Stargate SG-1, the sci-fi TV show you only really watched on rainy hungover Sunday afternoons when you were waiting for Scrapheap Challenge to come on, has been axed.
Sci Fi Channel in America has decided to not make any more bewilderingly similar Stargate SG-1 episodes after its 10th series has finished, no doubt sparking all kinds of spoddy fan fiction about Teal'c The Jaffa crushing puny science-fiction networks with his mighty Zat'nik'tel while Samantha Carter does a sexy naked dance in the background.
Believe it or not, but Stargate SG-1 is the longest-running science-fiction show in America, which isn't bad for a TV show based on a 12-year-old, needlessly confusing movie about wormholes and sand. However, Stargate SG-1 never really gained the iconic status of other sci-fi shows – perhaps because none of the actors were prepared to sell pissed-out kidney stones for charity like actors in other shows have done.
And now, after a decade, Stargate SG-1 has finally bitten the dust. Sci Fi Channel has announced that the 10th season of Stargate SG-1 will be the last, according by a Sci Fi Channel statement:
"Having achieved so much over the course of the past 10 years, Sci Fi believes that the time is right to make this season their last on the channel."
By 'so much', we're assuming it means achieving dwindling ratings and the loss of one of the show's main stars, but – as with many sci-fi shows – Stargate SG-1's remaining viewers are ferociously loyal to the show, and there are several annual Stargate conventions for them to go to. This means that MGM, which makes Stargate SG-1, will be eager to punt the show around to other channels, like it did after five years on Showtime.
Presuming that Stargate SG-1 will not be picked up by any other networks, the current cast of Stargate SG-1 will be forced to assess the future of their careers, which we've boiled down to four options: 1) Try to convince real TV shows that they can actually act instead of putting a squiggly metal thing on their heads and carping on about The Tok'ra, 2) Try and angle for a recurring part on Stargate: Atlantis, which is still being made, and try and eek out a living on the convention circuit, 3) Sell phone messages for $300 like Gary Jones or 4) Do you want fries with that?
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Lights Out For Stargate SG-1 – Reuters
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Anthony Condar says
Wow, that was funny, AND original. Wit at it’s finest, my good sir.
But actually, the possibilities are not SG-1 on another network, but rather another format – TV movie, mini-series, etc. Also, a new spinoff.
Chris says
How about actually watching the show before criticising it?