Here is the news...

[tielan]

It seems that SGA has been renewed for another season, while SG1 has been cancelled.

All in all, it's not terribly surprising news.

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Comments

[tielan]

Well, I suspect that if Atlantis doesn't perform well in the next year or two, then it'll get the boot as well.

Or Skiffy might just try to get SGA to the 100th ep and then dump it.

And there's apparently another Stargate spin-off on the cards. So depending on how that performs, SGA may find itself in SG1's position...

[cherryblosomjen.livejournal.com]

Or Skiffy might just try to get SGA to the 100th ep and then dump it.

There's grattitude for ya.

[ladysarahjane.livejournal.com]

That's what I don't get. Why cancel SG-1 if you're in talks to do another spin-off. How are they planning to launch a third show?

You can't just launch a spin-off (unless is about the Ancients in their time) without the first show because SGA certainly is going to be able to launch a spin-off on its own.

To be honest, I don't think SGA will last long without SG-1, let alone a third show. Most (not all but most) spin-offs don't survive without the first show.

They may have been able to pull it off had SGA stayed isolated from SG-1 (like it had during the first season) but there's too much interconnection between the two for SGA to survive on its own.

[tielan]

Don't ask me how the television executive's mind works - I'm just a lowly fan! :)

It is a big pity for Atlantis that they've cancelled SG-1, especially since they were building the 'gate-bridge' from Pegasus to the Milky Way - it would have given an interesting opportunity for semi-regular crossovers with blends and reblends of the characters in different situations.

Whether TPTB would have taken up those opportunities is another situation entirely.

To be honest, I'd give SGA until the 100th episode, after that, it's all up in the air. Showtime only kept SG1 for five years before putting it up for Skiffy.

[ladysarahjane.livejournal.com]

That's true. We were having quiet a bit of crossovers this season (compared to the past that is) and the gate bridge would have probably blended the two shows together even more.

As for SGA and their 100th episode. Is it just me or is this a growing trend? Most shows seem to be ending once they hit the end of five seasons. It's like their cut off mark or something, no matter what the ratings are.

[tielan]

It may be to do with writing arcs. After five seasons, things start blurring into each other a little and if you're living from season to season (the way most shows have to these days) rather than from an overarching story arc, then you start to encounter the problem of 'only so many stories to be told' and the difficulty of working out how to develop new ones.

Then again, as shown, it's not the writers who determine what shows keep going.

It might just be that TV channels want new shows for new audiences, rebranding and adjusting their 'franchise' as they go along.

[ladysarahjane.livejournal.com]

Most writers are good enough to give new faces to old stories and make them "almost" new again. But like you said it's not the writers that get to determine.

Either I'm getting old or networks are trying to appeal to younger and younger audiences. I'm always hearing all this talk to trying to target the 18-24 group. Which is intreasting because I fall in that group and the networks keep trying to appeal to my age group but I'm just getting turned off.

[tielan]

It might be that they're trying stuff like The OC and Veronica Mars - with "younger, edgier characters" to get the 18-24 group.

[ladysarahjane.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, at least in my circle of friends, is we're turned off my shows like THE OC and VERONICA MARS. We're more Law & Order, Crossing Jordan, Stargate folk. They have drama yes, but not the OVER crazy soap opera drama that for some reason TV executives think the 18-24 group is attracted to. Overdramatic is overkill.

[tielan]

Unfortunately, the Stereotype knows all and the Stereotype dictates all.

:-/

[ladysarahjane.livejournal.com]

*frowns*