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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ABC just cares about how much $$$$ they make and not about their viewers. You are so wrong to end Kyle XY like that. Stop yhinking about yourselves.
damnit!, i watch the show everyweek but i live in australia and havta watch it on the internet bcus we get shows like… 8 months late.. DAMNIT! i wish i coulda raised the ratings!
I hated when good shows have cliffhangers. Kyle XY should have a good ending, not a story with an unfinished story. I want the show to be finish in season 4 or a 2 hour movie event. Bring it back.
I hope some other network picks up this show! It’s a shame that ABC Family feels the need to concentrate more on shows which focus on unwed pregnant teens or series of “animal house” antics of college kids.
Many of your shows have similar themes to older network sitcoms or movies, while Kyle XY was definately something more along the lines of original and different.
you have any idea how you will pissed off all the kyle xy viewers?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the finale ended so misserable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
never on my wildest dream i would thought it would happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it really pissed me off
just end it up to a movie then
just to satisfy the avid viewer of the show!!!!
wtf!!! how could you just leave your viewers hanging! i never like any abc shows before until this kyle xy came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is a ********!!!!!!!!!
WTF!!! this was a great show and you just fcking cancell it? screw you
I know the finale was filmed before the show got canceled but they can NOT leave it like this, abc family needs to some how tie up the ends with a couple extra episodes or a movie! This was their best show and they ended it with a cliff hanger..
I never watched abc before kyle xy, and now thats it gone.. ill go back to the cw. at least they dont cancel their shows with bad endings.
this is so stupid!!!abc family is so stupid!!im never watching any of their shows anymore!!kyle xy was the best tv show they had!!!
I completely agree. Kyle xy was my favorite show on ABC family, and now that they canceled it, there is no point in watching ABC family anymore. The secret life sucks, because you have bad actors, people preaching to you about not having sex, or this will happened. Plus the tittle sucks, not all American teens are anything like these characters. It seems to me like ABC is to busy trying to teach people what not to do, then entertain. For them to cancel a show as good as Kyle xy is just wrong in so many ways and they… Read more »
It’s total idiocracy to keep ‘Secret Life’ on the air instead of ‘Kyle.’
Like honestly?? Just the title of ‘Secret Life’ makes it seem like every 15 year old girl is going out behind everyone’s back and getting pregnant. It’s ridiculous!
Ugh, they better make a movie to tie up the ends, there’s no way they can leave us with “I’m your brother.”
WTF?!
I am so PISSED! This was my favorite show on TV and has been one of my favs since it aired. You cannot CANNOT! just leave the viewers with no closure This is horrible! Please do something. I like the idea of making a movie. I am super pissed!
this sucks! they cannot just end a show, especially kyle xy like THAT!!!! This is an amazing show and they should def put it back on! or at least tell us what the heck happens! this happens to all the shows i watch! and they all end badly but this is the worst!!!! by far!!!! i mean “Im your brother”? seriously?!?!?!?!
I CANNOT BELIEVE KYLE XY ENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE LOOSE ENDS WERE NOT EVEN TIED!
I REEEEEEAAAAAAAALLLYYY NEED TO KNOW WAT HAPPENS.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE A FOURTH SEASON!
MAYBE MORE PEOPLE WILL WATCH IT,
IF YOU WANT I’LL SPREAD THE WORD,
I CAN MAKE A KYLE XY GROUP ON FACEBOOK FOR GOODNESS SAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
JUST PLEASE MAKE A FOURTH SEASON!!!!
sincerely,
a fan who LOVES kyle xy and doesnt want it to EVER end,