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

[sentinelsoul.livejournal.com]

Ah, I think I get it. MGM must be bleeding money somehow (those crappy TV movies, perhaps?), and they aren't getting enough by simply airing the show and the season box sets. A movie, however, cuts production costs, and they'll earn more.

Why can't they just take a hiatus like Doctor Who will? They'll have the movie or two to last us a year, and then they can save up some cash for the next season.

Sci-Fi always has sucked, though. And that's a sci-fi show for you-- DW and SG1 aside, how often have they actually lasted for more than five years?

I've heard there's to be a supposed new spin-off of some kind. :/ I wonder how they'll wing that, if at all.

Damn, this just SUCKS. *flips off MGM & Sci-Fi*

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

SciFi has killed every good show it has. It can't kill WHO because they don't make it. Thank goodness. But Invisible Man, etc. all killed with stupid decisions. Eureka will get the axe too, I'm sure, in a year or two.

[sentinelsoul.livejournal.com]

They axed I-Man because they were having a bitchfest with USA Network/NBC at the time. They're just a sucky channel. Why ax a great show? So they can play those fucking stupid movies that no one watches? UGH. I hate them so, so very much. It would be nice if the show could find another channel to appear on. NBC or USA or something, y'know?