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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I can’t believe this.I love this show very much
If you want to help save the show, please go to kylexy.net and savekyexy.com! Please help us out! I love this show! It can’t get canceled!!!
ABC sux, Kyle XY was a really interesting show, I loved it like Heroes and Smallville, not less, but ABC canceled it, their only normal show they ever had… stupid stupid stupid, i won’t watch anything of ABC now.
Boykott ABC!
Kyle Xy is the best show!! uncancel!!!
non potete cancellare cos
porca miseria, non si pu
kyle xy is the best tv show ever so don’t change that …
you must be kidding me this is the tv show ever so i you cancel it, you get red of your confirmation of you channel,and you must carry out the consequence of money not me,because it is your mistake you are the one how started it not me so be man and carry out your consequence….?!
this is an outrage. kyle xy was by far the best tv show i have EVER seen. not just on ABC Family but any other tv station. this did, indeed, define ABC Family. and now they decide to cancel it and leave us with a cliffhanger? i will be boycotting ABC Family until the return of Kyle XY season 4.
Kyle XY is one of the few TV shows that I have ever been addicted to, and watching the dynamic between the Tragers always makes me want to be a better person. Hell, it’s one of the only shows that has ever made me cry. Such a beautiful show, such an awesome and original concept; with a cast who seem to perfectly compliment each other. If Kyle XY was ABC Family’s highest rating show ever, then surely the ratings couldn’t have dropped so low as to force such a drastic knee-jerk action from the network. Personally I feel they should… Read more »
estan locos si nos dejan sin la 4ta temporada y quiza hasta una quinte de kyle xy hay muchas interrogantes q no han sido aclaradas
its the best serial.
are you kidding.
it must continue………..
kyle xy is a great show. we just found out kyle has a brother and jessie and kyle were starting to fall in love. also a lot of people still watch it.
U suckers most make season four,,, a will take my life if i wont get the daly dos of kyle xy !!!!
this is not far!!!!!!!! me and my sister love kyle xy we talk about it all the time and you just cant stop after we find out that cassity is kyle’s brother! their is just too much stuff going on to cancle the show please dont cancle it just because their isnt as much veiwers people still watch the show and its not far to all of us fans. so please dont cancle the show Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRING KYLE XY BACK! That was my favorite TV show! dont cancel it now after all that has happened! Just becuase people dont watch it when it first airs, does not mean they dont watch it! No one watch ABC anymore! petition!