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?
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You can’t just leave it hanging.How many people do you need to bring it back on?I think that it is safe to say that there are millions of viewers that will suppot kyle xy,if you give it the chance to come back on.Please know that many people want the show to come back on.
You can’t leave a show hanging like that. And I got news for you…..you don’t have to do a season 4 you just need to make a feature film to wrap it up or two possibly. That’s what they did with the pretender series after the show got cut after four seasons in 2000. They made two-two hour films after the show ended on a cliffhanger. That’s all that really needs to be done here. Find some way to wrap it up and you’ll be fine.
seriously!! is kyle xy the only show you find bad enough to cancel… and which other show do you think is as good on family values and moral high grounds (leave out the awesome concepts of science that comes into picture…) i have been watching shows that reflect american society and never in my sanest of dreams did i ever think that they would come up with a show that is high on family…
so abc family i am sure you would find that you have the minimum millions of viewership required for the kyle xy show to go on… get it back on air and give us a closure atleast
i was really upset with how they ended the show, I think that they should find away to show how it should have ended.
WTF!? Like why would you end that show like that!? That show was better then a lot of the new shows that are on now. There was no reason to end it. If you did end it you should of at least gave it a good ending! Ending that show was stupid idea. Put it back on the air and at east give us an ending worth feeling good about.
im in england and got hooked on kyle xy from the begining , i bought the 3 seasons on dvd and i couldnt believe how it ended so many questions left me blank, what happend to the treigers where they kidnapped where are they, what did jesse find on matts pc when she said i dont believe it , what happend between kyle and cassidy and did he destroy the warehouse ,you left me hanging so bad please make a 1 off movie to end it thats all it needs please , let me know
Please give us some answers. The story line is great and the cast is wonderful. We need more of Jessi. She is the Best. Please let me know something.
pleas contuned kyle xy pleaaaaaasssssss
I would love so much for this show to come back on. However I don’t think that it ever will. It ended on such weird terms, I think it would be worth the time and the money to produce another season.
kyle xy was my favorite tv show. plzzzzz bring it back
Kyle xy was a hit ; u can’t expect ppl to watch it & have it not come bak on, it is hard enough waitin a year to watch it again, if it was like all the other shows that rotate every couple of months it might become a bigger hit ..
Dear ABC Family
My father & I like this show so much. I kept voting for it to stay on tv for a long time. Our favorites are Josh & Andi.
sincerely
John Hill
I did not believe it when he learned of the cancellation of the series, I was very upset. ABC should have thought at least one in order to explain everything to viewers.
plzzzzzzzzzz bring back kyle xy on air.it has an awesome storyline and believe me its not that i watch any movie or series but kyle xy just hooked me up.and its mean to leave a story hanging like that
plz hear us, we love kyle xy .I think your main target is to make feel good for veiwers but we feel better.plz try to continue the film.U leave it hanging.
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