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

[gatedialer.livejournal.com]

Same here, I am canceling the network when the last episode of SGA and BSG air. I am not interesting in Sanctuary and SGU. I watched Eureka, GH and GHI but I will not pitch a fit if I miss those shows, Stargate was a different matter.

SciFi has a notorious record for shows that did not last long, the ones you mentioned and others that I saw only once and then were canceled. I was annoyed when the Dresden Files were canceled as well.

Gods, I really, really hate Skiffy.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on that! I've hated them since the demise of Farscape for of all things a dirty cartoon! Tripping the Rift was it?

[gatedialer.livejournal.com]

Oh my gods, that is right. That cartoon show was mental.

I still have not forgiven them for canceling Farscape, then SG1, Dresden Files, The 4400 and now SGA. So pissed off right now.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

I didn't even have a chance to get into the Dresden Files!

[gatedialer.livejournal.com]

Oh that sucks!

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

They had started another new show that lasted 2 episodes if that. I don't think they care about the audience they already have, I just read with the new SGU that they hope to get a younger audience. Well, what the hell are we, chopped liver. We have been here for 15 years with both SG-1 and SGA, and now they want to get rid of us for a younger audience! To hell with them, it would serve them right if both that show and Sanctuary tank. Might teach them a lesson!