ABC Family high on 'Kyle'
Net okays second season for sci-fier
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Cabler has renewed the series, greenlighting at least 13 episodes from Touchstone Television and Benderspink. One-hour stars Matt Dallas as a mysterious teen who is naive to the world around him.
"Kyle" has overachieved for both ABC Family and ABC. Latter had initially agreed to a promotional four-episode run and later opted to run the entire 10-episode season (Daily Variety, Aug. 1). Agreement marks one of the only times a broadcaster has repurposed an entire season of a cable show; ABC signed up for a second window to USA Network's "Monk" in 2002.
Six episodes into the first season, "Kyle" ranks as ABC Family's most-watched original series among overall viewers (2.1 million), adults 18-34 (336,000) and adults 18-49 (793,000).
Meanwhile on ABC, drama has been finishing first in its time period in the key 18-49 demo. Alphabet's Friday repeats have drawn an average of 4.6 million overall viewers (1.8 million in 18-49), up 17% from the time period average a year ago. A rep for ABC Family said there has been no decision regarding continued repurposing on ABC for "Kyle's" second season.
Eric Bress and J. Mackeye Gruber wrote the original pilot and exec produce alongside Chris Bender, J.C. Spink and David Himmelfarb. Marguerite McIntyre, Bruce Thomas, April Matson and Jean-Luc Bilodeau also star.
"Kyle" is the third drama to make it to a second cycle on ABC Family. Lionsgate TV's teen drama "Wildfire" will enter season three next year, and Sony Pictures TV's mother-daughter show "Beautiful People" ran for two seasons before production shuttered.
