The Sci-Fi channel has announced that its decided to no renew Stargate SG-1 for an 11th season but will renew Stargate: Atlantis for its 4th season. This brings to a close the longest running sci-fi show in American television with 215 episodes. Ironically, the show just celebrated its 200 episode this weekend.
The reasons for the cancellation where not indicated but speculation is that MGM, owners of the series, are planning launch a feature film from the series. This has been off on on plans for the series for several years now with speculation for the end of the 7th and 8th seasons before plans fell through. The first half of this final season of Stargate ends in about two weeks before it takes it final bows in January 2007. What form the shows takes after that, only the producers now.
The announcement text can read here.
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