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Posted By: Sebrioth
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Posted On: Aug 21st, 2008, 8:53 am
Source: Gateworld
Category: General
Language: English
Subject: • Stargate Atlantis Canceled, 2 Hour Movie Ordered
The SCI FI Channel is ending Stargate Atlantis after five seasons, Multichannel News reports.

The show will go on, though, with a 2-hour movie that will air on SCI FI in 2009, and be released on DVD by MGM. The film will be written by executive producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.

It's intended to be the first of an on-going series of Atlantis movies, according to the report. Stargate SG-1 has released two very successful movies direct-to-DVD this year (Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum), though neither has aired on U.S. television yet.

"The show will live on as a network franchise," the report also says. This could indicate that future Atlantis movies are a lock for SCI FI, or it may be a general statement about the cable network's commitment to the Stargate franchise.

Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, who created and executive produced Atlantis, pitched a third television series in the 11-year-old TV franchise to the network last year (story). While SCI FI has not yet announced a green light for that show, the end of Atlantis may clear the way -- the dollars available for original programming, that is -- for the next series.

Though Stargate Atlantis has been a solid ratings performer for SCI FI -- and was its highest-rated original program ever when it premiered in July 2004 -- in recent years series like Eureka have supplanted it in the "Live" ratings.

Atlantis remains an extremely strong performer in DVR-delayed viewing, though, often building as much as 25 to 30 percent on its premiere night audience.

Season Five will go out on a cliffhanger, with "Enemy At the Gate" expected to premiere in January. Expect the first Atlantis movie to wrap up that hanging storyline.
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Zarius

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Posted By On Thursday, August 21st 2008 9:56 pm  
Thank god. The show had jumped the shark a year ago
ali007
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Posted By On Friday, August 22nd 2008 4:21 am  
Disgraceful. A movie is not good enough - we want another series!!!
marvelfan89

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Posted By On Friday, August 22nd 2008 5:03 am  
It never jumped the shark it was solid all the way through. This is one of the best SciFi shows ever and they are giving it the axe. It is disgraceful.
Keht
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Posted By On Friday, August 22nd 2008 7:48 am  
I don't know what Sc-Fi is doing!! They are canceling all their good shows... Really I only watch them for Stargate and BSG so after they do this there is not much more to watch really.
godanubis
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Posted By On Friday, August 22nd 2008 3:28 pm  
stargate is in no way one of the best scifi series ever
although i am a fan of them Atlantis getting the axe was gonna happen after it lost it's lead in of SG1
best friday night line up Scifi had was BSG SG1 and Atlantis
scififann
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Posted By On Friday, August 29th 2008 5:13 pm  
Stargate SG-1 was of course the best. Atlantis has been great. But if you want a series to fail, start killing off the characters like Cammander Elizebeth Weir and Dr. Carsen Beckett. One of the things that kept SG-1 rolling was that the central characters stayed. Only Daniel Jackson would ascend and desend but he never "really" left. It is a shame that the show is being cancelled because it dropped a few ratings points. Maybe it was the 10:00 pm EST slot. What was wrong with 9:00 pm? Maybe those in controll are educated beyond their intelligence. Who knows?
Snakekilla
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Posted By On Sunday, December 28th 2008 11:02 am  
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Disgraceful. A movie is not good enough - we want another series!!!


you mean season, cause they're already making a new series for the franchise

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It never jumped the shark it was solid all the way through. This is one of the best SciFi shows ever and they are giving it the axe. It is disgraceful.

MGM is giving the axe on this one not Sci Fi.
Jay1728

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Posted By On Tuesday, January 27th 2009 7:56 pm  
SG-1 ended for me when RDA stopped being in the team. In SGA, however, Weir was not as essential. Beckett was, I give you that, and still is essential to the series like Rodney, Sheppard, Teyla or Ronon for that matter. Weir wasn't... I'll miss SGA nonetheless.
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