'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled 605
Ant writes "The Sci-Fi channel has announced that it will not be renewing its (very popular) original series Stargate SG-1 for another season.The spinoff series Stargate: Atlantis will get the nod, though, airing for a fourth year. SG-1 aired its 200th episode on August 18th, and the SF series is the longest-running SF show on American television." Gateworld has further details: "New episodes of both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis continue Fridays this summer starting at 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, leading up to the mid-season finale on September 22. The second half of the season will begin in March, leading to SG-1's final bow on SCI FI in June."
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Maybe the DVDs they released were sanitized?
The show will go on (Score:5, Informative)
Cooper: SG-1 will go on
Monday - August 21, 2006 | by Darren Sumner
Don't count Stargate SG-1 out just yet. Though SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running series (story), the show's producers are hard at work looking for a new outlet for the story to continue, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld exclusively.
"As far as the future I can't comment yet because nothing has been confirmed," Cooper said. "What we want to emphasize is that the franchise is not dying. SG-1 will go on in some way. We're just not ready to announce how."
A formal announcement from the studio and the network is expected later this week.
Cooper also emphasizes that, though emotions are running high among Stargate fans who have just learned the news, it is important to keep the show's ratings strong throughout the remainder of its run on SCI FI. "What's most important is that fans don't take out their frustration with SCI FI by not watching," he said. "In fact, what they need to do is watch both SG-1 and Atlantis LIVE and make sure the ratings stay strong.
"That helps prove to other outlets that might be interested in SG-1 that the show is still as strong as we think it is."
Could Stargate SG-1 find its way to yet another network in 2007? Or might the SG-1 team be headed for a TV movie, mini-series, direct-to-video feature
What a shame (Score:4, Informative)
Whether it continues or not, it has been an excellent series and will, for a while at least, have its place as, I believe, the second longest consecutive running sci-fi series in history. It's going to be hard for anyone to beat the original Dr. Who's 26 consecutive seasons, and obviously that isn't going to happen soon. I was kind of hoping SG-1 might give it a run for its money, though.
The creators, writers, and actors who have been involved, old and new, all deserve congratulations for really fine work.
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Atlantis started off a little weak it's first season, but it was very good by the end of it. The second season wasn't quite as good, but I think the currently airing third season is decent.
And, for comparison, I, too, am a huge Firefly fan. I would say that my favorite Sci-fi channel show, though, is Battlestar Galactica, and there should be enough time to catch up before Season Three starts in October. If there isn't, I've heard that they are doing a one hour summary show sometime.
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I'm dedicating it to the creators of Stargate SG-1.
I won't repeat people saying that it was time, etc, but they are right. Instead, I'd just like to say that it was great entertainment. The occasional technobabble part was perfectly balanced out by the show not taking itself too seriously.
So, thanks for the great show!
Cancel Atlantis, too (Score:1, Informative)
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Paging Dr Jackson (Score:5, Informative)
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>>end the show on a moderately high note
Unlikely that this will occur
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-
Don't count Stargate SG-1 out just yet. Though SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running series, the show's producers are hard at work looking for a new outlet for the story to continue, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld exclusively.
The only thing I hate more then series I like being cancelled, is being left hanging, possibly indefinately.
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It confuses the mivonks outta me.
Re:Killing the Goose that lays the golden egg (Score:3, Informative)
As it turns out WWE, who owns ECW has a deal to show them main show Raw on the USA netowork which NBC now owns. So WWE wanted to bring back ECW. NBC wanted to show it but they didn't want to put it on USA or Bravo, so SciFi was all that was left.
That's the logic of corporations for you.
Apparently, its debut was the highest ratings SciFi ever had.
I'm a wrestling fan and a scifi fan, and it still doesn't make any sense. The random shit SciFi is asking them to put in like zombies and vampires to try to make some sort of sense aren't appealing to SciFi fans and are just irritating to wrestling fans.
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Just look at the pictures of the two women. They look nothing alike. Steen was believable as someone involved with high end government work. Higgins is not.
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The person who replied to my original post is such the stereotypical liberal bigot. That type of person unknowingly fosters and pushes forward the idiotic stereotypes that make people think the current Dr. Weir is a strong lead, when in truth, she's nothing but a bumbling, bitchy leader.