SG-1 Cancelled?

After getting some good news earlier today (Doctor Who is coming back to Sci Fi, with the new season starting sometime next month and I will get the days I wanted of next week. 4 day weekend!!!!) I got some bad news. According to Gateworld Stargate SG-1 will be cancelled at the end of the season (Here is the official story from Sci-Fi)

While it is great that Atlantis has been renewed, and that characters from SG-1 will probobly appear on Atlantis next season, it is still sad to see the series end.

There is hope though.

First, there is a possibility that a movie or two will follow. There has been talk of a SG-1 movie since season 7, they have just been waiting for the series to end. Now we might finaly see the big screen adventures of SG-1.

Second, there is this.

If you don't feel like following the link, there are two very important things mentioned in it. 1.) Executive producer Robert C. Cooper has said that SG-1 will live on in some form (they just arn't ready to reveal anything yet) and 2.) Sci-fi does not own Stargat, MGM/Sony does. Sci-Fi has just been ordering episodes form them. Since it was MGM's idea to start the series in the first place, they may just move SG-1 to another channel, possibly even competing with Atlantis until they can move Atlantis as well.

In the end, we will just have to see how this plays out. The show has been threatened (and cancelled) several times over the years, but it keeps coming back. A week or two from now it may be announced that Sci-Fi has picked it up for another season.

If this is the end, it has been a good run. The little show that would not die is now the longest running Science Fiction show in the US, and some have speculated that it's over all popularity might soon surpase even Star Trek! as I said, if this is the end, it has been a good run.