BrynS
Mr Kat says...
Or more specifically, the Sci-Fi channel has announced that it does not intend to renew the series for another season; Stargate Atlantis has been picked up for a fourth season.
GateWorld has the full scoop and thoughts on the show's future.
GateWorld has also spoken to the shows Executive Producer, Robert C. Cooper, who believes that SG-1 will go on.
Online impressions of the show's 200th episode (titiled: "200"), which aired last week, have generally been very positive and I'm looking forward to watching it later in the year when it airs in the UK.
SG-1 has been a Sci-Fi stable for years now, but with SG-1, Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica in simultaneous production over the past three years, amongst Sci-Fi's various other shows, I wouldn't be surprised if the production cost burden wasn't something that Sci-Fi wanted to offload. With the premiere of Atlantis at the start of SG-1's eighth season, Sci-Fi cut the episode production number from 22 shows per season to 20 shows each. The following seasons included substantially reduced main title sequences during first-run shows, to increase advertising time and revenue and I believe further trimming has been done this season to be able to air more adverts.
Atleast its had a decent run.
Cheers,
Bryn
GateWorld has the full scoop and thoughts on the show's future.
GateWorld News Article said:[...]
What is to come? Both the producers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have expressed a desire to continue the hit franchise with not just Stargate Atlantis, but something new in the future -- be it an SG-1 feature film or TV mini-series, or a third television show. The benefits of a simultaneous dual production in Vancouver, with two projects sharing producers, writers, and crew members, are tremendous for the studio. And Stargate is owner MGM's flagship television property, having recently been compared to its venerable "James Bond" film franchise in importance.
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GateWorld has also spoken to the shows Executive Producer, Robert C. Cooper, who believes that SG-1 will go on.
Robert C. Cooper GateWorld Story said:"As far as the future I can't comment yet because nothing has been confirmed," Cooper said. "What we want to emphasize is that the franchise is not dying. SG-1 will go on in some way. We're just not ready to announce how."
Online impressions of the show's 200th episode (titiled: "200"), which aired last week, have generally been very positive and I'm looking forward to watching it later in the year when it airs in the UK.
SG-1 has been a Sci-Fi stable for years now, but with SG-1, Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica in simultaneous production over the past three years, amongst Sci-Fi's various other shows, I wouldn't be surprised if the production cost burden wasn't something that Sci-Fi wanted to offload. With the premiere of Atlantis at the start of SG-1's eighth season, Sci-Fi cut the episode production number from 22 shows per season to 20 shows each. The following seasons included substantially reduced main title sequences during first-run shows, to increase advertising time and revenue and I believe further trimming has been done this season to be able to air more adverts.
Atleast its had a decent run.
Cheers,
Bryn