Stargate SG-1: The rumors are flying!

[Bark]

Alright, now remember rumors are rumors. However, I figured that I would share the news with a grain of salt before you hear it elsewhere, and your head explodes or something.

Remember, THERE IS NO OFFICIAL WORD yet.

With that said, the rumor is that:

--Sci Fi is cancelling "Stargate SG-1"

--Sci Fi is not cancelling "Stargate Atlantis"

--The producers are looking into the options for "SG-1", like another network, a movie, kill it, etc.

I have two sources that people have forwarded me. I could not access the first link, but did the second.

"Page Cannot Be Displayed" link (http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/istargate_sg-1i_cancelled_iatlan.shtml)

I did read this one. (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6364450.html?display=Breaking+News)

[TrixieB]

NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was just really getting into Ben Browder and Claudia Black. I like Beau Bridges, but so far in this show he hasn't done much for me. I think that they have shown that they can still make it with major cast changes. I hope that it doesn't go away any time soon. I like Atlantis, but I don't have the same affection for it that I do for SG-1.

[Bark]

Sci Fi just confirmed it. (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=37607)

[TrixieB]

Well, damn!

15 more episodes to wrap things up. I hope that they do something worthy of the show. It's been a fabulous run.

[DaForce]

Alright, now remember rumors are rumors. However, I figured that I would share the news with a grain of salt before you hear it elsewhere, and your head explodes or something.

Remember, THERE IS NO OFFICIAL WORD yet.

With that said, the rumor is that:

--Sci Fi is cancelling "Stargate SG-1"

--Sci Fi is not cancelling "Stargate Atlantis"

--The producers are looking into the options for "SG-1", like another network, a movie, kill it, etc.

I have two sources that people have forwarded me. I could not access the first link, but did the second.

"Page Cannot Be Displayed" link (http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/istargate_sg-1i_cancelled_iatlan.shtml)

I did read this one. (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6364450.html?display=Breaking+News)



Here's that first link for ya:

Stargate SG-1 cancelled, Atlantis renewed
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Monday - August 21, 2006 | by Darren Sumner
http://www.gateworld.net/graphics/clear.gifhttp://www.gateworld.net/news/graphics/sg1_backs.jpg The future of Stargate is in question today, as SCI FI Channel (http://www.scifi.com/) has cancelled the long-running Stargate SG-1, Multichannel News (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6364450.html?display=Breaking+News) reported today and a GateWorld source has confirmed. The news regrettably follows the airing of the show's milestone two-hundredth episode (http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s10/1006.shtml) on Friday.

Stargate Atlantis, meanwhile, has been renewed for a fourth season, with the network hoping to see that the spin-off series can stand alone, according to a source.

SG-1 has struggled in the ratings all summer, with the record-breaking tenth season premiering with a 1.4 household rating -- down more than 20 percent from last season's average. After a brief climb to a 1.6 in its second week, the show fell to a 1.3 in week four.

Viewers and production personnel alike have blamed a number of factors for the show's dramatically lower ratings, from SCI FI and Sony's lack of promotion to the removal of anchor show Battlestar Galactica from the Friday night line-up, to new competition from such shows as USA's hit Monk.

Though also down significantly in the ratings this summer, Atlantis has consistently scored better than SG-1.

"Studio executives are working to identify an alternative outlet for Stargate SG-1," Multichannel News said, citing sources close to the production.

Stargate SG-1 premiered on Showtime in the United States in July, 1997, where it aired for five years before the pay cable network cancelled it. In 2002 MGM brokered a deal to continue production and move the show to SCI FI Channel, where it became the cable channel's biggest hit and aired ten times per week in reruns.

In addition to holding the record for the longest-running science fiction series ever produced in North America, the series is largely responsible for making SCI FI a Top 10 cable network. Though the writers intended to end the show several times, its larger, newfound audience on basic cable rejuvinated the series, extending its life far beyond the average science fiction series.

Series lead Richard Dean Anderson left the show in 2004, to be replaced by Ben Browder and Beau Bridges when the show relaunched in a new creative direction in Season Nine (http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s9/index.shtml). Ratings remained strong, though no longer at their historic peak. The show's producers had even intended to rebrand the show Stargate Command, but SCI FI ultimately opted to stick with the established SG-1 name.

Ironically, this is the first year since Season Four (http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/index.shtml) that plans were already in place, both creatively and in signed actor contracts, for another year. The show has lived on year-to-year since moving to SCI FI, with the writers forced to write a possible series finale every year -- only to find the show renewed once again.

Following the September 22 mid-season finale, SCI FI Channel intends to air the final 10 episodes of Stargate SG-1 beginning in March, 2007, a source confirmed to GateWorld.

What is to come? Both the producers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have expressed a desire to continue the hit franchise with not just Stargate Atlantis, but something new in the future -- be it an SG-1 feature film or TV mini-series, or a third television show. The benefits of a simultaneous dual production in Vancouver, with two projects sharing producers, writers, and crew members, are tremendous for the studio. And Stargate is owner MGM's flagship television property, having recently been compared to its venerable "James Bond" film franchise in importance.

MGM has a great deal invested in an expanding field of licensing, official conventions, syndication, and international TV distribution. Notable is the upcoming MMORPG video game Stargate Worlds, perhaps the franchise's largest licensed project to date, due out at the end of 2007.

Meanwhile, Stargate Atlantis will have the chance to step out of the shadow of its parent show and stand on its own two feet. Though the foundational chapter of the Stargate saga draws to a close, hope remains for the future.

An official announcement with additional details on the future of Stargate is expected this week. Stay with GateWorld for the very latest.

Stargate SG-1 airs Fridays at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific on SCI FI Channel in the United States.



Honestly, without Richard Dean Anderson, I haven't really enjoyed the show all that much lately. The Ori are cool villians and all, but the group dynamic as it stands now really kind of blows. Browder and Black work as comic relief, but nothing much else.

Hopefully they can tie up all the loose ends before the end.

[tstone]

:(

But with Atlantis continuing, and with the franchise highly regarded, there will be more in the future.

[KingVoyeur]

Don't forget, there's talk of them continuing the movie franchise...

[Bark]

I blame the Ori. They are too powerful for villians. The fact this season has had too many "creature of the week" episodes doesn't help either.

[Mobile Vulgus]

Ya, know...

They STILL keep talking about filming the "other two movies" of the original Stargate fare. They originally said they intended a trilogy, you know.

I read an interview with the director of the Kurt Russel Stargate and he said he is still intending to do it.... but he has no intention to include the TV series cannon in the movies, acting as if none of it happened.

Anyway, the TV series was fun throughout and it has a great legacy.

It is utterly amazing how long its gone on.

[vala]

They can't do this to me. I love Stargate. Okay, I preferred it with Richard Dean Anderson in it, but I have accepted the new people happily. Now they go and ruin my Tuesday night viewing. I know we will still have Atlantis and it is a good programme, but not quite up there, in my opinion, with Stargate.

[Bark]

Cooper says SG-1 will go on. (http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1i_will_go_on.shtml)

[vala]

oh I do hope so.

[tstone]

Well, I can see this. Let Devlin make the films as w/o considering SG-1. Let SG-1 continue on it's own continuity. I've no problem with that. In fact, would welcome two different takes on the same story.

It's like I hope the BSG TOS backers get their continuation, like Tom DeSanto wants to do. If it's good, I'll tune in. AND I get the great new show.

Plenty of room in the pool, y'all.




Ya, know...

They STILL keep talking about filming the "other two movies" of the original Stargate fare. They originally said they intended a trilogy, you know.

I read an interview with the director of the Kurt Russel Stargate and he said he is still intending to do it.... but he has no intention to include the TV series cannon in the movies, acting as if none of it happened.

Anyway, the TV series was fun throughout and it has a great legacy.

It is utterly amazing how long its gone on.

[Bark]

Interesting side note: my workplace's DNS is screwed up. I can't access GateWorld from here. Can at home, though.

[Lavoruis]

I hope goes off the air on a higher note , than the X-Files.
What joke that was:rolleyes:
no work place internet for you Bark.:D

[Bark]

I can reach most sites, just not all. It's strange.

[tstone]

Word is, MGM will have an official announcement next week concerning what SGI does next and where it does it.

[livewiremaxx]

MGM ever say anything?

[Bark]

"ROAR!" (That was the lion.)

[Bark]

Otherwise, I have not heard anything new.

[tstone]

Same here...