Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

The Sci Fi Channel have announced that Claudia Black, who played Vala in several episodes of this season of Stargate SG-1, will be joining the regular cast of SG-1 for it’s 10th season. Black, who was previously best known to science fiction fans for her role in Farscape (though I seem to recall an episode of Hercules…) will be joining Ben Browder (also from Farscape), Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael…

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,…