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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me too i am so disappointed with the cancellation of Kyle XY, that thing is just incredible, and they took it away 🙁
kyle xy has made my life much better and i have been the biggest fan since its first showing and if indeed it is cancelled we at least deserve to know what the hell happens abc family the viewers that watch your show deserve to know what happens so do the right thing or no matter what you show the fans wont watch it plz let us know
**** ABC family
that’s all I have to say
how could they just cut it off???????
because that’s what they did!!!!!!
there WAS no ending!!!!!!!!
**** YOU ABC FAMILY **** YOU
Surely no way u gonna cancel it ……. plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz it’s more than awesome it’s not the idea of a hero .. but u know the feelings in this show is so touvhin u can feel everysingle emotional part u see i wanna end this i wanna see the end of the story what would kyle do after knowing that casedy is his brother !! … plz do it plz dont cancel it .. and the voting 96 % for continuing the series so why dont u do it ??
why don’t you make season 4? after kyle knows that he is his brother what’s gonna happen? you keep me hannging forever please….. do season 4 i beg you or if not say to me what’s gonna happen after that sorry for all the errors because i’m not so fluent in english but it doesn’t matter
Thank you ABC! I just finish watching Season 3 10th episode. Thank you!!
We are left hanging. Forever.
hey i just finishing the third season and you dont even finished the story of the last episode thats not good at all
its the best tv show ever and now you cancelled it just like that
its not acceptable
I love Kyle XY , watched every episode and I’m sooooo dissappointed that it’s over now…. I’d really like to know how all the unfinished storylines end up and I hate the fact that I won’t get to know. I really don’t understand how one can cut off such a great show… 🙁
I am currently in the middle of season 2, being happy and waiting for all questions to be answered, and what I read here??? No season 4 and moreover, pretty f****d up endings of season 3??? HELL NO! I think I am not gonna watch any new TV show!….
please!!! plaease!!! bring Kyle XY back!!! its the best show of world!!!
They left everyone hanging. The Series finale left me with so many questions. They shouldn’t have cancelled KYLE XY.
obviously ABC has made many people upset, and this willl probably be the worst thing they can do for their channel. all of the kyle xy veiwers will be greaty disappointed and not want to even watch ABC anymore. it wasnt a smart move honestly.
Please, Please, Please!!!!! Bring KyleXY back. This s a show with so much storyline left to tell. It’s one of the very very few shows I do watch on TV with (or without) my daughter. Once it is cancelled it will be the end of my viewing ABC Family TV. I am so tired of getting vested in a show only to have it cancelled before it’s time. And the ending???? Well that left a LOT to be desired. Nothing was wrapped up, you left us w/out resolving the Jessie/Kyle/Amanda situation; and who is this woman who is supposed to… Read more »
Every show has its downturns, they all can’t be top notch otherwise they would be no budget. I understand that because the economy things have to be cut, but don’t cut a TV show that has done tremendously well from day one and has opened up the target market audience all over the age group, to the reduction of a couple of low rating evenings and budget. Every show goes through that, its time to reposition your company and how you do things. Take on new and creative writers, producers, and directors, but you shouldn’t have cancelled Kyle XY for… Read more »