SG-1 has been cancelled. SG-1 will finish at the end of Season 10; while Atlantis has been commissioned for a fourth season.

The most interesting and quirky campaign to save the series is one where people are encouraged to write "Send more!" on the side of a Kleenex box and send it to the studio (harking back to the very first episode when Jack threw a box of Kleenex through the Gate to find out if Daniel was still alive).

Sad news. I'm glad Atlantis is continuing though, I've been watching that with more enthusiasm than the original of late.

Sign this petition folks to save the series:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Stargate/index.html

I'll be buying a tissue box and will ship it to the US too! Thanks for the info.

Yeah, signing petitions helps....

Well, Viacom did not want Star Trek Enterprise to continue.

Howevever, MGM is fully behind the Stargate franchise and wants SG1 to keep on truckin'.

I've been sitting and retyping how I feel about this news several times over and each time I can't help but think it just doesn't get my feelings over. I still love Stargate but I'm finding it hard to be shocked/disappointed that it was cancelled. It had become an "always there" show for me. Comforting to know the show was being made and new stories were around but at the same time it didn't really provide any new shocks/twists. The stories themselves were good but it was SG-1, you knew they'd save the day in the end and I guess that's why I'm not too disappointed. While I liked the series there was just little actual "OMG! Are they going to survive this one?!" left in it. There's always a bit of that in any show when dealing with main cast members but however after ten seasons I think you'd pretty much know how Sam, Teal'C and Daniel (being the three main cast members left) would react in any given situation and that SG1 would survive to fight again.

Truthfully, Atlantis is already kind of the same after only three seasons but there's still a few cast members that haven't really been fleshed out and there's still time to throw in the odd twist to those we already know reasonably well by now, so it's good to hear it's still going to be going strong. With the news that MGM is still fully behind the Universe it'll be interesting to see where things go from here but with Atlantis still on the go it's not as if the entire SG Universe has disappeared off the face of the planet until MGM decide to do something different.

In the end, always bow out when you're doing well rather than outstaying your welcome.

Very well said, Kitty. That just about sums up how I felt: shock at its cancellation because the series has been around for so long, but a lack of surprise in view of the way it’s gone in the last few seasons. I know – and I’m glad – that many viewers still love it, but for me the last truly good season was Season 7 and – with the exception of the awesome Reckoning in Season 8 and Prototype in Season 9, not to mention the hilarious 200 just shown in Season 10 – I haven’t truly enjoyed the show since Lost City and watching the show has often been a chore rather than a pleasure. I kept watching partly because they occasionally did a really good episode and partly because of my role here at Nitcentral but there were often days – especially when I was still on dial-up and it took hours to pick up an episode – when I’d wonder to myself, ‘Can I really be bothered?’

Despite reading the news on various websites yesterday, it didn’t really hit me until I saw it on teletext last night. It prompted me to go and watch 200 again, and I got really teary-eyed at the end of it, and winced at Martin’s comment near the end about the series being renewed.

What I think was really cruel was to make the announcement immediately after the broadcast of an episode that filled so many fans with joy. It wouldn’t have hurt TPTB to have waited until just after the following, more ‘normal’ episode, but hitting everyone when they were on such a high was unkind. I’ve read that the producers really thought hard about changing the name of the series to Stargate Command at the beginning of Season 9 but either MGM or SciFi wouldn’t let them because they were pushing for the record of longest-ever science fiction series. Announcing the cancellation immediately after the 200th episode really smacks of “We’ve got what we wanted, now shove off.”

I personally won’t be signing any petitions because I do believe that it’s time to let the series go – but it won’t stop me crying buckets when the last episode goes out.

I kind of fear for Atlantis and suspect that it may not last beyond Season 4 on its own. Part of me hopes that once the producers and writers are concentrating on a single series, they’ll be able to put more into it – and might also be able to cajole a bigger budget out of MGM – but I can’t help also wondering whether they’ll try to turn it more into an SG-1 clone and take away the dark edge it had in its first season in particular, thus sending it the way of its parent show.

I'm sorry, but I can't actually get too worked up on this. It's been a good series, but I think it's time to let it end before it does start going the same route as series like The X-Files did.

As SpottedKitty said:-

"In the end, always bow out when you're doing well rather than outstaying your welcome. "

Fantastic that it lasted 10 years, I remember reading a Starburst article about it before it premiered and wondered how there would be material for one season, how wrong I was.

I find myself lamenting the cancellation of a show I resented not that many years ago.

Back when Stargate was still on Showtime, my favorite way to spend a Friday night in was to watch back-to-back eps then switch over at 11 to watch Dennis Miller Live on HBO. When it was announced that Stargate was moving to Sci-Fi, I was happy until I discovered that Sci-Fi's pouring so much money into Stargate meant the cancellation of Farscape (I know, not direct cause-and-effect, but it was a factor). And I absolutely hated Stargate for it.

Now I'll miss it. Ten years is nothing to regret. The one thing I wish they'd had time for was an entirely improvisational show, like Knott's Landing did towards the end of their run.

Callie,
Martin didn't say the show had been renewed at the end of the episode - he said they'd picked up the movie again. So maybe that gives up hope.

I wonder if there is any chance that any of the SG1 cast members will move to Atlantis ala Worf and DS9?

Personally, I hope not. Each of them (perhaps with the exception of Vala - and even she could have a similar role to Teyla and/or Ronon) has a function already taken by one of the Atlantis cast and to have two of them doing the same thing would result in both of them having a diminished role.

I wouldn't object to the occasional guest role, but I wouldn't like to see any of them transferring to Atlantis permanently.

There are rumours around the internet – prompted by an alleged comment from Paul McGillion at a recent convention – that the writers are considering the options of killing off one or more of the characters from Atlantis and replacing them with SG-1 characters. Now, it’s possible that the writers themselves are spreading these rumours – they could put pretty much everyone in jeopardy at the end of Season 3 of Atlantis and then be in a strong position to negotiate less drastic pay rises for those who want to keep their job!

It’s a scary thought, though, and if it does happen, I feel that TPTB will be killing off Atlantis way quicker than by any other route. Atlantis fans whose favourite character(s) has been written out will stop watching in protest; and SG-1 fans won’t necessarily follow their favourites across if they didn’t like the spin-off series anyway. Is there any evidence that fans of Farscape started watching SG-1 simply because Browder and Black joined?

Even minor characters are under threat: there’s a lot of fear for the fate of the Canadian technician (aka the Chucknician) who might – like Grodin before him – get bumped off in some gory way, all to make room for Walter! Mind you, personally I can’t see Chuck Campbell ever being paid more than Gary Jones, so hopefully that makes his position a little safer.

Callie: Is there any evidence that fans of Farscape started watching SG-1 simply because Browder and Black joined?

I would say so. I've read a number of Farscape fans who have written as much.

I still miss Ford. I say bring him back.

I hope they don't do this. I still feel like we hardly know these characters (particularly Teyla and Ronon) and I don't see why bringing in a few SG-1 actors would necessitate killing off any Atlantis characters.

This seems to be the most appropriate place to put this.

I don't share Gateworld's enthusiasm for more Ori storyline; I was fed up with it by the end of Season 10 and wasn't best pleased when more cropped up in The Ark of Truth.

There's a campaign going on right now to resurrect Stargate in one way or another, following the recent Origins mini-web-series.

Yeah, good villains are difficult, but not impossible to beat. When you need a deus ex machina to defeat the bad guys you've made them too powerful.

One thing I found difficult to understand about the Ori, once they knew about the Milky Way, why didn't they come in force to take it over? With all the power they derived from the worship of their followers, they should have been able to vanquish the Ancients easily.