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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****… damn ABC and all other who cancel a show in the middle of a story without giing the viewers a proper ending. If its going on like that I will think twice if I will start to watch a new show. Who knows what comes in their mind and cancel the show…..
I hate them!
awful and baaaaaad news
weeeee want kyle xy is the best show at all
we want this show we love it
damn!! kyle xy will not cont. why?what happen to abc family…they just cut a good show ! wtf
There has to be at least a season 4. Then ending for the third season was leading into a fourth season. But u just cancell it??!!! What the hell is that. There must be a fourth season
WTF!!! I can’t believe u cancel an amazing show. So cassidy is his brother? where is his family? what happen to jessie and amanda? And cassidy said the trager are meeting kyle in the rack, so the copy of kyle that they showed on the 2nd season finale is out of the pod. SO what the heck now
This is crazy!!!! Give Kyle another chance!! Bring him back at least for a season 4!!!
That sucks i lovvvvvvvvvvvvvved that show and they should have a final on dvd if writers are looking at these give it a second chance to get veiwers
I hate it when they cancel a series after the “supossed to be season final episode” is alrdy done. Now the Series ended with a cliff hanger thats sucks really bad. They should at least publish an ending on dvd like they did with stargate so we get the answers we deserve.
I loved this show so much It was amazing and had such good storylines. I believe that this is one of the last quailty show ‘s left on telvision. It is a shame that you are throwing away a fantastic show. It sadess me to hear that I won’t be watching new epidsodes of my favorite show. you schouldn’t leave viewers without an good ending don’t get me wrong the last epidsode of season 3 was amazing but dosn’t sum up the show. It leaves people thinking whats going to happen and I for one would hate
there is one way to show them. if they send an old ep of kyle, and every singel ******* fan or other tune in, so boost the wiers number.
Yes, I say the same; HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO US?!… I NEED KYLE XY. I LOVE IT, IS THE BEST SHOW FOR ME, I NEED TO KNOW HOW IS THAT GO WITH KYLE, JISSI AND AMANDA, AND ALL ABOUT KYLE…. WHY WHY KYLE XY??? WHY NOT ANOTHER SHOW, THE SHOW THAT IS NOT SO GOOD…WHY WHY???
save Kyle XY.
the show has potensial for even 2 more seasons, but atleast give us one. that can end it. that can answear all of our questions, that can make the show, NOT a fiasko.
becouse so far, the show is genius. its best.
why is it taken of? is it wiers? if it is, u have the same problem as with Heroes, poeple watching the show on the net. and theyre still running, comon.
ARE YOU PEOPLE AT ABC FAMILY CRAZY ORE SOMETHING?!!?!?!?!?!
a great show like KYLE XY DESERVES A GOOD END!!!!!!!!!
do you nutheads call this an end?
WTF are you thinking?
HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO US?!
I’m frackin peeved!!! You commit to 3 seasons and wham! I feel like I just got dry humped by the neighbor’s poodle !