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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Please bring it back or at least have five episodes to complete it i want to see how it will end and how Amanda get back to kyle.
Please the kyle xy is an incredible science fiction serie that we haven’t seen like it before return it to us there is still a lot of people that want to see it and that likes it here to in Greece!!!!
I have been looking every day to see when the next show would start and now find out it won’t. I enjoyed the show so much and I want it back. It is a good show~ who does the counting on how many people watch? They didn’t see me watching and lots more. Bring it back..
I really hope that the 4th season of Kyle XY will come !
We are all waiting with questions.
We want answers !
plzzzz…. everybody wants kyle xy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is one of the best series ive ever seen !
not bringing kyle xy back is the same as making a crime..
are you kidding me this is so unfair please we want kyle xy
pls bring back kyle xy…it is a wonderful tv show…
On behalf of the youth population in the Arab sector, we deplore on ABC Family cut and the abolition of the follow-up imaging of this series wonderful and unique without warning and this is a terrible shame and a cause for anger deep we interaction with the events drama interesting and after three seasons at the end we all across The world to follow what happens then, if the channel announces stopped without good reason ..??
I hope that the channel failed to reverse its opinion and to continue to broadcast this wonderful work of art as soon as possible
bring back kyle xy please
bring kyle xy back now!!!!!
Bring Kyle XY back, or atleast have one episode to complete all the cliffhangers. It was such a great show.
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Please bring back Kyle XY
pls bring back kyle xy it is a wonderful show
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