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

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Ya know, I don't have cable, or satellite. It was thanks to a good friend that I discovered this show, and I did so when she found cute McShep videos on YouTube and she'd link me to them occasionally, and I'd be like "whoa, who are these cute guys? Okay, so that one guy... you said he's McKay, right? Who's the other guy he just kissed? And who're the pale skinny guys with the long stringy hair?"

It got to the point where I was reading McShep fictions and browsing videos on my own time (over a dialup connection, people! If that ain't dedication, I don't know what is!) and Melissa said I was probably the only fan of the show that had never seen a single episode. My Christmas present was the season 1 box set, ordered off Amazon for me.

After a while she got this bright idea of mailing me her external hard drive with a bunch of episodes she downloaded. Yep, her little hard drive--whom we named Chuck, after none other than SGA's own Chucknician--made several trips back and forth from Texas (her) to Kentucky (me), ferrying wonderful sci-fi. It's only recently that she's started sending me SG-1 eps as well, although those are gonna take a lot more time to go through. Oh, and she gave me a couple of seasons of Farscape as well, though I've only watched a few eps since I'm kinda hung up on Jack O'Neill's thinly-disguised flirting with Daniel Jackson.

And now... *sniffle* Skiffy, you bastard!!!