Stargate Atlantis will end this season

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UPDATE: MGM has advised us that an official press release will be issued Thursday, which will hopefully answer many questions. Stay tuned to GateWorld.

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.

Stay tuned to GateWorld and the GateWorld Podcast for the latest developments and comments from the show's producers, and hopefully for some big Stargate Universe news in the weeks ahead. Discuss this story now at GateWorld Forum.

Stargate Atlantis airs Friday nights at 10 p.m. (9 Central) on SCI FI.
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they just give me more reasons why i should stop watching sci station..... there is no sci on it anymore.....
 
but crap like Scare tatics and ghost hunters get new episodes?

Bring back Dresden Files!!

Pick up Torchwood!!!

Atleast theres Dr. Who and Eureka. Im hoping scifi will pick up New Amsterdam, luv that show, short lived as it was.

bah!! All i got is hopes, dreams, and sunflower seeds.....anyone want to buy some seeds?:huh:
 
I'm sad. :cry:

The show wasn't as good as SG-1, but it was still a very good sci-fi adventure show.

Now there's nothing left for me to watch on that channel. :mad:
 
I didn't really ever watch Atlantis but SG-1 RULED at least while Richard Dean Anderson was on there:) Torchwood is a very good show, although I always miss it and am addicted to other things in its time spot so the TiVo goes to other channels.
 
cam191919 said:
whats stargate atlantis?

whats pretty much everything that bk said?

sunflower seeds?
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It's a SciFi show. Sort of like a VERY updated Star Trek is the best way i know how to describe to you. Irishspy's avatar shows a character or race of people I should say from SG-1 the show Atlantis was spun from.
 
Good thing I dont have cable or Id be pissed lol sucks though because I liked that show and buy the season dvds.
 
sg1 got better the last season again i thought they go back to the roots....

doctor who and Torchwood are bbc so i dont count them...... torchwood is being retooled and being more family friendly. i always downloaded the bbc one i am sure there was a lot of stuff cut from it. doctor who the last season was brilliant..... its only going to have 4 eps next seasons and they are getting a new who.....
 
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