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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Oh, NO!!!
It’s so unfair, first you made such a great show, attracted us to it and now you want to cancel it, without letting us know how it ends!!!! this shouldn’t be!!!
Now all fans of KYLE XY are begging you to make a last 4. season or maybe just some last episodes, so that all questions we have can be answered!!!
PLEASE!!!!
I also loved Kyle XY, you may think that only youngsters watched it but that is so not true. I am a 42 year old woman and I had my DVR programed to make sure I wouldn’t miss it. If it wasn’t for your viewers then you would have no station you have all of these people begging from different parts of the world to continue this series that has obviously touched a part of their souls enough to ask for it to continue as I am, there must be a solution to satisfy your needs as well as ours.… Read more »
this is outragous….we need closer….i want to see kyle and jesse get together…at least give us fans one more season for we can have our happy ending….
am really a great fan of klye xy ,so please bring season 5 since i have watched all the first and fourth seasons so please bring out the next season five thank you.
ABC u suck ending the show without a real end, I will be sure not to watch any thing new on your network again, you draw us in an leave us hanging, F–K ABC
Please bring back kyle xy! The first show i actually watched since the end of the OC. ABC family is really falling apart. Why cancle the best show they have ever had. I enjoy all the drama and i really want to see kyle and jesse get together.
Please give us some kind of ending. Order 6 more episodes and tie up the loose ends. Actually order another season so i have something to look forward to this year.
Thanks
OMG!!! I can’t believe it until I read this!!! How can they do this to us!!! not even a warning just like a bubble pop in thin air… grrrrr
COME ON!!!!! ABC FAMILY SUCK!! HOW CAN THEY BE A FAMILY CHANNEL, WHEN THEY CANCELLED THE BEST SHOW EVER!?! THE HAVE TO GET THEIR PRIORITY RIGHT!! THERE ARE STILL MILLIONS OF FANS OUT THERE!!! THE HAVE TO FINISH WHAT THEY STARTED. IT’S THEIR DUTY!! IF NOT, THEY WILL LOOSE ALOT OF VIEWERS!!
-BIG FAN-
you guys suck i loved kyle xy show i did not miss a show i wont watch abcfamily again
damn but the third season ends very interesting
the story doesnt end with a “fare Ending” should be a forth season
at least just let the serials have a real ending
really should have a next episode
thats what the fans hope i think
kyle xy should not be canceled
how could cancel agreat show???
in fact the best show i have ever seen
i love the acters becuase of it and the song ,sometimes i cry becuase of it
so pleeaaaaaseeeee don’t cancel the show
i lvoe kyle xy so much, please continue the story, and i want it to be amanda and kyle.
If ABC cannot continue Season 4 .Could you please issue in pocket book to end the story.I love you Kyle heeeeeee
i realy mad when ABC family canceled kyle xy,, pls continue it ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ABC Family claims to be a family channel – but is not true… they just care about money, and money. They don’t care about family shows with family values… So they get ride of Kyle XY…