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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Please do not cancel Kyle XY. It is a wonderful show full of romantic comedy, action, suspense, and lovely, heartwarming family moments. The characters are likeable and memorable too and the plot itself, the sci-fi stuff, is very very entertaining and interesting. If ABC cancels this show, if ABC doesn’t premiere the rest of the third season, if ABC does not change its decision not to let there be a fourth season, it is a making a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG mistake. I would hope for Kyle XY to have many more seasons.
i can’t believe ABCfamily is making such a moronic move such as cancelling this great show. I started watching this from the very first episode and followed it very closely. If anything is to be said about their lost ratings; it’s that they took way too much time with the release of the third season and then dropping it out of it’s 7pm time slot to make way for some awful show about a young girl who gets knocked up. Let’s leave the Juno-esque show to another day and time and bring back Kyle to it’s rightful time slot and… Read more »
Please dont cancel kyle xy please dont! that would be the biggest mistake ver if it is done!!! damn it why!!!!
it is to good of a show to cancel! especially because you would leave all the advid fans hanging and they would be terribly sad if you discontinue this amazing show!
SAVE THE TUB!!!!!
PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL THIS SHOW!!! it is the BEST show on tv!!! you can not leave us hanging!! this is a great show and the viewers of this show will be truly distrought if you cancel it!! including ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@zbd: Season two had 23 episodes and was split into two parts.
Season One: 6/26 – 8/28/06
Season Two: 6/11 – 9/3/07, 1/14 – 3/17/08
Season Three: 1/12 – 3/16/09
Cancelling Kyle XY has to be one of the most idiotic decisions that anyone can make. If you’re not getting enough viewers you don’t just cancel a show. You work to make it so that you get the same results you once had. Don’t give up on Kyle XY. It is the best show on ABC Family. Who cares about The Seceret Life of an American Teenager? It can’t measure up to Kyle XY.
Dude, this is bull. Kyle XY is so much better than the other shows they’re renewing! Kyle has soooo much more potential and greatness, it has an awesome storyline and really interesting and unique characters! ABC, don’t be stupid, renew Kyle and kick it’s timeslot up an hour! It’ll get great reviews once more!
Ok, Kyle Xy first aired 2006 07 and 08. So how is this Season 3?
Holy crap, this is totally freakin’ bull.
If they leave us hanging, I will scream and probably cry me yes out for two days.
:'(
SAVE THE TUB!
For more information, go to http://www.abcfamily.com and go to the Kyle XY forum.
my granddaughter (9 yrs) and I are avid viewers, it’s one of the last decent family shows we can share and discuss. The values it portrays are a lot like the one’s we have and it has a very strong moral base. Please don’t take it iff.
The reason it had sub-par ratings on its opening night was because of the leading up to it. It had few, to no, advertising. And it’s on after Secret Life, which makes it 9pm eastern, 8pm central, and so on. Personally, I just turn off ABC Family when Secret Life comes on, and i accidentally forget about Kyle XY and i have to wait till 3am to watch it online.
I am sooo pissed, I JUST got back into Kyle XY and spent my entire break this week watching season 2 and the first episodes of the third season!
Where are you sending your letters to ABC? I love writing angry letters to big corporations!
i am soooooooooooo upset about this! i love kyle Xy
and i can honestly say its the best show i’ve evr watched
am not a fan of watching things on the internet
and i hv watched basically all seasons online so that is saying something!!!
pleasssssssssssssssse think about what you’re doing
if it means getting abc family, i soooo will
SAVE KYLE XY!
i’m deeply upset…
What?!? This is by far ABC Family’s best show! Come on renew Greek?!? No one I know watches that show(which has no moral standards, for a FAMILY channel). Come on I have so many friends who watch Kyle Xy, it is highly addicting and very well thought out. The time slot is the problem, not the viewers. Switch it with SL, I guarantee ratings will shoot right up again. This show put ABC family back on the radar, canceling it is just silly.