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Kyle XY

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Mark_Giardina

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My wife and I have watched this program on the ABC Family Network when it made its debut this summer. Now, as the network keeps announcing, the season finale is at the end of this month. That means Kyle XY just ran for 10 weeks and already the show is taking a respite.

So tell me does this mean the same geniuses that took Commander In Chief, one of ABC's highest rated debut shows, and shelved it for several weeks until it got cancelled, are the same people responsible for this 10 week run of Kyle XY. If so then I guess these people are unfamiliar with the popular phrase "history repeats itself."

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They're simply following the example that USA has set with "Monk", "The Dead Zone" and "The 4400"... why burn out the audience over 24 weeks..unless youve got a product worth watching by many millions....if it were truly worth watching, it wouldnt be on this channel....
 
Studio20 said:
They're simply following the example that USA has set with "Monk", "The Dead Zone" and "The 4400"... why burn out the audience over 24 weeks..unless youve got a product worth watching by many millions....if it were truly worth watching, it wouldnt be on this channel....
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Perhaps you're right, but with that attitude it's no wonder some of these cable networks never draw huge audiences.

While I'm on the subject the same thing is happening to some successful shows like The Sopranos and The Shield. Audiences have to wait sometimes one year (The Sopranos) before new episodes appear which means about ten minutes of the first show of the new season is spent trying to update the audience on what happened last season. What a waste of time.
Hell the History Channel is running a show on the Revolutionary War and that's scheduled for 13 weeks.

Not that I’m being a critic here but you also mentioned the Dead Zone. After missing a few seasons neither my wife nor I are impressed with the new episodes. The story lines range from the sublime to the ridiculous. Anthony Michael Hall looks like he raided a Twinkie factory with all the weight he’s put on, and what happened to Nichole DeBore (sp)? She hardly appears on the show anymore.

I guess the point that I’m trying to make here is that there are so many channel on cable TV yet, as the Springstein song goes, 57 channels and nothing to watch. That’s why it is so frustrating to find one decent show only to have that program on the air for two months then be informed its going on hiatus.

Where do I sign up to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars and only have to work ten weeks?
 
It also may be because it was a new show, and they did not know if it would last. Instead of shooting 24 episodes and have it posibly be canceled by the 10th, it would be a waste of money. Im sure they have renewed it for another season. They just had to see if the show would work out first.
 
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