Stargate Atlantis cancelled after season five...

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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.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2008/08/istargate_atlantisi_will_end_thi.shtml

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1. That's too bad. But SG: Universe looks intriguing

Given the big budget they want, it should be a great show like the other two were (are still).

Also, why does every SF series given the axe before it's time get enough support for the "Big Ass Movie" to end the story? Star Trek/TMP-UC, TNG/Gen-Nemesis, Firefly/Serenity, SG1/ Continuum/Ark of Truth, etc. You think they'd just continue the series if it's popular enough for a movie.:shrug:

Can't see "Big Ass Movie" being made after they cancel Two and a Half Men.