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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Jeez… right when Kyle was becoming a badass… they can the show… Ive been a fan since season 1 and Im just outraged at their decision… They BETTER make another season or at least a flippin’ movie to tie up the loose ends…
I know right how could they do this just end it WHAT THE ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree they could have at least wrapped it up if it was the end. They made it seem like they would be back for season 4. This blows I liked that show. I hate when networks do that, you get all into a show and without any warning they shut it off. So lame.
publish a book or something i need to know what happens. what the hell’s wrong with ABC. cancelling show and not even bothering to tie it up
I CANT BELIVE WHAT THEY DID THEY FREAKEN LEFT IT WITH A LOT OF UN ANSWERED QUESTENS LIKE WTF HAPPENS TO THE TREGERS? WHAT HAPPENS TO AMANDA AND JESSE wtfffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF BRING IN ANYTHING THAT TELLS US WTF HAPPENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How could you end a tv serie like this???
How could they!!
THere has to be an other season or a movie you can end like this…
la serie es demasiado buena
espero que haya una manera de compensar a
los que seguiamos la serie dia a dia.
Y si ya no haay vuelta atras por favor dadle una final
decente. para no quedar con el trago amargo.
QUE TEERRRRIBLE POR DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSS
NO OOOOOOOOOOOOO QUE NO TERMINE KYLE XY PLZZZZZZ
NOOOOO!!!!!…. Bring back Kyle. This was a hit show… The best show on FOX Family ever!! How could you end it? (Sigh) That last episode was so intense and I’m left wondering so many things. Ok… so you need to satisfy people’s curiosity… even if it’s a movie!! Come on…. All those other shows are CORNY. BRING BACK KYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you really want all these people hating Fox Family?
Kyle XY is the only thing I’ve ever watched in ABC Family. Ironically, what kind of “family” network would leave loyal fans hanging with that final series episode?? iT was more a lead-in to another fabulous season.
Please reconsider moving this to another time slot and LET EVERYONE KNOW!! You must not recognize what a strong show this is and how loyal the following is.
What a travesty! You cancel the best show on TV, leaving not only the subject matter of “Kyle XY” hanging, but leaving every avid viewer of this superb TV show on the edge of a ledge. I, as well as all the viewers of “Kyle XY”, am so disappointed with ABC Family. “Kyle XY” is the main show I looked forward to seeing every week. I am so angered by the cancellation of “Kyle XY”, that as far as I am concerned ABC Family no longer exist. I choose to [cancel ABC Family] and I hope all the avid viewers… Read more »
I just watched last episode of Kyle XY. What is that who ends a show that way. I am so pissed about the ending. Thank’s ABC you canceled a great show, and you end it like that …. ABC Family Sucks….
what the hell…………kyle xy was the worlds gratest show ………………….. it has such a grate story line ……………………….. i love this show ………………………………BRING IT BACK …………………………………..BRING IT BACK…………………………..its need a 4th season…………………………………………….or a good ass movie >>>>>>>…………………………………………………………..
you ruined a good thing you will lose more money than you were when the ratings dropped which was probably your fault to begin with i agree with Jazzmin(by the way i like how you spell your name Jazzmin very original(much like the show)) if you had not changed the shows time the ratings probably wouldn’t have fallen off the cliff you left us hanging on last night. make a movie damnit. for crying out loud give your viewrs what they want the are your customers and the customer is always right.
how could you end my favorite show? the ratings probably dropped because you changed the program time. i only started watching secret life because i turned expecting to see kyle xy but it wasn’t so i watched that until it came on. why us? why is every good show cancelled? you already knew you were canceling it why not go to the actors and ask them to shoot a 2hour movie and give them along with the viewers what they deserve a proper ending. i am sure the actors aren’t happy. and your dedicated viewers are definatly unhappy.
this is total ******** i love that show it was so original they need to tie the lose ends together i mean what the **** how can you just end the series like that? i hate cliffhangers come on ABC get with the program finish what you started end it with a 2 hour movie or something give those dedicated 1.5million viewers something