It's dead, Jim: Stargate Atlantis ends with season 5

[wraithfodder]

 Yes, Stargate Atlantis fans will be hitting the liquor and chocolate ice cream tonight.

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6589329.html?q=stargate+atlantis

Multichannel reports that season 5 is the last season for Stargate Atlantis.

‘Stargate Atlantis’ Ends Sci Fi First Run After Season 5

2-Hour TV-Movie Greenlit For 2009 As Stargate Franchise Lives On In Features

By Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 8/20/2008 5:59:00 PM

Space drama Stargate Atlantis will conclude its run on Sci Fi Channel after the current, fifth season ends next January -- but the network has greenlit a two-hour Atlantis movie to run after that and says the show will live on as a network franchise.

After airing on Sci Fi sometime next year, the untitled Atlantis movie will be sold as a home-video title by producer MGM, Sci Fi told Multichannel News on Wednesday.

MGM this year released two financially successful straight-to-DVD movies made after progenitor series Stargate SG-1 ended a 10-year run of first-run cable episodes on Sci Fi. MGM and the show producers are scheduled to make more in DVDs in future. A movie franchise is also envisioned for Stargate Atlantis.

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Meanwhile, we get a two-hour movie instead of 20 hours. I can't say I'm all that thrilled that Mallozzi and partner will pen the movie.

Sigh. This sucks. Feel free to rant in the comments section.
  

Comments

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to bet within a month or so we'll hear about SGU revving up, and that they'll have sacrificed SGA for this new drivel.

[the-scary-kitty.livejournal.com]

Frankly, ever since we first heard about SGU, I expected that would be the case. And I don't think I'll be watching SGU, either. I'm not about to trust them again after the Beckett and Weir fiascos.

[gatedialer.livejournal.com]

After reading the pitch for SGU, I really have no interest in watching it. I live the characters and team dynamics from both Stargate shows and to just cancel the shows for the reasons they did or whatever reasons they did to possibly give this new SGU show their full attention really pisses me off. Everything on Friday night was revolved around SGA, now that BSG is near its end, looks like I will have to add my studies to that night.