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

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

I had my brownie, it's not enough. Atlantis was my first real fandom show, so it holds a special place.

Slowly but surely, scifi is saying FU to its female viewers in my opinion. But yeah, they only gave sg1 five years, I didn't expect more for atlantis. And I did like the last two years of sg1, Vala was the best. Still, at least we found out now, instead of come January right?

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

A brownie? Need a whole death-by-chocolate cake for this news! ;) yeah, scifi doesn't care much for the female demographic, and I dare say it's gonna lose this one (darn, my viewing doesn't count).

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Don't know, January might have been nicer. we'd be happy thinking what the new season would bring, but then again, guess it's best to get the pain over with, and many people will probaby yank the plug on SciFi when it's over. Don't think I can as it would wipe out Discovery channel too. Darn.