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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Why in the world did you stop this? i mean me && my family just watched all the seasons in a few weeks, astonished by how addicting it was, when we got to the final season && final episode we were ready to complain, what the heck.?! Cancel Kyle? You guys are crazy! leave us hanging with “I’m Your Brother” That’s wrong and messed up. Come on please finish it!
why on earth would you just leave us all hanging A.B.C. ? I watched all 3 seasons and now theres no ending ? For goodness sake , please have a finale !!!
You can’t close a show with a cliffhanger, all loose ends and expect people to continue following any future shows you produce.
Wow i just finished watching all three seasons like within a month and i finally get to the last episodes and you guys just decide to end it there wtf you should really think bout coming out with the fourth season
Wow , how lame ABC, its all about the money and not the fans! Make an ending to Season 3 then close out the show ! You Jerks!
Please, Please, Please bring Kyle XY back, so many questions were left unanswered, like what is going to happen?? Guhhh i’m so dissapionted, the show should atleast tie up the loose ends, because so many people (the fans) are left wondering, we are the ones who actually stuck with the show, i think we should get to know…. please continue?
OMFG
this is too lame, my gf told me to watch it and i loved it from start to finish…well I’m still waiting for the finish tbh. I’ve never been so dissappointed. I was sad when Heroes didn’t continue, but at least season 4 had an ending. Kyle’s season 3 wasn’t even finished, what’s the point of watching a series without an ending. We all watched cause we wanted to know how things would end, now we’ll never know…
Please bring it back! You cant just leave so many loose ends. It needs to come back on the air. Especially if you care about your fans.
Yea i just watched all 3 SEASONS in like a month!! Thanks for wasting my time ABC……
how can you complain about 1.5 million viewers? a writer would kill for that many books sold.. kinda of a let down for a series to end they way it did.. needs to be continued and finished.
I love this show!! I hope you guys put it up for a 4th season , u can’t just leave us wondering after all that happened!
WTF!!!!!!!
BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!
>:[ I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!
This is the best show ever please bring it back for a 4th season!
I am so disappointed in ABC to cancel a great show such as Kyle xy.
Please bring it back for one final season and tie up the loose ends.
I am surprised ABC would leave so many fans just hanging and
never knowing the ending.
Please bring our Kyle back! Please! It was so great!