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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Kyle XY has to ABSOLUTELY continue!! I’m from australia and just discovered it due to poor marketing, but i am devoted follower now!! if they continue the show and actually market it, I’m sure fans will surely come in millions!!
i just watch all 3 season of kyle 2 find out the you fools
cancelled the 4 season that suck. that all you people
do cancel good show thank 4 canceling one of the few
shows i watch. you have a show that you can cancel
Sophie im so sick of lookin girl like boy,boy like girl
then run away with her best friend is so old shows
that have that in it is no good no matter what you
its out there we scene it. can you just finsh the
season of kyle xy that will be great.
wtf, this is ********, i want kyle back in online, ffs rateing dropped beacuse first all the countrys did watch this serial @abc, now cant watch anything beacuse we dont live in uk, ffs guy, let other countrys enjoy kyle and u see ratings is up again! sorry about my bad english, hope all understand what i wanted to say… abc sucks!
I for one am not surprised at the canceling of Kyle XY, just look what network it was on. The network is responsible for airing Joyce Meyer, the 700 club, and other religious program who’s creators and audience reject key elements of Kyle XY. These elements include a single mother via Amanda’s mother, a gay/lesbian couple via Andy’s parents, and the fact the show often spoke of each of us having a higher potential via our biological makeup rather than via a higher power. I think that, had Kyle XY been a show about a teen who performs miracles via… Read more »
Nooooo… After i watch this series, no series or movie seem to be good to me, that’s because this show is so, so, so great!! why did you discountinue the good stuff!! Man… it looks like that i can not watch any series anymore… T.T
NO YOU CANT CANCEL KYLE XY, SO WHAT IF RATINGS DROPPED BY A LIL BIT, KYLE XY IS WHAT MADE ABC, REMOVING IT WILL LOSE MOST OF THE VIEWERS, TALK ABOUT RATINGS FALLING THEN.
DONT CANCEL KYLE XY, WE ALL LOVE IT, AND RATINGS MEAN NOTHING THERE ARE SO MANY FANS OUT THERE WHO WANT ANSWERS NOT SOME NEWS ABOUT CANCELLATION.
It has sooo many fans here in Egypt, and porbably so much more around the world. Please take into account the fans that are outside america.
You cant just cancel kyle xy!!
why is this HAPPENING?? YOUR ALL FUCKED IN THE HEAD!!!! HONESTLY! THIS SHOW COULD GO SO MUCH FURTHER!!!!!! IT COULD BE THE NEXT SMALLVILLE! AND THAT WENT ON FOR LIKE 8 SEASONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I`m from Romania, they started airing Kyle XY here just this year, around March… It`s a wonderful TV show… I can`t believe it will end so abruptly… maybe it has only 1.5 milions of fans in the USA… but what about in the whole world?
How could you even consider cancelling the FABULOUS tv series of Kyle XY.. even down here in australia we LOVE the show and i would recomend the continuation of the show. Profits will easily follow. If someone disliked this tv series they are anhedonic. This show needs to continue.. cmon pplz
I do not agree with the cancellation, therefore, watch kyle xy is very healthy and is not a continuation or the end is a bit unfair to the fans …
PLEASE….ABC….PUT IN SOME EXTRA FUNDS IF U CAN… N RESTART THE SHOW…
ALL D VIEWERS ARE SO EXCITEDLY WAITING FOR SEASON4 OF KYLE…
U WILL GET GREAT PROFITS !!
PLEASE DONT SHUT IT DOWN
I JUST LOVE D STORYLINE..
like others sad, bring it back !!! c´mon its like money was a trouble for you abc..
the shows must be continue a season 4
INSANE! Kyle xy is easily in my top 4 shows (including Doctor who, eureka, heroes, pushing daisies, gossip girl, and 30 rock) and if they cancel it its like cancelling a big hit like heroes or any of the other ones i’ve listed (i know pushing daisies got cancelled but at least it won awards). All i can do is asked that it be brought back. This (and gossip girl) is the only other show that me and my brother share, we always got to talk together about it where as if i tlked to him about any other show… Read more »
what the **** they have to do some closer to it