The Stargates survive!

Last year Stargate SG-1 got cancelled, now another gate closes down… but you can’t send a great tv series in oblivion! Bad news aside, 2008 proves to be a HUGE Stargate year!

 

Stargate SG-1 survived several cast changes, spawned a succesful sister series Stargate Atlantis and the show’s heroes were victorious against many foes. But the show starring Richard Dean Anderson, Beau Bridges and Amanda Tapping didn’t survive the number crunching bureaucrats at SciFi Channel’s headquarters.

 

More bad news…

 

Now after 5 succesful seasons, Stargate Atlantis also needs to close down.

 

SciFi channel wants a noughties scifi series with a younger cast, as apparently Stargate Atlantis is too much "nineties" for them.

 

But hang on there’s loads of good news too!

 

Birth of a new Stargate!

 

And so, a new Stargate series will grace our television screens: Stargate Universe.

The series will feature a fresh cast and the much liked Stargate touch but with a darker edge than fans are used.

 

The storyline will center around a Stargate crew trapped on board an ancient spaceship.

Stargate universe will fill the void other spaceship based scifi series like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica left behind.

 

The bad news aside, 2008 actually proves to be a huge Stargate year so far.

 

Watch the Stargate Continuum teaser:

 

Two direct to DVD Stargate SG-1 movies have been released with impressive domestic sales numbers:
* Stargate SG-1: Ark of Truth first week sales 251,642 units ($4.2 million)
* Stargate SG-1: Continuum first week sales 251,642 units ‘$4.8 million)

 

With such great numbers, more movies seem likely!

Also a Stargate Atlantis movie, has already been commisioned. It’ll be a standalone movie as the show’s producer Joseph Malozzi announced that the 100th and final Stargate Atlantis episode won’t end on a cliffhanger.

 

And that’s not all! Also the highly anticipated video game Stargate Worlds will see the light of day this year. The previews for the game so far have all been promising!

 

Watch the Stargate Worlds Game preview!

 

A lot to look forward to!

 

> Are you a Stargate fan? What do you think of all these exciting changes?

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