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From this morning's IGA FILMFORCE Website:
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MGM Plans Second Stargate Series and Film
And SG-1 continues for an eighth season.
July 29, 2003 - Last week, fans of Stargate SG-1 were buoyed by the news that the sci-fi spin-off series would continue for an eighth season; and equally important, that both Richard Dean Anderson (Col. Jack O'Neill) and Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson) would be staying on for the new season. TV Times announced the series' continuation, which will be the cover story of its upcoming issue, and additional details appeared on the website of the Sci Fi Channel, the station which airs the show.
Speculation about the show's demise has been rampant in past months, due in part to the show's small fan base. Although it attracts over a million weekly viewers, SG-1's audience is still a fraction of what even Paramount's flagging Enterprise boasts – despite TV Guide's optimistic claim that SG-1 is science fiction's greatest hit.
However, MGM has taken a U-turn with their franchise, announcing a second Stargate series to begin concurrent to SG-1's eighth season. The new show will be called Stargate: Atlantis, and will feature an entirely new cast of explorers and scientists who search for clues to the Stargate's origin.
OzStargate has many details on the new "underwater spin-off." The basic premise is the discovery of a prehistoric secret base left by the "Ancients," the Stargate-builders, on the long-submerged continent of Atlantis. This discovery will lead the new Stargate team to another faraway planet/galaxy/universe where another primitive human tribe is again threatened by a sinister enemy. Atlantis will pit its explorers against a new villain race that "makes the Goa'uld look tame by comparison." Stargate: Atlantis, however, will not center around a military team like SG-1.
MGM intends to end SG-1 at the close of season eight, and to use it as a lead-in for a second Stargate film, based on SG-1. Movie fans who prefer the original film to the television series may be disheartened; Stargate is possibly one of the best science fiction films made since Star Wars, and director Dean Devlin has said on occasion that he'd love to do a sequel along the same lines as the first, if only MGM would let him.
-- Paul Davidson
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From this morning's IGA FILMFORCE Website:
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MGM Plans Second Stargate Series and Film
And SG-1 continues for an eighth season.
July 29, 2003 - Last week, fans of Stargate SG-1 were buoyed by the news that the sci-fi spin-off series would continue for an eighth season; and equally important, that both Richard Dean Anderson (Col. Jack O'Neill) and Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson) would be staying on for the new season. TV Times announced the series' continuation, which will be the cover story of its upcoming issue, and additional details appeared on the website of the Sci Fi Channel, the station which airs the show.
Speculation about the show's demise has been rampant in past months, due in part to the show's small fan base. Although it attracts over a million weekly viewers, SG-1's audience is still a fraction of what even Paramount's flagging Enterprise boasts – despite TV Guide's optimistic claim that SG-1 is science fiction's greatest hit.
However, MGM has taken a U-turn with their franchise, announcing a second Stargate series to begin concurrent to SG-1's eighth season. The new show will be called Stargate: Atlantis, and will feature an entirely new cast of explorers and scientists who search for clues to the Stargate's origin.
OzStargate has many details on the new "underwater spin-off." The basic premise is the discovery of a prehistoric secret base left by the "Ancients," the Stargate-builders, on the long-submerged continent of Atlantis. This discovery will lead the new Stargate team to another faraway planet/galaxy/universe where another primitive human tribe is again threatened by a sinister enemy. Atlantis will pit its explorers against a new villain race that "makes the Goa'uld look tame by comparison." Stargate: Atlantis, however, will not center around a military team like SG-1.
MGM intends to end SG-1 at the close of season eight, and to use it as a lead-in for a second Stargate film, based on SG-1. Movie fans who prefer the original film to the television series may be disheartened; Stargate is possibly one of the best science fiction films made since Star Wars, and director Dean Devlin has said on occasion that he'd love to do a sequel along the same lines as the first, if only MGM would let him.
-- Paul Davidson
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Rowan
