'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled

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."

It's just like...

[Nick Fury]

It's just like that show with the guy who went through a space warp portal thing and landed on that living space ship thing with those little yellow robots and those damn crackers... what was the name of that show again? :)

nudity

[brap999]

The article mentioned full frontal nudity. Does this mean that some where out on the interweb is a full frontal nude shot of Samantha Carter? :)

Re:It's just like...

[kalirion]

You got me... I have never heard of that show before.

We heard this before

[jackb_guppy]

SG-1 was to be killed just after Atlanis
SG-1 was to be killed after Jack left
Now Again.

But true they now have Farscape people, so the death should be quick!

Re:nudity

[kalirion]

Oh, I thought they were talking about the Asgard (shameless bastards).

I'm waiting for the spin off series!

[forgotten_my_nick]

"Yo Wonderbread! Sure shes a goa'uld, but I'd tap that".

Re:Holy Hell

['nother poster]

Let's not go overboard here. Baby steps, dude. Baby steps.

Re:Holy Hell

[tscheez]

it's on at 9pm, what sunshine?

Everytime you threaten to cancel SG-1...

[saboola]

.. Teal'c kills a kitten

Just a thought

it was inevitable

[Yonder Way]

I mean, how could the SGC continue to operate if Cheyenne Mountain was closed down?

Re:Killing the Goose that lays the golden egg

[MustardMan]

What else is there to watch on that network now?

Why, ECW, of course!

(cue flames)

Re:It's just like...

[joeyblades]

Actually, I thought he was being rather clever... given the overlap in actors between Farscape and Stargate SG-1...

Re:nudity

[Zenaku]

Well, the Asgaard were originally much more human-like in appearance, and came to look as they do now because of millenia of genetic deterioration as a side-effect of the cloning process they use to maintain their numbers. My hypothesis, therefore, is that they have developed a painful hereditary skin condition that chaffes them terribly.

Re:Everytime you threaten to cancel SG-1...

[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed.

Re:Sci-Fi Does Dumb Again

[commanderrobot]

what? saturday was totally awesome as they showed python, python 2, boa, boa vs. python, king cobra, et al. starring your favorite actors casper van dien, dean cain, and pat morita.

i prefer the crazy meteorological movies over the mutant overly large animal ones

although i would like to see a crossover called dinosaur blizzard or something

Re:Sci-Fi Does Dumb Again

[montyzooooma]

US Wrestling has always been about the story lines so why not SF Wrestling - Klingons vs Borgs and such. Or I could actually see a role for a wrasslin-themed half hour SF show with a bit of preamble to build the story and a ten minute fight at the end every week. I kinda miss Cleopatra 2525.

Re:omg man wtf..

[thepacketmaster]

"What will happen to siler?" More importantly, what will happen to Walter!? I mean, the poor guy had to give Beau Bridges $100 CDN just to get into the 200th episode.

The real reason it is being cancelled is...

[Technomonics]

... because Cheyenne Mountain is going to be shut down. The oversite committee finally got their way. Of course, this is probably just some "Trust" plot to keep us in the dark... I hear though that there is a new series starting up, "Wormhole Xtreme!"

Re:We heard this before

[TCQuad]

In SciFi headquarters, not too long ago...

Exec 1: "Now that we have Atlantis, we can cancel SG1!"
Exec 2: "Oh, I couldn't bear to do that! I don't want to make Richard Dean Anderson cry again."
Exec 1: "Well, we could wait until he leaves and then cancel SG1."
Exec 2: "No, then he'd get all smug about how SG1 was really 'his' show."
Exec 1: "How about replacing him and then canceling the show after a season or two?"
Exec 2: "Brilliant! But where could we possibly find an actor willing to work on a loved but inevitably and obviously doomed series?"
Exec 1: "That guy from Farscape?"
Exec 2: "Perfect!"
 

Re:It's just like...

[Anonymous Coward]

"those damn crackers"? What?

Oh! You mean "dried food rectangles", right?

Mmmmm... dried food rectangles.

Re:So Long and Thanks

[ObjetDart]

Sign the petition To save SG-1

Great idea! Let's rally the troops! Online petitions to save cancelled sci-fi TV shows have worked so well in the past.

BTW, anyone have torrents for last week's episodes of Farscape and Enterprise?

Ascension

[Anonymous Coward]

Stargate isn't going to end. It's just ascending! It'll be back. Just ask Dr. Jackson...

Re:It's just like...

[vandon]

I guess the only question left is:
Are they going to end the final SG-1 episode with "To be continued....", squash the credits, and then do a voice over saying "Log on to SciFi.com and tell us what you thought of the final episode"?

I swear, I couldn't log onto the scifi forums for over 2 days when they did that.

Re:nudity

[Dachannien]

Professor Farnsworth: Pine trees have been extinct for 800 years, Fry. Gone the way of the poodle and your primitive notions of modesty. Ahhh, brisk!

Re:were is the SciFi?

[Dachannien]

Well, it's been a full decade since MTV has shown a music video, so from that perspective, the Sci-Fi Channel is behind the times.

Re:Atlantis

[Lord Apathy]

You know you can have a life on friday night and still watch your geek shows. There are two devices that let you do this by recording the shows so you can watch them later.

One of them is called a V-C-R and you can pick one up at a flea market for a few bucks. They first got popular back in the '70 when people relized they could watch porn at home. Or if they had a camera they could make their own porn. (I wouldn't recommend the home made to anyone though. Its usually just 5 mins of some dude poorly focues bare ass bouncing.) It works by letting you record the show you want to watch on a very fragle tape like substance in pour quality.

The other is called a D-V-R. It works pretty much the same way as a VCR but instead of tape, it uses an expensive and fragle highly spinning disk of death. One of the best things about a dvr is after a while it will start suggesting shows for you to watch. You might find that it has better taste in TV than you do. I know mine does.

Re:We heard this before

[PygmySurfer]

You spent seven years on MacGuyver and you can't figure this one out? We got belt buckles, and shoe laces and a piece of gum, build a nuclear reactor for crying out loud. You used to be MacGuyver, McGadget, McGimick.. no you're mister McUsseless.. Dear God, I'm stuck on a glacier with MacGuyver!

Re:It's just like...

[jdray]

Ben Browder and Claudia Black will have reputations as show killers from here on out.

Re:Soylent Running

[Jhan]

...and for all who didn't get the joke:

Soylent SG-1 is made out of canceled shows!!

(Other) canceled shows I tell you!!

Re:So Long and Thanks

[Farmer Tim]

The matrix committed this error along with nearly every anime I've ever seen.

Them's fighting words. Now wait there for the next five episodes while I power up.

Hgnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....

Re:Apparently it's true

[MustardMan]

Leave it to slashdotters to mod up a post describing where to find full frontal alien nudity, and call it informative.

With Regards to Weird Al

[Gryle]

Never record "Will and Grace" or your DV-R will get the wrong idea about you...