The press coverage of Sci Fi’s cancellation of SG-1 continues at a rapid pace. Some highlights follow.<\/p>\n
Via his publicist, Michael Shanks made a brief statement via his publicist. Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Maureen Ryan is a long-time SG-1 fan and commentator.<\/p>\n It’s surprising and shabby treatment for “Stargate SG-1,” which helped Sci Fi emerge from the margins of the basic-cable world and gave the network a steady rock on which to build the rest of its programming. One would have thought that the powers that be at Sci Fi Channel would let the show’s cast, crew and fans celebrate the much-lauded “200” without pulling the plug on the program so abruptly and with such frankly terrible timing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read the whole article.<\/a><\/p>\n Looks like the on-line game will cost more than a season of a Stargate!<\/p>\n However, there are some signs of life in the show and it’s not just the MMO (massive multiplayer online) game that is\u00a0due out in the fourth quarter of 2007 and\u00a0that MGM, which owns the Stargate franchise, is sinking $40-50 million into. While executive producer Brad Wright tells TV Guide his “dream is to take SG-1 back to the feature it began as,” we are now hearing that\u00a0MGM may produce a series of TV-movies based on the mother-ship series.<\/p>\n Pondering the idea of at least one movie, Wright says that\u00a0the show’s finale \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the last 10 episodes should begin unspooling around March \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00a0“should be a very satisfying end to the season, but not necessarily an end to SG-1 by any means.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read the whole article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More Reactions and News on SG-1 Cancellation The press coverage of Sci Fi’s cancellation of SG-1 continues at a rapid pace. Some highlights follow. Michael Shanks makes a brief statement Via his publicist, Michael Shanks made a brief statement via his publicist. Read it here. Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune comments Maureen Ryan is … Continue reading “More Press Coverage of Cancellation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-michael-shanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune comments<\/h3>\n
TV Guide Insider \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Brad Wright responds<\/h3>\n