Sci Fi Channel Schedules Mid-Season Summer Finales
As it usually does, the Sci Fi Channel is going to run mid-season finales to its original series in September and then resume showing them in 2006. Its reason for doing this is pretty simple. Going head to head with the big networks when they introduce all their new series and hype all their existing ones is tantamount to ratings suicide.
This year Sci Fi has planned two hour episodes for both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis as they bow out for the year. Battlestar Galactica, despite being the biggest ratings winner, will finish with an hour long episode.
Stargate SG-1’s summer finale titled “Prototype”/”The Fourth Horseman, Part 1″will be on Friday September 16th and run from 8pm to 10pm. Stargate Atlantis will then follow on September 23rd running from 8pm to 10pm with “Aurora”/”The Lost Boys”. As you can tell from the title these are clearly two episodes of each show squeezed together. So this is a scheduling decision, not a creative one.
Battlestar Galactica’s summer finale will also run on September 23rd in its usual 10pm timeslot. Its final episode of the year is titled “Pegasus”. Anyone who watched the original Battlestar Galactica should know the significance of that title.
You can expect to see all three series return in January when the second half of their 20 episode seasons will run.
Eoghann Irving is amongst other things the creator and Editor of Solar Flare. He has a life long interest in all forms of science fiction and fantasy and a pressing need to share this interest with anyone who will listen. Find out more at his personal website eoghann.com..
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