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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No!! please do not cancel Kyle Xy. It’s such an amazing show. I love watching it every monday with my family, we all love it and enjoy watching it together. It’s the best show ever!! please keep Klye XY running
i think abc family will not seen by anybody if they cancle the show…
don’t cancel the kyle show please….
i realy like and love it…
i don’t believe that the rating’s is down..
because i always watch the show…
altough im in Indonesia… so please don’t cancel it….
thx for your kindness…
Please Do not cancel Kyle XY ,which for me is the best show on T.V so far.I can’t imagine life without this show
This particular show has several underlying themes: the value of good friendships, why honesty is far superior to lying, the endearing, forever love of family and why evil is NOT good. So, of course, the far left, liberal media, which is degenerating and decaying the very core of our once decent and family-oriented society, finds a lame excuse to cancel one of the few shows worth viewing for an hour. I feel one of the other networks should pick up the show. Matt Dallas is a superb actor. The beautiful actress who plays “Jessie” has a stunning future. Bruce Thomas… Read more »
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THIS YEAR THERE WERE ONLY 1.5 MILLION THAT WATCHED….AND ALTHOUGH I’M ONLY 15, I AM ONE OUT OF THE MILLION PEOPLE, AND THIS SHOW NEEDS TO STAY ON THE AIR!! 90% AND MAYBE MORE DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS SHOW END! ABC WILL MAKE A HUUUGE MISTAKE IF THEY GO THROUGH WITH THIS DECISION. I AM POSITIVE THAT IF THEY GET RID OF KYLE XY, THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF PROTESTS RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR BUILDING EACH DAY. I REALLY DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS SHOW COME TO AN END! PLEASE SAVE KYLE XY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been a fan of KYLE XY from the start. If they canceled the show alot of people would be pissed. I would be one of them. That and the Network is making a big mistake. I would like to say some more stuff but better not
what the **** this is ****** canleing kyle KY
good show, shouldnt be cancelled. ABC family isn’t making a smart choice.
I know that the ratings aren’t as good as they were last year, but you can’t blame the audience after a seven month hiatus with next to no promotion. A lot of people didn’t know when it was coming back. And putting it in the 9pm spot was not a good move, you can’t expect a cable network to get better ratings than Heroes. They could just change the time slot. We need a family show that brings people closer together, not tv shows about pregnant teenagers. Kyle XY has a little bit of everything and it would be really… Read more »
I say long live to KYLE XY. I can never stress enough how cancelling the show so prematurely like that and leaving fans dangling with an inadequate cliffhanger than a proper resolution are such a huge mistake.
ABC Family is going to regret this.
We need to go to ever ABC TV station with signs and protest.
this is stupid this show is really great it shpuld not be cancelled
If we can get between TWO TO FIVE THOUSAND letters in, then there is hope.
With all due respect, Darren, I don’t think that’s really going to work. Money today matters as much to anyone out there as to the ABC Network. Sad but this is the truth of an increasingly materialistic world. Also, not everyone can afford to pay 60 dollars in three months. And assuming your plan works, what makes you think that ABC would use the money to fund the production of the fourth season? For all we know, our donations might have been made in vain. What if the darn network uses the money for some other show? What if it’s… Read more »