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

Cancelled!

[watcher652.livejournal.com]

Waaaah!

You know, I kind of thought they were going to do this. Don't the actors have 6 year contracts? I'm sure TPTB don't want to negotiate new salaries. And they've been pushing Stargate Universe, which I'm sure will come with unknown and cheaper actors.

David Hewlett's site would be hacked right now.

I'm seeing Rainbow Sun Francks at DragonCon and he'll be the last Stargate main cast member I needed to see. In 2 months I will have seen David Hewlett, Richard Dean Anderson, and Rainbow. Now it makes me feel like that jinxed it.

BTW, it's weird that the photo they have for the article is of Teyla and Radek. The couldn't find a main cast photo? But the two of them look like I feel.

Re: Cancelled!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, poor David. Wanted to post my 'condolecences' of sorts, but well, damn hacker! Heh, maybe the picture was chosen becuase that's what the fans will feel like once they're done reading the artice.