31
MAR 03: SCI
FI CHANNEL PRESS RELEASE: SCI FI ANNOUNCE DEVELOPMENT OF STARGATE: ATLANTIS
FOR 2004-05
March 31, 2003 SCI FI CHANNEL DOUBLES DRAMATIC
SERIES DEVELOPMENT
SCI FI Channel, already a leader
in original dramatic series in cable, announced today that it has doubled
its series development for '04-'05. The ambitious new programming
slate broadens the reach of the Channel by traveling through the varied
universes of comic book publishing, celebrity producers and A-list writers
-- as well as the ever-expanding cosmos of SCI FI's successful Stargate
franchise. Projects include:
Stargate: Atlantis -- A whole
new adventure with a new team begins in the successful Stargate universe.
In this spin-off from MGM Worldwide Television, a secret base left by the
originators of the Stargate is found in the most unlikely of places-on
Earth buried within the ruins of the legendary civilization Atlantis. The
implications of this discovery lead the team to a distant universe, where
they find a primitive human civilization threatened by a sinister new enemy.