After three seasons, ABC Family’s Kyle XY TV show is coming to an end. Will viewers get answers to the ongoing storylines about the young man without a belly button?
Kyle XY centers around a young man (Matt Dallas) who wakes up in the middle of a Seattle forest — naked and without a memory. The police call in psychologist Nicole Trager (Marguerite MacIntyre) for assistance and she ends up bringing him home. Her husband Stephen (Bruce Thomas), daughter Lori (April Matson), and son Josh (Jean-Luc Bilodeau) almost immediately take to “Kyle” and make him feel like part of the family. He begins to show incredible intelligence and physical abilities that lead the Tragers to realize there’s far more to Kyle than meets the eye. Others in the series include Chris Olivero, Kirsten Prout, Jaimie Alexander, Nicholas Lea, Chelan Simmons, Magda Apanowicz, Martin Cummins, Leah Cairns, J. Eddie Peck, Teryl Rothery, Conrad Coates, Cory Monteith, Josh Zuckerman, Kurt Max Runte, and Malcolm Stewart.
The show premiered on June 26, 2006 on ABC Family and became an instant hit. It attracted 2.6 million viewers and became the cable network’s highest-rated show to date. The pilot was repeated on ABC and over 5.2 million people watched. The first season was made up of 10 episodes and the show was quickly renewed for a second year.
Kyle continued to enjoy very healthy ratings into the second season. They were so good that ABC Family ended up ordering 23 episodes, a longer season than most series on the major networks. In May 2007, ABC Family president Paul Lee proudly said, “Kyle XY is the highest-rated show ever on ABC Family; it is truly the show that has defined this network.”
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Unfortunately, that sunny outlook didn’t continue for very long once the ratings started to fall in the latter part of season two. Kyle’s third season’s premiere episode attracted just 1.5 million viewers and other ABC Family shows outperformed it by a wide margin.
ABC Family has just announced the renewal of two shows — Greek and Lincoln Heights — as well as the cancellation of Kyle. No details were given for the cancellation but the decline in ratings, higher production costs, and castmember contracts coming up for renewal are all believed to be contributing factors.
The third season of Kyle kicked off on January 12th and is expected to conclude on March 16th. It seems likely that the network will continue to air all of the episodes on schedule.
Because the series finale was shot well before the cancellation news came down, it seems unlikely that all of the show’s ongoing storylines will be resolved when the last episode airs. Will fans get the answers they’re looking for or will they be left hanging forever?
Image courtesy ABC Family.
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Kyle XY is the best show i have ever watched, so
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease continue the season4,
i beg of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I like this T.V show……do not cancel in..guys…i’m in sri lanka…. Its a such a nice show…Plz continue….
Just goes to show, you don’t need brains to get to the top, you just need to sleep with the right people!
If you knew you were going to cancel the show why end it the way you did at the end of season 3?? I doubt very much that you guys got up one fine morning and decided that its time to pull the plug on a good show, it was planned, calculated, premeditated!!
Giving you the benefit of the doubt, even if it was a spur of the moment thing, why not commission a one of special to end the show (even if it would be a crap ending), at least the many millions of fans around the world could let KXY out of their systems!
Dear ABC Family
Please bring back Kyle XY.
sincerely
John Hill
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awww I love KYLE XY……
Plz don’t cancell it’s very good and attractive , it’s idea also is very different from all other series where heroes come from space or bitten by spiders and so on ……
if u want to cancell it u should first end it
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease we want the forth season, and there is no mean without it, because you left the end is open
Oh My Gosh! How can someone be so selfish? How can you end season 3 leaving 1.5 million fans and more unsatisfied! Kyle XY was the show I cleared my Monday night schedule to watch. I never missed a episode. I am angry, upset, dissappointed, etc! I have to go online now watch over the whole season because i love the show so much! Cut off that show “Make it or Break it! anything but put kyle xy back on!!!!
dear abc family,
you need to bring kyle xy back!!! the seasons cant end with all those unanswered questions. too many views wanna know who kyle ends up with which should be amanda she is so much better then jesse. and people wanna know about the whole kyles brother situation. kyle xy is an amazing show and i feel you need to at least make a season four then end it. if you dont make a season four then you should air for like two hours telling the viewers all the answers that you left unanswered. please bring kyle xy back.
thanks,
courtney
oh and look at how many people want it back on. look at the votes. take a different show off kyle xy is better then most of the shows on abc family any way
i’m from the phillipines and i’ve been following kyle since it started….please bring back kyle…..
ABC Family i don’t know why we should watch any TV show from you any more if you can’t end it
we want kyle back
plz don’t do dat n if so then plz end it completely
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