Cancelled - SciFi Channel announcement

[Highlander II]

From SciFi Channel News

SG-1 Ends Run; Atlantis Back

SCI FI Channel confirmed that it will not renew its record-breaking original series Stargate SG-1 for another season, but will pick up its spinoff series Stargate Atlantis for a fourth year. SG-1 aired its 200th episode on Aug. 18, and the SF series is the longest-running SF show on American television.

SCI FI issued the following statement on Aug. 21: "SCI FI Channel is proud to be the network that brought Stargate SG-1 to its record-breaking 10th season. Ten seasons and 215 episodes is an astounding, Guinness World Record-setting accomplishment. Stargate is a worldwide phenomenon. Having achieved so much over the course of the past 10 years, SCI FI believes that the time is right to make this season their last on the channel. SCI FI is honored to have been part of the Stargate legacy for five years, and we look forward to continuing to explore the Stargate universe with our partners at MGM through a new season of Stargate Atlantis."

Stargate SG-1, developed for television by executive producers Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate. SG-1, which originally starred Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping and Christopher Judge, began on Showtime, then moved to SCI FI after five seasons. The current cast includes Tapping, Shanks and Judge and newcomers Ben Browder, Claudia Black and Beau Bridges. It airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

 

[Sketti]

SG-1 Cancelled! A call to arms!

"My fellow sci-fi lovers, the 'Gaters of the world need your support. We are at a time of great crisis as the Sci Fi channel have cancelled Stargate SG-1. The news came just before the party to celebrate their 200th episode! Of all the low, dastardly things to do! All skiffy wanted from SG-1 was bragging right about having the longest running SF show in history!

Now, they are trying to take it away from us! Well, we at Gateworld.net say let them try! They've taken Trek from us, they've taken Firefly and Farscape from us and so many other series! Let's band together and stop them from doing it again!

join in on the discussion on the gateworld.net news forum and join the Tissue box Campaign (in the general discussion forum). I'd post links but I don't have enough posts here

Cpn. Chris(tine) Bowman

 

[Robertbert]

Snassn Frassn Mutter Mumble... :-( ...

 

[Robertbert]

Re: SG-1 Cancelled! A call to arms!

Not going to work...It never does...I commend your trying though...

 

[Cloud]

Re: SG-1 Cancelled! A call to arms!

it's about time!

 

[PTeppic]

Re: SG-1 Cancelled! A call to arms!

I thought much of season eight was past it, tired and strained, but it picked up towards the end of the season and then season nine was back up to a reasonable standard. So it is a shame. I hope they listen to any fan response.

Any news on Atlantis?

 

[Brian G Turner]

Threads merged - looks like Atlantis is safe.

 

[Highlander II]

Yeah - Atlantis gets to live a while longer.

Atlantis is still young.

 

[Ice Queen]

I'm glad they will get to finish the season out and wrap up the story.

 

[kyektulu]

Well Jack Oneil is gone anyway, I will not be sad to see it go, but I have enjoyed it alot.

Im trying with Atlantis, it is ok but not as good as SG1.

 

[Status]

They are afraid that keeping SG-1 will hurt SG-Atlantis, but they are 2 different shows in their own right (doesn't matter if Atlantis is a spin-off). It's not fair to stop one to boost another, there are so few good ones out there still running.

I just finished season 8 and not yet started on 9, but I like them both equally and am saddened by the early cancelation before the end of season 10.

Is there anything they will listen to that might help?

 

[Highlander II]

From Gateworld.net

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."

 

[Aes]

I can't help but wonder why Sci-Fi has such a track record of cancelling the shows that basically make the channel, like Farscape and now SG-1. Meanwhile they have no problem airing some of the worst movies ever produced every saturday night, or even all weekend during holidays.

Silly Sci-Fi channel.

 

[Highlander II]

Yeah - they cremated "The Invisible Man" too.

They also have a nasty habit of running shows in a timeslot, then shifting them around w/o telling the viewers. They've done it with American Gothic, The Sentinel and countless others.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I've not followed the story too closely, but my intitial impression is that they've cancelled SG-1 while it's still running strong, which means there's every financial reason to do more with it. I wouldn't be surprised if they announced another Stargate movie sometime soon, to take SG-1 more mainstream again, then possibly even look at continuing the series again after for the fans, new and old.

 

[Ice Queen]

The problem with that is, the original makers of the movie want to make sequels based on that movie, and not the TV show.

I'm hoping that doesn't pan out, I'd prefer a movie based on the show, or at least a series of TV movies.

 

[Krystal]

It's not fair to stop one to boost another, there are so few good ones out there still running.

That news after the 200 episode was just frustrating. I'm glad for Atlantis both I want the two. I hope some thing happens and we still see Stargate SG-1 but for me personally other ways to follow it don't made me very glad. I prefer the series format. So I hope they could find maybe someone else to continue it. And I agree with Status, there are so few good ones out there why take one that have a great fandom. Hope we can see a move like the one when it was Showtime to Scifi, that will be great.

 

[Whitestar]

SG-1 Cancelled!!!!

Bad news, people, and yes, its official.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/istargate_sg1i_cancelled_iatlan.shtml

The future of Stargate is in question today, as SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running Stargate SG-1, Multichannel News reported today and a GateWorld source has confirmed. The news regrettably follows the airing of the show's milestone two-hundredth episode 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. 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 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.


It appears that SG-1 will return in some form other than a tv show. Time will tell.

Whitestar

 

[Brian G Turner]

Re: SG-1 Cancelled!!!!

Will move this to the other SG-1 cancellation thread.

 

[Whitestar]

Re: SG-1 Cancelled!!!!

Will move this to the other SG-1 cancellation thread.

Oops! I didn't know you had a thread on this already. Sorry about that!

Whitestar