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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pls bring back kyle!
i badly need that season 4 of kyle xy———————- just stop think’n youuu guys….
just —make season 4…. tnXXX from all of us fans!!
Please let Kyle xy continue the show. It is the most dramatic and best series I ever seen. I wanna know how it’s end, and if you reopen Kyle xy I will be very please with it and I will support all the abc family series
why you’ve cannceld kyle xy when i first saw this season 1 was a little booring but with entreance of jessi (ho i love her by the way is so pretty)kyle and jessi make and great couple and i am just curious when or if they once gone be a couple amanda sucks :)) pleaseeee just bring back kyle people
why you cencled kyle i m so so so so desaper for this news of kyle but i hooooooooooooooooooooop so so so so mutch to continued kyle pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaasssssse
hyyyyyyyy people are you uot of your mind
how you can cancel the show like that plz this show is my new life
i don’t think it should have been cancelled and even if it was there are still people who would like to see the rest of the show. if they can’t play it on tv, why can’t they just put season four out on dvd???????? i’m sure a lot of people would buy it…..
pls bring back kyle.. huhuhuhuhu i missed kyle. what happend to amanda and jessie and kyle let us know pls. **** u abc!
exactly what she said ….if you canceled a show you need to give the existing fan a last episode or two for closure.
why did ABC cancel season 4?.KYLE XY is the best series i’ve ever watched.i love and miss it. please change your minds for it is not an ordinary movie.i miss you kyle.
please bring back kyle xy at least to give us closure. i can’t stand when things aren’t finished……and Kyle was not finished…….
am a realy huge fan of kyle and are they outda their mind you cant cancell a show like tha.i live in botswana and like the show a lot, alot mean like snoop dog liken weed.
This is stupid. You build a plotline and then give us nothing! I discovered the show only a week ago. I was so addicted to it, I watched all episodes in one week. When I saw S03E10 I was excited to see the next season. I looked for dates when it would kick off, but all I found was the very sad news that ABC decided to cancel the show!! This was one of the best shows I ever saw. All the emotion that it brought up… And now it’s gone… ABC, u suck!
Are you serious people?? I just finished watcing season 3 expecting there would be at least a fourth one….I can honestly say this is the only american show that did not let me down from the very beginning to the “let’s say it” end…I mean, it had everything, the caracters, the story line, the plot…everything just mixed in a perfect bond. And the emotions every single episode awakes in a person…it just could not let you down…the whole story avouched everyones best expectations! If you only think the fact that in the total 3 seasons just 3 people died, this… Read more »
Loved KYLE XY the very moment i picked up the first season. Was so addicted that i got seasons 2 & 3. Very much heartbroken that the show has been cancelled. Please at least lets see how the story ended. Maybe a movie could be done as the finale!
I’m so guted that Kyle xy has been cancelled!!! I only discovered it this year and I’m addicted! The guy that plays Kyle is such a babe as well!! It’ll suck if I can’t see his face each week!! HaHa. They should definately bring it back!