ABC Family is giving a little more love to Kyle XY, which became the most-watched original series on the network last year. According to The Hollywood Reporter the science-fiction program, which was given a 13-episode pickup last August, has been picked up for 10 more episodes. That's 23 episodes, folks. Pretty decent for a cable series.
Why the extension? According to Paul Lee, president over at ABC Family, it's due to the quality of the new episode; executives have been so delighted with the shows for season two that the order for new episodes was released. In addition, Lee states that Kyle XY has defined the network. I can believe that because before Kyle the network was known more for repeats of Step by Step than for original programming.
For those of you unfamiliar with Kyle XY, it chronicles the adventures of a mysterious teenager with superhuman powers (yes, another one of those) who has no memory or history of his past life. In the second season, which begins on June 11th, viewers will be introduced to some of Kyle's past and how he gained his abilities. The new order of episodes will air sometime early in 2008.
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5-12-2007 @ 4:20PM
Mel said...
Yay!! I love Kyle XY, and it's great to see it getting more attention. It really is a good show. There's a whole family drama thing going on that I really could do without, but the sci-fi stuff is fantastic and Kyle is just so cute.
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5-12-2007 @ 8:09PM
Bash said...
"Superhuman Powers"?
I guess he could be called special, gifted et cetera but "powers"?
He's just able to use the full potential of his brain as it seems.
This series reminded me extremely of "John Doe" and I seriously hope they will take different steps than that show which pretty much got ruined after it got another half season and right when they picked the story up killed one of the main characters - and subsequentely was cancelled later on.
Anyway, I hope Kyle XY will develop better than John Doe and The 4400...
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5-12-2007 @ 9:50PM
David said...
I love this show, doesn't hurt that "Kyle" is hot. :)
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6-08-2007 @ 4:11PM
Joe said...
does anyone remembers D.Y.R.L.E.?? seem like kyle is the high-school version of him.
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6-08-2007 @ 4:11PM
Joe said...
ok, not D.Y.R.A.L... but D.A.R.Y.L.
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7-07-2007 @ 7:45PM
teacher said...
i think kyle xy is the best show on tv. but i think that abc is wrong starting off by showing season two episodes when some viewers have not seen season one i am lucky to get abc family on dish network so i have seen all the episodes but my local abc is only showing season two episodes
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8-21-2007 @ 11:48PM
Gina said...
MORE KYLE XY PLEASE!!!!!! This is an awesome show, don't want it to ever go away, it keeps you wanting more and I love the story lines, a new one each week. Again I say MORE KYLE XY, I LOVE IT!!!!!
Thanks
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