'Stargates' Keep Running at Sci Fi

[Sean Mota]

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) The Sci Fi Channel plans to keep its successful Friday-night lineup humming for the foreseeable future, picking up both editions of "Stargate" for another season.
The cable network has picked up 20 new episodes of both "Stargate SG-1" and "Stargate Atlantis," with production set to begin on the two shows early next year. The new seasons will debut in the summer of 2006.

"SG-1" will enter its 10th season (the first five aired on Showtime) next summer, making it, Sci Fi says, the longest-running science-fiction drama in the history of American television. Previous record holder "The X-Files" lasted nine seasons on FOX; three "Star Trek" series -- "The Next Generation," "Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager" -- ran for seven seasons.


"Atlantis," meanwhile, will get its third season. Both it and its predecessor averaged better than 2 million viewers per week for their most recent run of new episodes over the summer, and along with "Battlestar Galactica," have made Sci Fi the top cable network on Fridays for the young-adult viewers that are the lifeblood of the business.
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[raymo721]

I want these in HD!! Any chance it'll ever happen??--Ray

 

[Pepper]

I see they had to qualify it as longest-running on "American television", thus no mention of the Doctor.

 

[voomvoom]

Dr. Who?

Al

 

[dfergie]

Good News... need um in HD though

 

[korsjs]

i thought one of them was filmed in hd and would eventually be on universal hd.

 

[dfergie]

They did show Season one of Battlestar in Hd on D* ... waiting for the first part of Season Two of Galactica...

 

[Van]

Anyone know if the entire run of Dr Who is available on dvd format yet? How about space 1999, I remember watching that show on tv when I was a kid just big enough to ride a big wheel in my grandparents driveway.