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| Narrated by | Matt Dallas |
| Music by | Michael Suby |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 43(list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 44 minutes |
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| Network | ABC Family |
| Release | June 26, 2006 (2006-6-26) – March 16, 2009 (2009-3-16) |
Kyle XY is an Americanscience fiction television series created byEric Bress andJ. Mackye Gruber and produced byABC Studios. The central character is a teenage boy (Matt Dallas) who awakens naked in a forest outsideSeattle,Washington, withamnesia and nobelly button. He is taken in by a family and given the name Kyle. The series follows Kyle as he tries to solve the puzzles of who he is and why he has no memory before that day. Although set in Seattle, the series was filmed in theVancouver,British Columbia area.
The series premiered June 26, 2006, on theABC Family cable channel. Much of the original run also aired on theABC network. The series ran for three seasons, ending on March 16, 2009.[1][2] The final episode featured several cliffhangers, which were eventually resolved in a special feature on the third season DVD.[3][4]
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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| 1 | 10 | June 26, 2006 (2006-6-26) | August 28, 2006 (2006-8-28) | |
| 2 | 23 | June 11, 2007 (2007-6-11) | March 17, 2008 (2008-3-17) | |
| 3 | 10 | January 12, 2009 (2009-1-12) | March 16, 2009 (2009-3-16) | |
| Season | DVD title | Set details | DVD release dates | Special features | ||
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| Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | ||||
| 1 | Kyle XY: The Complete First Season – Declassified |
| May 22, 2007[5] | August 4, 2008[6] | December 3, 2008[7] |
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| 2 | Kyle XY: The Complete Second Season – Revelations |
| December 30, 2008[8] | N/A | N/A |
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| Kyle XY: The Complete Second Season – Revelations |
| N/A | N/A | March 11, 2009[9] |
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| 3 | Kyle XY: The Complete Third Season – Full Disclosure |
| N/A | N/A | November 4, 2009[10] |
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| Kyle XY: The Complete Third and Final Season |
| December 22, 2009[11] | N/A | N/A |
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Kyle XY wasABC Family channel's highest-rated original series from June 2006 to July 2008; this position was eclipsed by the series premiere ofThe Secret Life of the American Teenager, which brought in 2.8 million viewers.[12] The third-season premiere was 1.5 million total viewers, down 33 percent from the second-season opener,[2][13] and most ABC Family shows significantly outperformed the show.[2] The second episode slid to 1.426 million viewers.[14]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| 2006 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Summer Series | Kyle XY | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV Show: Drama | Kyle XY | Nominated | |
| Choice TV: Breakout | Matt Dallas | Nominated | |||
| TCA Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming | Kyle XY | Won | [15][16] | |
| Artios Award | Best Children's TV Programming | Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer, Wendy O'Brien, Coreen Mayrs and Heike Brandstatter (Canadian casting) | Nominated | [17] | |
| Saturn Awards | Best Actor in a Television Program | Matt Dallas | Nominated | [18] | |
| Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series | Kyle XY | Nominated | |||
| 2008 | Saturn Awards | Best Actor on Television | Matt Dallas | Nominated | [19] |
| Best Supporting Actress on Television | Jaimie Alexander | Nominated | |||
| Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series | Kyle XY | Nominated | |||
| GLAAD Media Award | Individual Episode (in a Series without a Regular LGBT Character) | "Free To Be You and Me" | Nominated | [20] |
Two novels based on the series have been published, both written by S. G. Wilkins. The first,Kyle XY: Nowhere to Hide, concerns Kyle's first Halloween, while the second,Kyle XY: Under the Radar, concerns the school's election for student president, with Kyle as a candidate.
The music supervisor for the show was Chris Mollere. Michael Suby wrote the opening theme, and most of the score and cues; none of his work appeared on the soundtrack album, which was released in 2007.
Kyle XY featured an onlinealternate reality game during the first season in which players were "invited" to help solve the mystery of Kyle's actual identity. ABC Family and Touchstone hosted a website by the fictional business The Mada Corporation[21] that served as the game'srabbit hole introducing players to the in-game universe, but the project ended during the second season.
