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 can not believe the show is cancelled. i have been a fan since it first came out……i dnt understand how they could end such an awesome show. i dnt think they realize how much it meant to ppl…..real talk if someone make a website about it i will get in on that i think we need to take abc family down……one of the best shows that station has ever made and they cancel it they have issues…….BRING KYLE XY BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am hooked! I’ve watched all three seasons in about 30 days and now I find out it’s cancelled. This show is great, at least bring it to a conclusion!
So I’m pretty ticked I just got done watching the last episode in season three just to find out that they cancelled it!!! How dumb one of the best tv shows ever I want to know what happens, how can u end a show like that!!
i think that everybody who wants kyle xy to come back should get together with all the freinds you have that actually still watch abc family and just decide not to watch it because i mean the numbers will add up. so abc family’s ratings would go down. if you really want it to come back and your serious about it you could even see what their most popular show is and slowly attack them one by one haha like seriously jane by design and the stupid liar game or whatever total amateur stuff. ALL kyle xy fans pull TOGETHER… Read more »
Omg !! ….. Why ???? I love kyle xy !!! It is a great show and I want to k ow what happens !!! Why do you guys always cancel every good show !
I never heard of the show bc i dont really watch tv. After seeing the rating on netflix, i was sceptical about the story. I start to watch the first season and then i couldnt stop. I even skip work just to stay home and watch this show. It is amazing how good this show really is. ABC got to be a fool not to continue this show. I’m gonna have to boycott this station if they dont continue the season 3. One word for ABC is… GREEDY
hey u abc family i cant belive u do that it was the best shown i was seen make the continu plz an d its a vere goo d mighel and kyle brother did u think im a foo do u???make it or i show the real kyle xy
yall needa brin dis ***** bakk menn, koolest tv ***** everr
I LOVE Kyle xy! ABC is foolish. All their other shows are so typical and unimaginative. Kyle xy was the only series I ever got hooked on by ABC. I hope they catch a clue and BRING IT BACK! Their poor advertising probably has more to do with the ratings than anything else. Ridiculous!
I loved this show plz mack a nother
What!!! No it can’t be canceled no!! I absolutely love Kyle and Amanda and what the heck ur just gonna cancel it and leave the
Story at micheal and Kyle are brothers!! Wtf abc
i love this show with a passion i cant believe you did that to all the freaking fans out there that was watching it.. i really hope you bring back kyle xy because if you dont you are going to have fans really mad at you. another thing whynin the world you stop it at that part knowing that every singke fan want to know about kyle has a brother. JUST PLEASE BRING IT BACK EVERYONE WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPEN BECASE I DO…
R these people crazii kyle xy was the only show i wAched on ABC the other shows bot teenGers Nd bby is likee teen mom kyle xy was unique Nd freah they left us wit a ending leavin us wNting more then u cAncel it idk but these people are crZio
BRING BACK KYLE XY IT WAS THE GREtest SHOW AND TRUE BLODD…. BRING KYLE BACK
Just watched the entire 3 seasons on netflix and I absolutely loved this show, I’m pretty sure some of the episodes are already made, how hard is it to complete and go straight to dvd! I know I for one would DEF buy it, I’m not a big tv person but if a shoe has me up at 5am watching around 6 episodes straight, I know its an awesome show. They act like 1.6 billion ppl(I think) is not a lot of ppl watching! That’s 1.6 billion ppl that are now mad at you ABC!
uhm, hmm that’s 1.6 million, not billion. They cut their viewership in half. The show kinda got lost in high school land around mid second season and never recovered. It got too corny and preachy. I think the show could have survived with new writers. Oh and I can’t stop humming the song the woman playing the mom sang on Seinfeld. She was the awful singer who had kosmo Kramer as a mentor! Poise!
seriosly best show ever…and is there a way to petetion it ..we really should..i use to hate watching tv shows but after seeing the first episode of kyle xy i was hooked..i need to know what happens.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!