Picked this one up from news at Yahoo:
Sci Fi resurrects Showtime's ``Stargate''
By John Dempsey
NEW YORK (Variety) - The Sci Fi Channel has commissioned 22 hourlong episodes of ``Stargate: SG-1,'' keeping the 5-year-old series alive following producer MGM TV's failure to engineer a renewal agreement with Showtime.
``There's a lot of life left in the show,'' said Bonnie Hammer, president of the Sci Fi Channel.
The ``Stargate'' order is the third Sci Fi bailout of an MGM fantasy series not renewed by Showtime, following six years of ``The Outer Limits'' and three years of ``Poltergeist: The Legacy.''
Sci Fi will start scheduling the firstrun episodes in June. Richard Dean Anderson continues as the star of the show, which shoots in Vancouver, B.C. Three months later, Sci Fi will start screening reruns of the first four seasons of ``Stargate'' based on a previous deal struck with MGM.
As with the Showtime arrangement, MGM will continue to sell ``Stargate'' in TV syndication, protecting Sci Fi's exclusivity by withholding each episode for up to six months before it becomes available to TV stations.
The syndication platform, and sales of the series outside the U.S., will allow MGM to keep ponying up a relatively pricey $1.3 million an episode to produce the series, which is heavily dependent on expensive special effects.
Reuters/Variety REUTERS
Certainly seems to be accurate and I read somewhere that MGM Stargate site have something up, but I haven't checked myself yet.
