STARGATE ATLANTIS is Cancelled
August 21, 2008 · Print This Article
Stargate Atlantis is officially canceled. It is with great regret that we have learned today that this will be the last season for Stargate Atlantis. After the season ends, the network plans to have a a two-hour Stargate Atlantis movie to wrap things up.
According to the show’s writer, Joseph Mallozzi, the reason behind the cancellation was, you guessed it, money. Here is what he had to say on his blog:
Ultimately, it comes down to the numbers - less the ratings and more the bottom line. The longer a show is on the air, the more expensive it is to produce. Throw in the resurgence of the Canadian dollar, once pegged at 63 cents to the U.S. greenback, it now hovers at par, an approximate 37 cent bump which adds a significant hit to the production budget.
I believe it is a shame that even successful SciFi shows like Stargate Atlantis get cancelled. It is not like we have a lot of shows out there that we can rely on to take over. I know there is some buzz that maybe there might be a completely new Stargate franchise with the rumored Stargate Universe but let’s be real here. If Stargate Atlantis got canceled because it became expensive to shoot, what is to say that the same wouldn’t happen to Stargate Universe.?
At the rate things are going, they might start shooting shows in China to save on costs…and I am not even kidding people.
What do you guys think of Stargate Atlantis being canceled?
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Thats a danm shame!
The biggest mistake ever made!!!!
It. SUCKS!
I truly can’t believe the lack of tact exhibited by both SciFi and MGM. First, they announce they’re killing SGA (okay, they’re going to make one two-hour instead of 20 hours of TV). Then, less than 24 hours later, they gleefully say that all the fans will be thrilled with the Stargate Atlantis. Yeah, the press release came out today. “Young and desperate explorers” lost in space.
SciFi is gonna suddenly find a lot of people cancelling their subscriptions.
now there’s really nothing good friday nights! my friday nights were solid on moonlight and stargate. let’s hope for the best for the movies!
I can’t believe it, i wont! it cant happen this is possibly the best thing left on TV what with these people canceling everything good and replacing it with some crappy reality program! I blame all the sptupid people who think reality tv is somehow good! Idiots!
i wish that wouldn’t happen, stargate atlantis has been one of the things i enjoyed to watch because of the way it is showed, it has that story that gives you information, but leaves you hanging on wanting more. its a series that no one wants to see go. i will truly miss not seeing new seasons or episodes for atlantis.
i agree with Daniel, how many more, keeping up with the Kardashians, carters, bad girls club, “you are fired!” can we have on tv???
I’m a producer at an Indie film company. If Sci-Fi gave me half the budget of SG:A, I’d do the show for them. If it’s too expensive to shoot it in one place, then move it or shoot less on location and more on set. Honestly they could do 90% of that show on a set and cut down the CG without really having any issues. Or better yet, don’t waste the cash on shovelware like Stargate: Continuum.
“shovelware like Stargate: Continuum”…here we go…
I have only one thing I can say and it is the same when SG1 ended…
“This sucks!!!”
This makes me want to cry. Hopefully they end it well.
BLAME CANADA!!!
Anyway…somebody DID have a point. WHY is it that if the CANADIAN dollar is now so strong….why can’t they outsource it to the USA?
It’s the same show….same people….hell…do it near the border, and at most, it’s a COMMUTE!
OR…China? India? Pakistan (which would add to the we’re-all-gonna-die-realism)?
YOU DONT MAKE CRACK ADDICTS OUT OF PEOPLE, AND THEN TAKE THEIR SUPPLY! GIMMAH MAH GD STARGATE, BITCHES!
for a huge fan like my self that buys every season and movie of stargate sg1 or Atlantis. This is the worse thing that can happen to TV. Why Stop Making Something That people Really Love?
It sucks. Where do we complain ? I dont want it canceled. Everyone I know loves the show. Its the last really good space scifi series out there.
am beginning to think the firefly girls jinxed sg! (happy thoughts, pls happy thoughts!)
NOOOOOOOO NOT THE ONLY GOOD SERIES LEFT ON TELEVISION. Sci-Fi I am seriously starting to hate you …..
you guys think they canned atlantis to make room for stargate universe? scifi gave the greenlight for it already
So much for quality programming, Sci-Fi doesn’t seem to care.The almighty dollar rules the day. I understand that this is a busines but come on, really? OHhhh wait, I forgot, we live in the land of big oil and Halliburton.
A great show that I look forward to every time there is a new episode gets cancelled. Thanks sci-fi. I was addicted to SG1 & love Atlantis even more so I think the cancellation SUCKS!!!! Wrapping up with a tv movie is a small consolation to the ending of a great show with a great ensemble cast. So much stuff on sci-fi looks like fake crap & poor quality production, so take the one quality show you have & cancel it. Sounds like a dumb plan to me.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS ON TV. WHY WOULD YOU PUT ON ANOTHER STARGATE? SCI FI YOU JUST LOST SOME OF VIEWERS.
SciFi-how dare you shut down Atlantis it is the only decent show left on TV. You ‘can’ charge the sponcers more and keep the show on the air. The cartoons you now show are stupid and so is the show about finding ghosts. Aren’t you embaressed that you will not have a show worth viewing. Shame on all of you for taking Atlantis off of the air. I feel sorry for the actors on the show, they are really good and it always felt like I was with them. Atlantis is like going on an exciting vacation on Friday nights……….
There is no doubt that many viewers will be disappointed as am I. Stargate and Stargate Atlantis are my favorite shows of all time. I am a Christian and it is difficult to find any scifi shows that are quality and family friendly without sexual immorality or abundant cussing. Yes, I wish they would take out all of the swearing from the show too. Anyway, I hope there is a way Stargate Atlantis can survive or a new series can be started. I don’t understand why costs go up the longer the show goes on. Can you explain please?
I can hardly believe that Stargate Atlantis has been cancelled & as I read through what other views have written I can see we are in agreement. TRUE scifi fans do not want to see shows like “scare tactic ” or so-call reality based ghost hunters, etc……. We want SCIENCE FICTION. We want to escape into other worlds and other possiblities. The cast of Stargate Atlantis let us do this. If the Scifi Channel is to continue to be the “Scifi Channel” it will need to stop cancelling its best shows. Maybe there is another network out there that’s more interested in what the scifi fans have to say!
we all know this day would come but why so soon, this season has been sooo good.
isnt there SOMETHING we can do to save sg atlantis? they kept the original 60’s star trek on the air via a massive letter writing campaign. fans preserved garbage like roswell as well as jericho on air by bombardingnetwork execs with gimmicks like sending hoards of bottles of hot sauce bottles & containers of peanuts. so why the heck cant we,as fans of the greatest sci fi show of all time,find a way to persuade the network execs not to cancel our show? cmon people think, what can we do to simply blow their minds & CONVINCE THEM to keep our show on the air ? and remember we arent just being selfish in trying to save our show: if we keep it on the air then everyone involved with their show keeps their jobs & can keep a roof over their familes head
I really believe that SG Atlantis is the best show on TV now. The SciFi Network has really dissapointed me with this. I will watch to the bitter end but once SG Atlantis is over I will cancel my subscription to the Scifi network.
Holy Moly…This is the worst news I have heard this year. I waited all summer for Season 5 to start and now I have been let down again knowing next summers wait will have been for nothing. Stargate Universe seems like it could take the reigns, but like most fans are saying why take a show off air when the people who will be watching the new Stargate are the same watching Atlantis now. Doesn’t make any sense. And how exactly can you determine the ratings for the rest of Season 5, while were barely on Episode 7…I am just baffled.
I AM SO VERY UPSET OVER THE SHOW BEING CANCELED
WHO EVER MADE THE DECISION IS IN THE SAME LEAGUE AS THE DOPE THAT TURNED DOWN M&M’S FOR SKITTLES FOR THE ET CHARACTER OF THE MOVIE ET. WHO REMEMBERS WHAT’S HIS NAME BUT THEY REMEMBER THE DECISION…
AND THE JOKES ABOUT IT… WHERE O WHERE IS THE COMMON SENSE ….IF THEY CAN’T HAVE MONEY FOR SGA HOW COME THEY CAN HAVE THE MONEY OF SGU….NOW THEY HAVE TO HAVE NEW LOCATIONS NEW SETS NEW COSTUMES NEW CONTRACTS FOR ACTORS AND CREWS…
THEY HAD TO HAVE THIS PLANNED FOR A LONG TIME…AND I FOR ONE AM TIRED OF HAVING SHOWS JUST CANCELED WITHOUT REALLY GIVING THEM A CHANCE….THIS SHOW HAS POTENTIAL AND COMPARED TO WHAT IS OUT THERE TO LOOK AT IT IS A CRIME TO TAKE SGA OFF AIR…
It appears to me MGM and the SCI-FI channel have taken a huge step towards cancelling themselves with this series ending decision.
I am disappointed with the demise of STARGATE ATLANTIS.
It was the same with STARGATE SG-1 but we had this series to help us through our disappointment.
I know that TV series don’t last forever but this cancellation seems premature.
I miss the characters from SG-1 and will certainly miss them from STARGATE ATLANTIS too.
My personal favorite from SG-1 was General Hammond and, as a result, I became a big Don S. Davis fan. I was truly saddened when he passed.
A lot of folks are angry with MGM and the SCI-FI channel just as many were upset with the SHOWTIME channel when they dropped STARGATE SG-1.
I would like to thank MGM, the SCI-FI channel and SHOWTIME for offering these programs.
If there is a continuation of the STARGATE theme I will view it with the hopes that it will live up to the quality of its predecessors.
i know every one is thinking this but i dont thing anyone said it.
FUCK YOU WHOEVER DECIDED THIS!!!!!
SCIFI are you retarded? Atlantis won the peoples choice award!!
That means people LIKE it. This show has far to much potential for you to just cut it off. i know you have money problems but for god sakes cut all of that crap you show when atlantis is not on. Peoples CHOICE AWARD! god you make me so mad!!!
kudos to you Mr. [Fred] Ward, not only is your opinion very articulate it is rather well adjusted. the powers at be have greenlit the two hour special of stargate atlantis. i would just hope that the atlantis movie will be as well received as the sg1 movies.
If you’re annoyed/pissed off/livid, etc. there is a ‘SAve Our Show’ type campaign going.
Addresses, etc. at http://wraithfodder.livejournal.com/229897.html
Apparently SciFi’s e-mail servers are getting overflowed with fan mail. Let’s keep at it!
NUTZ!!
What The …
Stargate and Dr. Who are the only two quality scifi shows left on television, and leave it up to the dumb …s at SciFi to cancel Stargate. Only thing that made me get cable. Guess I’ll cancel my subscription after the season ends. This is ridiculous.
This is almost as bad as when Firefly got canned, (almost) and it’s a real disappointment to see quality shows dying off and absolutely wretched ones taking over. Oh well, I guess people’s taste just isn’ t as refined as it used to be.
The fact of the matter the big companies that make these shows can all the old franchises to boot out the teams that want an increase in there payments every new season. Boot out the old ones. Get in a new set of younger, fresher, more hard workring newbies and your off again. Scifi channel may not want Stargate but they will find a new theme and it will take over, then it will get to expensive, then they will can it, then start a new one, then it will, well I think you get the idea.
Wait a while it will all work out in the end.
It’s a business, you all pretend like the movie and television industry actually cares what fans like, want and think!
First off what happened to the old fashion budget cut? So costs are getting more expensive for a buisness as it grows, what shall we do? I know shut it down, somehow this poor excuse they’re labouring under makes no sense how can costs increase that much when you already have most sets built and previous effects surely changing exchange rates can’t effect it that much if so cutback in other areas who honestIy would care if the CGI wasn’t great whilst watching stargate i can’t remember thinking lucky that explosion was realistic or i would’nt watch the show some of the best sci-fi shows ever comparitivley have shocking effects you still watch them
Theres alternative motive to this cancellation all i can think is they foresee making more money of the movies than the series as jason said they don’t care what the fans think otherwise they’d find a way i hope they lose alot of money because of this
I don’t know, this makes no sense. star trek, buck rogers, and many others did far less in there seasons. Soon they all became big box office movies. Yea the story to the 4 and 5 season is getting twisted with all the who’s in charge of atlantis, plus one has to wonder how many time you can kill the hero and bring him back. but the story line, myths, and history is what people love. I would be sorry to see this die as I think it could be one of those shows that is stamped in time. You know they had a pilot for aqua man and they canceled it too but people keep buying the pilot from itunes. The BIG shots at the top should take note, if you want people to show up and watch every night you have to make a good show with a good actors and a story line, star gate atlantis is this show.
I think it has less to do with money or ratings and more to do with the social and political climate of the US at the moment. People in the TV industry are under a lot of pressure to tow a certain line, and sci-fi shows like SGA dont fit that line as they might actually encourage people to use their imagination and think for themselves.
I feel sorry for the writers who create these great storys only to get canceled, I think I will give up tv this was one of the last best shows on. I remember being a kid and looking forward to watching my favorite shows every night, now shows are dumbed down and made so everyone is happy. Truth is you can’t make everyone happy if you want a good show.
awwwww….. saddens me that the SGA will be cancelled… i watched the first movie when it was kurt russell as Jack O’Neil since i was a kid then followed all 10 seasons of SG1 then now SGA… awwww man…. i like this show very much…. Sci-Fi change ur mind pls…. dun cancel SGA… many sci-fi peepz love this show especially me ofcourse hehe…. c’mon pleassss! haiz… now there are now more good scifi shows now… dammit…
grats concidering your constantly paying more for actors who are becomming increasingly famous, you decide to cut the show whereas the obvious answer is to pay them less. they wont mind not getting a raise when it means they can keep their jobs and yes sure some will look for other jobs but will be sorly dissapointed. cut their pay checks if they arnt stupid you wont pay any extra for the show. and this is ofc the obvious answer so you must have thought of this, which leads anyone with half a brain to the conclusion that its got nothing to do with money. so why cancel sta? or just keep lying to the fans but you have lost more money by canceling (we already determinined its not about the money).
I think it’s a big mistake to cancell the show!
so many fans, can’t they just sell it to more countries or something?
I live in the Netherlands and i would really like it if it came on television here.
I will really miss this show!
i agree, there’s even a group here in Manila, PHILIPPINES, that watch stargate as a group
SciFi seems to be laboring under the misconception that it doesn’t matter what they throw at us, if it’s Stargate, we’ll be happy.
I have no interest in the “younger” show and I’m really tired of being written off as a demographic. I want MY show, not Stargate lite.
I’m discouraged and disappointed.
When I first heard of the cancellation, I assumed it was joke. Surely MGM could not be contemplating ending a show with such a large and loyal fanbase. After watching the last episode (The Shrine) I am even more mystified as to how anyone could want to cancel Stargate:Atlantis. The acting was superb even by the high standards of the show, and I am unashamed to admit I wept through most of the episode, and I have never been one to weep while watching a fictional program.
Not only to we tune in to watch the show every week, but we also buy the DVDs and other merchandise, go to the cons to listen to the cast, we talk to each other about our favorite episodes, we log onto GateWorld to hear the latest, some even write fanfiction based on the show and it’s characters. I personally have stuck by the show through its many casting changes, and while I may not have always agreed with those changes I have kept an open mind and learned to enjoy the new characters to the show.
I feel that ending the show so suddenly would be a vast disservice to both the cast and crew of the show as well as a disservice to the show’s many loyal fans. There is no way that a 2-hour movie could adequately tie up all the loose ends from the shows various story lines.
It is my hope that they will reconsider their decision to cancel this fine show. I know I am not alone in feeling that Stargate:Atlantis has many more fine years ahead of it if only given the chance.
MGM/Scifi should be aware that if the decision to cancel Stargate:Atlantis is not reversed, I will no longer watch any program on the SciFi Channel, and that includes Stargate:Universe
I think it’s a shame, and I’m sad to see it go. I understand that it’s a business and all about the money. But they don’t get the money if they don’t get the viewers. Who do they think is going to watch Stargate: 90210 (oops, Universe) now that they have demonstrated a willingness to yank a show at the height of it’s popularity (good, consistent ratings, people choice award, etc.)? They are not deserving ot the trust that it takes to become a regular viewer.
Well,
They have put us through this one too many times. If they think that I will move on to BabyGate when it comes on, they are full of more crap than I thought. I won’t even watch Sanctuary because of this, both these shows have stollen our Stargate Atlantis. After all, where did they get the money to do 2 new shows, if they don’t have the money to do Atlantis??? They have finally pissed me off for good! I’m done with Sci-Fi after Atlantis is over, they have cancelled the last show I will ever watch with them.
It’s really a huge shame to cancel this great sci-fi show. I’m so sorry to read this. I was very sorry and angry when SG-1 was cancelled, but at least we had Atlantis. Now the fans will have nothing, the third show, Stargate Universe seems to me like a Stargate Voyager on the basis of the spoilers. Actually I like Star Trek, but I do not wish to get one instead of Stargate.
If this is all about money, why they do not find another financing source? There live a lot of fans all over the world, we’ll be more than happy if we could watch the show in local TVs and we could buy the DVDs with subtitles at least.
Or they can reduce the producing costs besides, e.g. shooting in Middle Europe, cheaper CGI - there are a bunch of well-qualified people all over the world who are capable of doing this in the expected high quality, etc.
At last, why MGM needs Sci-Fi at all? There are other big TV companies instead. At the beginning of SG-1, the show was owned by another company, as I remember.
Anyway, fans can express their displeasure with this bad decision and maybe this could lead them to change their mind. Perhaps.
Why invest enthusiasm in a new show of the stargate franchise if that’s how you’ll be treated as a fan? You favorite show gets canceled out of the blue despite upgoing ratings and doing good on tv. I can perfectly understand that they want a third show to follow Atlantis, but to cancel Atlantis *for* the new toy, not a good way to deal with your audience. I think it would have made more sense to make another season of Atlantis and to use it as a lead in to their new show - keeping the old fans as well as gaining new ones, instead of stepping on toes left and right and creating animosity for the new show before it’s even on air. A little more expensive for a season since they would have to support two shows but in the long run, I think it would have done their franchise more good than this way.
SGA is the only science fiction show I watch and that too for the characters. I am sad to lose my favourite characters because of financial issues. However I do question why, if it is too expensive to make Stargate Atlantis, they can make Stargate: Universe. So having a show targeting younger viewers is more profitable? Nice to know that age-ism is alive and kicking even when it comes to TV viewers.
I’m still so angry and upset about this decision. Yes, okay, on the scale of things, it’s only a tv show, but it’s a tv show that drew me in, that entertained me and inspired me to write my first fanfiction.
Even with cast changes, the core characters have always been interesting and well rounded and the cast that portrays them have always done so in an engaging way, making me care about them.
Production values have always been so high on both SG-1 and SGA, with a talented crew, great direction and great scripts. It looks like that very attention to detail has shot them in the foot. This doesn’t bode well for the new Stargate: Universe. I’m already less than impressed by the way it came into being and the fact that it’s aimed at a younger audience- because we’re obviously all too old and undesirable as fans now! But if production costs are being blamed for the cancellation, it doesn’t imply that the new show will be able to reach the same standards as SG-1 and SGA and why would I want to waste my time on a substandard show?
Hopefully someone will come to their senses, but regardless, I’d like to thank everyone for the last five great years.
Laura.
I live in the UK, and on 19 Aug I watched the first episode of Season 5 Stargate: Atlantis on Sky One…. On 21 Aug I woke up to find that the show I loved had been cancelled. I felt upset and angry.
I don’t pretend to understand the ins and outs of American television, but I really can’t understand the rationale of cancelling a show that has increased its ratings from last season, won the Peoples’ Choice Award earlier this year, and, in the last few days, has been nominated for four Gemini awards. What more does a show need to do to get renewed????
I am not a fan of “The Franchise” that TPTB keep going on about. I watched a few episodes of SG-1 but soon got bored with Carter saving the day all the time.
On the other hand, Stargate Atlantis gripped me from the moment I watched the pilot. It introduced me to two very fine actors, Joe Flanigan and David Hewlett; and I don’t mind admitting that, at the very least, I will be following Joe Flanigan’s career when Atlantis ends.
Regarding Stargate Universe: Judging from the premise, and that the makers want a younger audience, I very much doubt whether I shall watch it (unless JF is in it - see paragraph above).
The fact that they openly state that they want a ‘younger audience’ is actually an insult to many of the fans that have loyally watched SG-1/SGA. I have a feeling that they may find themselves regretting that decision.
I’m angry at Sci Fi but I’m angry at the production company and MGM as well. My suspicion is that the producers and MGM may not care very much, and didn’t try to charge Sci Fi a reasonable cost for Atlantis. At the Vancouver con this spring, the producers talked about their dilemma. They have a green light for a new series AND for movies–they simply don’t have the time or personnel to do everything at once. They want to do movies–one tenth the work for probably about the same cost to do an entire season. They want to do their new, shiny show, Stargate Universe.
I think they are a bit shortsighted, though. New SGA episodes on the tube 20 times a year keeps Stargate in the forefront of our brains. One two-hour movie won’t make up for the loss of 20 weeks of a great show. Audiences are fickle. No new Stargate for a year, and who’s going to be around to bother with SG:Universe? But I just keep remembering the producers moaning about how much work it was doing 40 hours of TV per year, and being so happy with doing “only” Atlantis and two movies this year.
Heaven forbid they would ever hire anybody and let some new blood write and direct episodes, and be producers, too. I thought surely they would do as they did with SG-1–keep the successful show around for at least a year while they introduce the new shiny thing. If it succeeds, great, if it doesn’t, you haven’t killed off the entire franchise.
But I don’t think it’s that everybody is simply stupid–they are lazy as well. Half the work for the same money–and who cares what the fans think?
I’m just heartbroken. And very very tired. I don’t want a new show targeted at a “younger” demographic. They couldn’t ask for a more loyal audience than the one they had, and they simply threw it away. I will sadly look forward to an SGA movie, but I have no interest in watching Stargate Universe and no intention of doing so.
See here is the thing, we are running out of Star Trek’s and Battlestar Gallactica’s to the point of what is going to keep sci fi loving people watching that station? Re-runs are nice and all, but I didnt get my girlfriend who thought all this was geek stuff into it on re-runs. They either need to keep rolling out GOOD original series to meet the demand or chip in to keep the successful series rolling.
The beauty of a series like this is there is always something new to explore. Any outlandish idea can be harnessed and run with, I think that is why combined there have been 15 seasons. To stop now just seems foolish, but welcome to the new American Empire. Where the great an innovative is sh!t-canned and the mediocre is raised up as entertainment.
I think cancelling Stargate Atlantis is one of the most stuip things the producers of the franchise have ever done. I know they want to get into the movies, but do more SG-1 movies and leave Atlantis alone.
i have an idea if its all about money why not just cancell that stupid show wwf “world wrestling federation” which has nutning to do with sci-fi =science fiction then u can use that money to keep stargate on tada problem solved cuz u have alot of stupid shows that have nutn to do with sci-fi n then u produce stupid made for tv crap that weally sucs so i guess i’ll be puddle jumping to a new tv station if u dont fix it
This cant be cancelled, the game is to release soon and the show has great fan base, they need to allow other networks to play it or pick it up so they can get more funding and fanbase.
SC fi needs to learn how to market a show.
One thing I don’t understand is the complaint about not having enough money. It was said on multiple commentaries in season four that, with SG1 over, Atlantis was able to use a lot of their sets and do more “Earthside” shows for a lot less.
It they did more in studio shows, or character based shows, in the sixth season, as opposed to more shows like “Be All My Sins Remembered” (it was amazing, but was full of CGI) then they could save a lot of money.
Also, the commentaries often talk about the amazing greens team. So do some of your second unit shooting in a greened-up room, instead of on location.
Plus, as much as we like the booms, fandom fans are always ready to enjoy character-driven pieces, like Missing and Quarentine, which are a bit cheeper.
If all else fails, there are cheeper places to do these things.
Bottom line: THERE ARE PLENTY OF WAYS TO SAVE MONEY AND STILL KEEP AN AMAZING SHOW ON THE AIR!
PS: Is anyone else getting flashbacks to the 200th ep of SG1? When they’re all young’uns and Teal’c - “I was still gonna tap that!” God! Hilarious scene in Ep 200, Terrifying thought in SGU.
ok i know how the sci fi network thinks that only aged ppl watch this show but they are wrong. i am 13 and i am overly obsessed with it. i confess that i missed the first 3 seasons and some of the 4th season but i made it up by watching them online. sci fi is truly STUPID for doing this. i agree with the others why does sci fi put up frweakin gay shows like scare tactics, and ghost hunters………and my parent have me on a curfew it’s by 9:30 i have to b in bed but they say i can stay up to watch atlantis…. even when i waz grounded they let me watch it b/c they know that i love it……………..
sci fi if you truly cancel atlantis i am going to have my parents end our sci fi subscription and ill watch shows online!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this is the most stupid idea ever. I love Stargate Atlantis and i am very angry over this. This is total bullshit!
I agree with those who say that that the Sci Fi channel is at fault here. How many good shows have they trumpeted, only to drop them a season (or less) later. The Sci Fi channel has just a few actual science fiction shows on it, the rest being reruns, stupid reality shows, wrestling (?!), or really bad movies. I can’t see watching this station anymore, even though I was looking forward to trying Sanctuary this season. Eureka, you’d better watch our–you’ll be cancelled next!
I can’t believe they have canceled Stargate Atlantis! It’s a fantastic show! Its not money, if it was due to money, why the hell are they going to be making a new show! (and there’s no point in watching that, it will only be canceled in like 2 series or so!) One thing is for sure, I (and loads of other people from England) WONT be watching it!
Scifi, you just lost a viewer.
I looked forward to just crashing on my bed watching Stargate Sg1 and Atlantis. If you think I am going to sit through Sanctuary, you got another thing comming.
The only thing I will be watching will be the last of the Atlantis shows, and the Last of the Battlestars. After that I doubt I will be watching you guys anymore.
No way!!!, Big mistake,,,,SG Atlantis is one of the greatest Sci-Fi series evermade and to ditch it is unthinkable, Great Storylines, Fantastic cast not to mention the awesome visuals and cliffhangers from season to season, Please please please rethink this, Must be someway to keep the funding up?.
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Well where do I start…. Frankly this is a huge shock to me personally & as I’m shore to just about everybody else, When SG-1 ended it was understandable it had ten year’s and that’s a excellent run for a show enough said, StarGate Atlantis getting canceled at where it is now in its prime what on earth are they thinking honestly the only show me & my wife watched on the Sci-Fi channel was indeed Atlantis and we both now have no reason to switch to that channel at all, It Those not take a genius to work out that this is a very bad business decision & from what I have read from the other comments on this page it seems that We are not alone in thinking Atlantis was the only show worth watching on Sci-Fi, And as for this Stargate Universe what’s the point the show sounds like a rip off between “Sliders” “Star Trek Voyager” & “Lost In Space” So thanks but no thanks.
Disappointedly,
Sir Cannich Dirke
I would really like to see a show like stargate atlantis that would run for 10 years, yes they could be that show, like startrek was back in the day but it looks like they have really dropped the ball. The sad thing is that I was planing on buying all the seasons in blue ray once they came out. now Im not so sure. my heart goes out to the actors who when i see them on an episode of what ever they will all seem like those heros from this show “stargate atlantis”
Very upsetting. I was very sad when SG-1 got canceled, but at the time I still had Atlantis. Now Atlantis is also getting canceled, and I’m seriously running out of shows to be excited about on TV all together. Hopefully Stargate Universe will make it
if the ceo’s of their show would take a couple million from what they get paid when they get 10’s of millions each year maybe they could fund it a bit longer. but oh no wait, the fans aren’t biting cause we’re treated like a yoyo
lets see
US enters war with iraq - > france and russia disputes who will get the oil contracts > world dives into iol crisis > stock market investors see what oil companies could do to people and get more money >
stock market ppl pump and dump and whole world dives into economical crisis.
at the same time the u.s housing market plunges because of high risk idiot loans while U.S is in deep shit in war and paying over 10 billion dollars per month loaned from china and japan.
dollar drops crashfall and all the sudden the biggest economical potency of fat fucks in the world is going bankrupt and everyoen around the world is paying for it
who is to blame for world crisis and ultimately the cancelation of Atlantis .;>
i blame Bush and all the idiot americans that voted for him
and when oceans stop and earth weather is similar to venus ill laugh because of all the stupid ppl that didnt vote for al gore because “globan warming wasnt real”
:/
I could not beleive that they cancelld sga i mean what the hell are scifi doing they killed farscape and now a few years later the kill off atlantis which is a series every body loves.
maybe some one like fox will buy the rights i mean its a populaire show with big dvd sales that pulls the ratings in if they go ahead and cann it then they are realy stupid and should fire the guy incharge.
More and more the scifi channel is declining. In fact with all the wrestling shows and cheap “horror” moves that they play, it shouldn’t be called scifi anymore.
The scifi channel has no real concept of good scifi.All shows must sooner or later come to a end but to cancel shows before their time borders on stupidtidy.The shows receive awards have good ratings and then the dumb asse’s that run the scifi channel decide to drop them.why do u waste the time to heap praise upon these shows in your magizine then decide to drop them.Friday night use to be the best night for tv,now after the first of the year i will have no real reason to tune into the scifi network.It seems like any original programming that u develop,that assumes a following u decide to cancel and replace it with bullshit reality programs,reruns of old shows and some of the worst b- grade movies i have ever seen on tv.
The Sci-Fi Channel needs to reconsider their decision. I only began watching the Sci-Fi Channel because of Stargate SG-1 that I really loved but I was really wow’d by the premier of Stargate Atlantis. In a world where we are so limited on time and bogged down by the everyday demands of life it was a wonderful experience to loose ourselves in the futuristic world of Stargate Atlantis allowing ourselves that rare moment of abandonment in time and space, connecting with everything we ever concieved or imagined that life between our world and other worlds could be and then some. I for one will miss those moments when I’m totally enthralled in their adventures that I become frustrated that it ended so soon. :0) Please Sci-Fi if it’s money you need cut someone elses budget or their series by a few episodes. We won’t miss the other shows that much, but we will miss Stargate Atlantis and the escape it’s brilliant story lines have given us and I bet you will miss us as well.
Please RECONSIDER!!
This is a horrible loss to Science Fiction.
I am a loyal fan and watch it religiously. Even thought the new season is only available on pay movie channels in Canada.
There must be something that could be done.
Maybe a shorter season is the answer. Some is better than none.
It will sadly missed.