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 just finish watching the last episode of season 3 and you cant end this show like this you have to bring it back ABC Family its like ending harry potter half way into the series it not fair to the viewers.
PLEASE DON’T CUT OFF KYLE XY! MY FAMILY RELLY RELLY LIKE IT AND I DIDN’T MISS A SHOW.
Hi ABC family can you please bring Kyle XY back, please please there’s so many viewers making these post just to make them happy and wants to know what has happend in the end of the thrid season and if that can happen we would like to keep it going on. Why do you have to make us upset. We want it back, look at these posts please and think agian. We areputing our hearts on this show, please come on. I love this show. WE HAVE A VOICE, we want you to hear it. Please bing it back please
What was ABC thinking, “It was the show that has defined this network” and they cancel it. Am I missing something??? I just watched the entire series on Hulu and come to find out there’s no proper ending. I knew when I began that it got cancelled but I wasn’t prepared to have liked the show this much. You should’ve heard the profanity that came out of my mouth when I was left with a cliffhanger. You know what, I’m taking a stand today. I’ve been let down too many times by these tv networks canceling shows because of the… Read more »
OMG WTF. This is such a good show and i totally agree about the whole Eli Stone thing as well as for Kyle XY. I cant believe ABC is still running ****** shows like The Secret Life of The American Teenager (aka not educational at all and just plain awful), but they’d cancel the best ones.
You can’t end a story like that, you just to let you know i just whach all three seasons. You just cant end the story and u have to make a seasons four so me and a whole lot of people can find out what happens next. If you stop im going to stop whaching ABCfamily and so will a lot of peopl. So you need to make a new seasons of Kyle XY and a lot of people will be happy. This show was one of the best shows I have ever see.
seriously this sucks…this was honestly one of the best show’s i’ve ever watched and will watch it has to come back for a 4th season you could easily make show’s due to the audience wanting to know the answers to kyle’s new mother…please bring it back
Kyle XY is an excellent show; and there is no way this should be cancelled.
I wonder why these people always end up shutting down shows that are so good, half way through them. It is such an awesome show.
Not sure we all writing here will make any difference to the show producers and ABC Family, but these shows are for us and we should definitely have a say in this.
I really hope they reconsider their decision.
Kyle Xy was A cool show bring more season plz.
Dear abc family, Do you guys realize how many people want kyle xy to stay on? You can’t just end a tv show specially when there was no ending to season 3. If you want to end kyle xy then at least have like 3 episodes closing and finishing the show so then we know what happened with everything you didn’t show us at the end of season 3. I got my whole family, my boyfriend, and like 15 other people liking kyle xy. Now they are mad because they want to see what is gonna happen next. They all… Read more »
Chris i agree with you , i just started to hate abc family i just hate them!!!!! we need to do a protest on dis!!!!!!!
seriously people!!!! how can you do that to us fans!!! what’s wrong with you??? Kyle XY is the best show ever, and you just cancel it??? but what’s worst, you didnt give us a proper ending!!! what’s the point of making a show if you dont finish it!!! the television is so full of crap these days, but kyle was, IS, different!! it brings up problems of common people, family values, love, mystery and so on. seriously, im not asking for another 5 seasons, just one or two to wrap the whole thing, i mean, you cant just leave us… Read more »
ABC Family is stupid!
PLZ PLZ PLZ ….. Contine KYLE XY
We love this Series very very very much and can not live without KYLE.
ciao io mi chiamo maria ho seguito kyle hy insieme a mio marito e i miei figli ed era molto bello xk e smesso fate un continuo per favore nn potete interromperlo cosi io vivo in italia a naples e molti dei miei amici se lo vedevano qui in italia ha avuto successo aspetto una vostra risposta grazie ciao
you have to bring it back!!,this is the best show you can possibly find and you quit!?
you can’t quit, seriously if you make a new show you will have allot of vieuwers again, its just not a show you can keep looking at in one time , people can’t handle that, but make e new season and i swear to god there will be more vieuwers!
Please Save Kyle XY,plz continue KYLE XY,plz bring back kyle xy