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 watched kyle xy since it first aired in uk and i cant belive they would just cancell it without us knowing what would happen they left us with many cliffhangers for example is Michael Cassidy really Kyles brother or not, also are amanda n kyle gonna be together and will latnok be destroyed or will they just leave kyle n jesse alone in the end i think abc faamily are going to make a mistake because in the start they praise the show of its rating and just now just because it had some poor ratings recently they after… Read more »
OMG! ABC are idiots!!! why would you cancell a great show that people love!!! ur idiots you should know that u have now lost tones of viewers, you dissapoint me ABC and you dissapoint other people to! BRING BACK KYLE XY!
BRING BACK KYLE XY!
BRING BACK KYLE XY!
BRING BACK KYLE XY!
BRING BACK KYLE XY!
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HOW CAN THEY DO THIS!!! KYLE XY IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!!! (not was, i refused to believe that ABC would abandon a great show like that). IS IT EVEN ILLEGAL TO HOOK SOMEONE UP LIKE THAT ND JUST LEAVE???!! THATS ONE FUCKED UP CLIFFHANGER!!!! SERIOUSLY, SO MANY QUESTIONS AND SO FEW ANSWERS!!! DOES ABC NOT KNOW THAT THEY’VE OFFICIALLY SABBORTAGED THEIR SUPPORT FROM ALL VIEWERS, WORDWIDE??? THIS IS ONE OF THEM RARE SHOWS WHICH INPUTS ALOT OF MORAL VALUES, ROMANCE, COMEDY, SCIFI, AND ACTION!! AND MOST OF ALL, NO LAME CLICHED SCENES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE CHARACTERS,… Read more »
please, i want to see season 4 of kyle xy it is afantastic show
what im wondering is.. does the network even know that there is still a following of this show who are begging for its return… 97% of the poll listed on this page states the people did not want this cancelled. does ABC Family even care?
I can’t believe they cancelled this show. It was one of few TV shows that I watched on a weekly basis. For the most part, television sucks, but was always glad to see Monday evening roll around to get my fix of Kyle XY !!!! Fantastic show and how sad to have the show end in this manner. Need to know what will happen with Kyle & Amanda, as well as Latnok. PLEASE consider one more season to show how everything falls into place.
It was really stupid how they ended the season. Kyle XY was one of the only season that grabbed my attention and kept it. I really think they should make at least one more season to finish it of, and if they do Kyle and Amanda better end up back together because i hate Jesse. She did nothing but ruin things for Kyle and Amanda.
SO PLEASE BRING BACK KYLE XY!!!
Even over here in Belgium,Europe we watch Kyle. They don’t count our ratings.
This all reminds me of the show Roswell… Both shows are cancelled too early. I think they use the wrong methods to grade the popularity of a show.
I for one is pissed….why the **** do u cancel shows when they are left with a cliffhanger, ABC has done this countless times.
They had so much to build on….Jesse, Kyle and Amanda’s love triangle. The bringing down and finishing of the laknok. We dont even know if the bacteria killed the pink fluid or anything.
What a disappointing end to a great show. ‘Kyle im your brother’ absoulute ***** -.-
NOOO!
god i cant even concentrate in class . you cant just cancel it . pretty please, besides am a Ugandan which means people here watch it as well.so think about it there’s too many people you’ll disappoint.
please don’t cancel kyle xy
Please SAVE KYLE XY
First of all… a farewell should not be a cliffhanger. Don’t kill magic in the making. This show (is and) was becoming more intense, more worthwhile, with each episode. Who’s making the decisions (and why, numbers??). Millions have seen the episodes, and even more are eagerly wanting to see what happens next? Many agree with me, and I agree with many here, but do our opinions count? It’s a shame. Kyle XY challenges entertainment-traditions in such a way we can relate. Thanks to the creators of this show, they’ve created hours and hours of pleasant “fictional reality” with the Tragers.… Read more »
They just can’t cancel Kyle XY, it was their top show and it doesn’t even make it past 3 seasons? I don’t think I can survive without my Matt Dallas Monday.