 | Medium |
| 7/6/15 | 6 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 1.4 | Medium |
| 7/13/15 | 7 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 3.6 | 1.5 | Medium |
| 7/20/15 | 8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 1.2 | Medium |
| 7/27/15 | n/a | Preempted | 1.0 | 0.0 | n/a | Medium |
| 8/3/15 | 9 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 2.8 | 1.2 | Medium |
| 8/10/15 | 10 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 1.1 | Medium |
| 8/17/15 | 11 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 1.1 | Elevated |
| 8/24/15 | 12 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 1.2 | Elevated |
| 8/31/15 | 13 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 1.2 | Elevated |
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