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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PUT THE SHOW BACK ON….. CAN’T LEAVE A CLIFF HANGER…. I’m start wondering if you guys will do that too every show…. This is Stupid of ABC Family to do. COMPLETELY STUPID.
I was so mad when i found out there was no episode after the tenth one in season 3!!! I almost cried. What happens to Kyle? Will he lose control? Who will he end up being with, Amanda or Jessi? Why wOuld ABC leave us hanging! About two years later people are still watching Kyle XY. That was a terrible ending.
I WATCH FOR MY FIST TIME KYLE XY AND I AM FROM PUERTO RICO AND I DINT KNOW WAT THEY WER TALKING ABOUT BUT I STIL UNDERSTAND AND I LOVED THIS SHOW WEN THEY CANCELLED THE SHOW I WAS MAD I WANTED TO SEE WAT HAPEND NEX WITH KYLE,AMANDA,AND JESSY,AND IF THEY WER GUNA MAKE CLONES OR NOT JEJE I WICH THEY CULD PUT KYLE BACK ON EAR AND FINISH THE SHOW THEN ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WATCH KYLE BE HAPPY
Is there anything we can do about this??????????
I love the show kyle XY I have watched the show when it first came out and on netflix with my girlfriend who said that I was crazy for looking at the show , and now she loves it I really think they should make a season four , try to gather as many cast members as possible and go for it and sorry for the spelling im on my psp driving but thats how much this means to me
this is the problem with tv the networks make a ton of money with comercials then then turn around and make us pay to watch them with cable or dish or what ever and i refuse to pay twice so i pay for netflix. when shows or movies come on there i watch them without interuption. thats what im willing to pay for and i think a lot of pepole feel the same way. these networks need to wise up get better advertising on shows and start direct streaming for those willing to pay for no or limited comercial interuptions.
When the first season of Kyle XY came on the air, I was hooked. But I never really got to see the second season, just bits and pieces because of school and work and it was the same with the third season. But thanks to Netflix on my Xbox I was able to rewatch seasons 1-3 with a cliffhanging season finale just to find out that there sadly won’t be a season 4. Rewatching all the episodes was a joy to me because it had all the suspense entagled with secrecy and adventure all rolled into one and it also… Read more »
please we want to know how kyle;life got back to normal.yes we all know that season 3 was not too interesting but that should;nt stop abc from casting season 4.
Pls am from Nigeria i want to know what happened to kyle, cassidy, amanda, jessi & the tragers so i want a season 4.
We need season 4! We need to know how it ends!
yea i want to see season four to so can u not cancel the last session i need to see how it ends
We need a season 4 plz!!! =)
they should finish the rest of the story instead of leaving people wondering what happened its not right!!
yea they should finish the show so people that likes it would finish it
i hate this i have been wanting to see this show for two years and when i finally get to watch the show on my xbox i find out that there is not going to be a fourth season…. ABC should make the fourth season and ended i was left hanging … i want to know what happens …..
Wow… talk about being greedy…. I mean the least ABC could have done is let there be a better ending… That ending left me hanging… talk about a Austin Powers situation. If that was the finale.. then the producer of ABC or director, or whoever runs the programming is no good with closures… If ABC ends up ending Desperate Housewives; they better have a new person to close the series… I feel extremely dissatisfied. I felt there was closure about Josh, but no one else… what’s going to happen with the ‘cat fight’ with Jessi and Amanda? What’s gonna happen… Read more »
They can’t leave us hanging like that. we just found out that kyle has a ******* brother for chris sake.