Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

A while back I reported that both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis had been renewed for a further season, but at that time I’d heard nothing about any casting changes. Well now it seems that there may be at least one such change.

According to actress Amanda Tapping who plays Samantha Carter there are discussions about who to use her character in the next season. Tapping said that all the other…

This news isn’t really much of a surprise, but its good news for fans of the Stargate series. The Sci Fi Channel has announced that it has renewed Stargate SG-1 for a 10th season and Stargate Atlantis for a third season.

Both series will begin production of their 20 episode seasons in early 2006 for a summer 2006 premiere. SG-1 and Atlantis are both in a mid-season break right now with…

Ratings are starting to come in from the syndication market for the new shows this year. Ratings for syndicated shows have been steadily sliding for years, but this years numbers look similar to last years.

Stargate Atlantist scored a 1.7 rating for its first syndicated episode Rising, Part 1. That’s in line with the ratings that Stargate SG-1 managed last year in syndication. Since both SG-1 and Atlantis air on FOX,…

The DVD boxed set of Stargate Atlantis Season 1 will be released on November 15th. Stargate Atlantis is a spin-off from the long running SciFi series Stargate SG-1. This boxed set will feature all the episodes from the first season of the show.

When SG-1 discovers what they believe to be the remnants of the Lost City of the Ancients - the originators of the Stargates -…

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…