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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Well, I guess I won’t be watching ABC any more. I would hate to get involved in another t.v. series. They would just cancelled it after three years. So bye bye ABC. I won’t be back.
wtf?
you can’t just end the it now!
i love that show, and i wanna see more of it.
and its not only me.
dont disappoint us now.
heck no kyle xy is great
OMG I cant believe they would cancel a show with an ending like that!
I was really starting to enjoy it! Cant another network take over the series????
kyle xy cant end like this there are too many unanswers questions this show can be revive if we all work together i have sign the petition and i think we all should. iam hoping that we can get an season 4 before summer of 2010. can somebody please post if theres an season 4?
bring kyle xy back it cant end like this im so upset that im writing letter to abc family
WHY did abc family cancelled kyle xy
specially after that ending
I HATE ABC FMAILY
Es un error cancelar a Kyle XY,,,, me gusta un monton, es una serie muy original con mucha moral , emociones y valores humanos ……me causara una pena terrible no volver a ver mas episodios,,,,, no se ke decir , desearia ke no la cancelaran,,,,,,,,,,
i am from a little Caribbean country called Grenada, and i fell in love with Kyle XY and has not been able to get enough of it, to me this show was pure genious and i loved every minuite of it. I remember waiting nervously for each episode as if my very life depended on it. i can’t image that a wonderful show, with so much morals is being kicked of the air. I know that it takes alot of money to produce and that if hits are being lowered that the company would lose, but i would think that… Read more »
Omgee I love this show soo much! It was my fav show of all time. The show had great story lines and it always had you wanting more and more because you always wanted to know what happened. Even the last episode had me upset because it said “series” finale. They could have cancelled another show, like that life of an amer. Teen. Garbage. Its the same thing u see on every other network…I loved kyle xy cuz it was different. I wish it would have another season so I can at least know what happen. I’m too sad rite… Read more »
Kyle XY was a great show, I’am deeply angered that it got cancelled and i believe shows like Greek could have gotten the boot. Alot of people say that during the last season the show became a soap opera, what they don’t understand is that, its life! Kyle’s atleast. There is no way to best describe someones life without feeling, obstacles and family. I guess that’s why the Secret Life had such high ratings. All i have to say is Kyle XY was not just an enjoyable form of Sci-fi entertainment, it also showed good moral values. But if ABC… Read more »
i did not sleep at night to finish and whats gonna happen at the end without shortcut at intercafe cafe without any coffee then it end like that … bring it back pls next time i drink coffee
hey! you continue that it’s nice very much
Kyle xy was one of the best shows on abc family and should be continued i watched every single episode nd i think people will continue to watch it if it is still aired :).
I myself wrote to the following networks: cw, usa, scifi, fx, spike tv, tnt, wgn, tbs, and disney. maby not all these networks will try but im shure scifi will sence 8 other countrys show kyle xy on scifi. 11 countries show it on fox and 33 other countrys show it on other networks. 52 countrys, 53 counting us are kyle xy fans. lets keep writeing networks and get are show back