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?
Image courtesy ABC Family.
love this show
I’ve been watching Kyle XY when it started back on it’s pilot episode. I was like “Wow, not common sh*t you see in TV.” I continued watching and i was like “ME WANT MORE….!” I watched the season finale of season 3 then i was like “MORE!MORE!MORE!” then i get news that it’s been cancelled?! Dafuq man, it’s a good show for crying out loud! You should at least finish it properly i mean a cliff hanger for a season finale?! GTFO and we fans will do the ending!!
Come no I can’t belive that, that’s all ther is going to be,I love the show, it united my family more!
I to agree you guys should look for more ideas from other people. It will help a lot. If you guys don’t know how to do season four then try to get people to help you make auditions try to get some episodes ideas. I for one have lots of ideas for theis show and i just started watching it and i have seen all of the episodes and all of a souden its finished. COME ON! IF YOU START SOME THING THEN FINISH IT! If you need any help with the series just contact me and i will gladly… Read more »
Is this a joke?? I watch 3 seasons in one week and i still want tooo watch more, I have to know how the story end! It’s such a stupid end, with a lot unanswered questions, that i have too find out! PLEASE I NEED A SEASON 4 <3
I just finish seen the last episode and I am very disappointed because its an excellent show it makes you feel motivated to keep ngtching it all its concept keeps you going and Im sure that if the season get on tv as in th e ABC family the ratings will be amazing Kyle XY has a lot of fans and we want to know the ending of all this. I mean life is about making hard but successful decisions just try itttt pleaseeee so we fans can know hpw thos ends… And besides ABC its not the same without… Read more »
watched it on netflix its the **** best show ever would luv to punch in the face whoever idea it was to kancel it kud of given at least a season 3 and a half with like 2 episodes jst to finish the story BULLSHITT!!!!!!
i just finish thrid season on netflix and i cant believe they dont have a season 4. kyle xy was the best show i ever seen
+1 all the way. More Kyle XY
omg i just finished watching the series on netflix today and i REALLY want more!!!! i was really into it. i was shouting at the computer screen hoping that I would get to see the family before everything ends! AHHHHHHH!!! It’s been 2 years! FINISH IT!!!
come on ABC continues with the season 4
please continue the season four.DAMN i cant wait to see the ending..your show is very exciting…
Hey I love all three seasons of kyle xy and want more, it´s my favortie series
I’m an adult and I just watched all three seasons of this show on Hulu. I agree with the commenter who felt that the show probably lost traction when someone decided to go “teenybopper extravaganza” somewhere in the second season. It’s unfortunate, because I felt the show largely recovered during the third season and would have remained promising with decent writing. I think ABC did some kind of focus group or something, discovered that a lot of teenagers were watching, and then decided to patronize the whole audience with several episodes featuring little more than Disneyland high school drama. Season… Read more »
I agree with this completely and really wish that they would continue it…I just finished season 3 and now I’m kinda pissed off that I don’t get to find out what happened…how could they just leave it like that…I wouldn’t even care if season 4 was 5 or 6 episodes, I just want all of the problems to be solved and Kyle back to his “Normal” life.
even Kyle not back to his “Normal” life, at least we want some ending, not hanging around like this
why would this show be cancelled this is not fear it has to be back…