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

[reiko-afterglow.livejournal.com]

I have to say I saw this coming a long time ago. No kidding, I LOVE the first three seasons of SGA. But then it tanked -- I mourned for my dear show, let go of the new seasons and will watch my old ones over and over. I've made my peace, but I totally understand that many had it.

I have to just say, it's KARMA BABY for sacking Paul and Torri, using stunt casting and treating the show like a piece of crap. It was always the ugly stepsister of SG1 - or, stepbrother, given how male and blokey tptb are.

My only hope is that the movie will focus on the Atlantis family - Shep, Liz, Carson, Rodney, Teyla, Ronon, and recurring characters like Zelenka and Lorne. With minimal Keller, Carter or Woolsey. Because that would be just awesome.

I personally can't wait to see where the cast's careers take them after this. (Especially JF.)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Hard to tell if it's karma, but the meddling and killing of characters and dropping of plotlines is probably one reason. $$$ is the real reason, but the show could ahve been better, yet I still love the characters.

[reiko-afterglow.livejournal.com]

Same here. The only reason why I continue to watch occaisionally is my love for the team and Beckett. :(