Spinoff shows have a bad habit of being well… bad! However Pretty Little Liars’ spinoff, Ravenswood, holds no truth to this statement.
Ravenswood premiered after PLL’s annual Halloween special and became the network’s No. 1 series premiere with and outstanding 2.1 million viewers! The very dark and mysterious show (way creepier than any other PLL episode) did not stop viewers from watching it and made it cable’s biggest drama debut, in the demographic for women ages 18-34, in nearly three years.
Why were viewers glued to their seats and covered in goose bumps? Although Ravenswood is a spinoff of Pretty Little Liars it is everything BUT pretty. The town is creepy, scary, dark (literally and metaphorically) and very questionable. Oh and not to mention that this town holds a curse that affects five families. Like I said, everything BUT pretty… I know.
This twilight zone-ish feel that the show brings has huge potential and opportunity to reach additional demographics and maybe even reel in a male fan-base.
Ravenswood has served ABC Family so well that the network took extreme measures and backed up the premiere of Twisted, to make more room for new episodes of Ravenswood. Very bad news for Twisted fans, good news for ABC’s newly Ravenswood fans but maybe some bad news for PLL fans and here’s why.
Tyler Blackburn who plays Caleb Rivers in Ravenswood and PLL had to leave the mother-show to premiere in the spinoff. He’s mentioned in past interviews that it’s a bittersweet feeling.
“That show has been so wonderful. It’s changed my life. I’ve gotten close with the cast and I’ve had so much fun doing it,” said Blackburn.
Find out about the future of Haleb here.
Tune in Tuesdays at 8 p.m. and stay on the edge of your seats prime timers because Ravenswood will continue with three more episodes in November and will return once again in January 7 along with Pretty Little Liars.
By Marysol Guzman
Welcome Prime Timers! 