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.
just watch smallville
The only answer to all this is if someone starts a campaign to bring Kyle XY back and get as many hits on its website as possible so that ABC can see how many really support the show. So I hope someone is willing to give it a try
this sucks big time!!!!!!!!!!
Ya i agree with all those who support kyle xy, i have been chase this series for almost 2 years and the end just so unreasonable! hope ABC will continue with season 4
I am officially unsubscribing to ABC. This Bull***t cannot be forgiven. There is better stuff to download online FOR FREE. Better than to pay a tv station of goods shows only to have them take it away.
It’s so wrong to have cancelled Kyle XY! The last season is just plain amazing! One of the best show I have ever seen! What you guys are not seeing here is that this has nothing to do with viewers count… It has to do with the information and the positive energy being given in this series that obviously some people don’t what you to have! The exact same thing happened with the 4400! I’m so mad about this…. 🙁
hey the last kyle left eveybody wondering who kyle gonna pick. They should at least get to that part of the show and tell us all about kyle being made and ****. All they did was make everybody pisted off because now we may never know what will happen to kyle or amanda or even the tragers or if lalock is ever gonna be really in turely stopped and if so is it gonna be by Kyle or Jesse or even Fost.
how do you end a show with a cliff hanger? This is poor poor management by ABC
That is just dumb you cannot say that guy and kyle are brothers and then stop making the show i think it should be illigel or something
I am out rage that a perfectly good show like kyle xy went off the air when other networks still show garbage on air. Kyle xy is the most wonderful show ever and the rateings would go up if they showed kyle xy more than once a year. I want it back and refuse to watch any abc networks until kyle xy is back on air.
I luv the show Kyle xy. ABC plz dont cancel it. Atleast we all are interested in the ending…so plz telecast season 4…its a request from the whole world
DONT CANCEL KYLE XY
Hey from Stockholm, Sweden.
Thanks for cancelling this show, now I just have to wait for Smallville, Prisonbreak, Lost, Chuck and Heroes to end, then I can use all that time for something more creative and useful in my life. ^_^
Kyle was the only reason I watched and subscribed to the channel. It was and is one of my favorite shows. I will no longer be watching the channel and will have it removed from my package. B@st@rds!!!! 😛
hi fellas…im husen from maldives…ofcox im from a country very very far from usa…bt didnt miss a show of kyle xy….i dont knw abc family or wat ever, bt kyle xy is ma favourite series and actually im a very bzy guy and i sacrifice ma sleep and also gaveup sooo many other series for kyle xy…truly becox of kyle xy i started luk for other series of abc wat ever…..sooo abc plllleeeeezzzzz dont blow kyle xy….if u did im gonna blow all the seires of urs from ma head…..becox if no kyle xy, no abc family…………..byeeeeee : (
Maybe this is an early April Fools’ joke? I mean… C’MON!!!!!!