Scifi renews Stargate Atlantis

[wraithfodder]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117974591.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

The Sci Fi Channel has given a fifth-season renewal to "Stargate Atlantis," commissioning 20 fresh episodes." 'Atlantis' truly came out from under the shadow of its sister series this year and proved that it's a hit in its own right," said Sci Fi's Mark Stern, exec veep of original programming. The show's predecessor, "Stargate SG-1," ran for 10 seasons on Sci Fi before completing its run last year.

In its Friday 10 p.m. timeslot, "Atlantis" has chalked up a season-to-date average of 1.8 million total viewers, easily outperforming Sci Fi's primetime average of about 1.3 million total viewers.

Stern said Sci Fi is in "a good place" when it comes to scripted original series, anticipating lots of buzz for the final 22-episode season of "Battlestar Galactica," now in production. Sci Fi has also renewed "Eureka" for a third season and greenlit "Revolution," a two-hour pilot for a proposed series. Stern said Sci Fi has made no decision yet on whether to renew "Flash Gordon," another Friday-night original, for a second season.

 

Comments

[icecream-junkie.livejournal.com]

" 'Atlantis' truly came out from under the shadow of its sister series this year and proved that it's a hit in its own right,"

Yeah..., all they had to do for that was killing of some Atlantis original characters and bring over an old SG-1 character.
That shows just how much that show is on it's own. *rolls eyes*

Sorry, I just couldn't keep quiet. I'm still too annoyed by all the cast changes.

And as glad as I am that they got a 5th season (now they have a chance to bring back Carson and Weir *wink*) this also shows TPTB that what they did was right. Otherwise they wouldn't have gotten a 5th season. At least that's how it must look to them. :-(

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

It would be nice to see Beckett and Weir return, even in guest capacities. I'd like to see WEir back full time, but somehow, doubt that will happen.

[icecream-junkie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same here. I'll take what I can get, but having her back full time would be awesome.

I just fear that getting Beckett back (which would still be great, even though I like Keller) seems more likely then getting Weir back. They reduced her role for a reason which probably was that they didn't know how to make her more part of the team. And I don't think that anything changed that yet.

Man, it's sad that seeing a dead character again seems more likely then getting back a character that's still alive...

[dmitchell1985.livejournal.com]

*nods* My thoughts exactly. I was in the Very Bad Fan group that hoped the series wouldn't be picked up, because then they'd see once again that so many changes aren't a 100% great thing. You know, despite my past love of the series.

I guess that I've had enough for now. I have more than enough canon material to work with and I could live off of fandom's fiction and artwork alone. (Those people create some wicked stuff!)

I won't, but I could.