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 love kyle xy, I CANT BELIEVE THEY WOULD EVEN THINK ABOUT CANCELING THIS SHOW. PLEASE DONT, I LOVE THIS SHOW.
omg…we have to do something!!!!! contact the network…lets go full Jerico on them! send lots and lots of sour patch kids to them!!!!!!!
You are right Bill the execs are only a bunch of nuts that live in there own little world. Moving the timeslot was a shot in the foot for this great series. Lets just hope that SciFi Channel sees the ratings (at a decient timeslot) and realizes the potential of Kyle Xy. They would be about the only channel that would pick up a show like this and continue it.
Out of all the reality shows on the air, they have to cancel this one? What are the stupid execs thinking? Who watches reality shows anymore? Who needs to watch reality on TV when you live reality all day long. Give me something with a storyline that keeps you interested so I can escape from reality for one hour a week. I, for one, think this is the worst thing ABC Family could do. Not only did they decide to not promote the start of the season well, but they had to move it to a later timeslot. Why can’t… Read more »
don’t cancel kyle xy! its the best show on abcfamily!! please!!!
No plz….. =( don’t cancel kyle xy i love it. Two of my other favourite shows have finished stargate sg-1 and stargate atlantis, I hope smallville and supernatural don’t follow.
Please don’t cancel Kyle XY it is the best show i have ever watched!!!!!!!!
I think ABC should do a fourth and a fifth and keep going with season after season
because I watch every day that it is on. I watch it everytime there is a new episode
on. SO PLEASE DON’T CANCEL Kyle XY I don’t know how I will go on!!!!!
please dont cancel the fourth season of kyle xy………..
we love it so much
Please don’t cancel Kyle XY it’s one of the few well made family show on TV and Cable. My Family and I love this Show, If you cancel this show We will no longer view any ABC or ABC Family Shows I give you my word!
don`t canceled the show put it back on line with kyle xy and amanda bloom
friends please canceled the tvshow won`t do it i got a crush on matt dallas
like t.a
Don’t cancel Kyle XY!.. just because the number of viewers isn’t as high as they would like doesn’t mean that alot of people don’t watch the show. I personally watch all of the episodes online. This is the only show that I like on ABC Family…
I am so sad: they canceled this so, how could they ?
this was the most amazing show ever. this can touch our hearts directly. i loved this . this is the only show i watch on ABC. u did nothing but losing some more fans. you got to think about it again.
BRING KYLE XY BACK OR SELL IT!
I LOVE KYLE XY!!!!!!!!!! its my favorite show!! i REALLY would like to see it keep going! i want to see if jessi and kyle FINALLY get together! and if they do and it ends then im gonna be SOOOO mad!!! Is there anyway we can get it to stay on? like do a signing of how many people say that we should keep it, i mean dont they make money by doing a show? If they cancell it they will lose a lot of viewers! some just watch kyle XY!!! I can garentie it they will lose SO much… Read more »
This is ******** i cant believe they are going to cancel kyle xy like everyone else is saying im done with Abc family forever and i hope all the ratings on abc family go down without kyle xy (shocking) there are too many stupid people running Abc family im done with abc family