Morjana attended the live chat at
SyFy Portal regarding this year's SyFy Genre Awards this evening. Congratulations to all the nominess and to the winners.
Stargate SG-1 was nominated for five awards and Stargate Atlantis for four awards.STARGATE SG-1Best Actress/Television
Nominated: Amanda Tapping, "Stargate SG-1"
-- Claudia Black, "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars" WON
Best Supporting Actor/Television
Nominated: Michael Shanks, "Stargate SG-1" - WON
Best Special Guest/Television
Nominated: Claudia Black, "Prometheus Unbound," Stargate SG-1 - WON
Best Episode/Television
Nominated: Prometheus Unbound," Stargate SG-1 - WON
Best Series/Television
Nominated: Stargate SG-1, SciFi Channel - WON
STARGATE ATLANTISBest Actor/Television
Nominated: Joe Flanigan, "Stargate: Atlantis"
-- Ben Browder, "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars" WON
Best Supporting Actor/Television
Nominated: David Hewlett, "Stargate: Atlantis"
-- Michael Shanks, "Stargate SG-1" WON
Best Supporting Actress/Television
Nominated: Rachel Luttrell, "Stargate: Atlantis"
-- Amy Acker, "Angel" WON
Best Series/Television
Nominated: Stargate: Atlantis, SciFi Channel
-- "Stargate SG-1" WON
Our thanks to Morjana of the
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Stargate SG-1 Premieres Friday, July 15 at 8/7C.
Stargate Atlantis Premiere Friday, July 15 at 9/8C.
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Richard Dean Anderson, who has played General Jack O'Neill for eight seasons on "Stargate SG-1," said he will not return as a series regular because he needs more time with his family, according to an interview with Now Playing magazine.
"My immediate future is, employment-wise, that I don't want to leave Los Angeles for a while," Anderson said. "I'd rather not do a series that would keep me end-to-end five days a week."
Rumors of Anderson's desire to reduce his role or leave the show altogether have circulated since the fifth season. To accommodate the actor, changes were made in how "SG-1" was produced.
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Our thanks to Morjana for this article from SciFiWeekly:
LETTERS TO THE EDITORSF Should Make Us Think, Not DroolI was encouraged in reading Ms. Catanzaro's note "Parents Must Be the
Ultimate Judge." I agree that we, as parents, must decide what is
appropriate for our children. After watching Revenge of the Sith, my
wife and I concluded that we would not even consider purchasing the
first three episodes on DVD. Unfortunately, my children did see the
movie. On the positive side, though, they were both disturbed by
several of the scenes and felt that the movie would have been better
without them.
One point to Mr. Olenick's note "We Must Make Our Own Choices": Do
explicit sex and foul writing make a show more interesting? There are
shows that are quite popular without going there.
Which brings me to the comments of Mr. Vogel's post "Sex Is Part of a
Profitable Formula." Sex may sell, but it's not the only thing that
sells. Stargate SG-1 does little more than suggest at intimacy.
Farscape, Star Trek: TNG and Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 are some
other popular SF series that didn't need to be explicit in sex or use
colorful metaphors as part of regular conversation to get their
ratings. Other non-SF shows have success without these hooks as well,
Monk, Law & Order, Nero Wolf Mysteries and many others. The shows
that are successful for a very long time hold an audience based on
quality writing of interesting stories. Though there are some shows
that use explicit behavior as a major plot feature do achieve
notoriety, they are few. My concern is not necessarily that BSG uses
them, which I think they really don't need to, but that the use may
be to the detriment of the series. The focus should be on telling a
good and interesting story that people will debate the issues that
the characters confront, not on how to fit another sex scene in each
week's episode. SF should make us think, not just drool.
Matt Seibert
Second Stargate SG-1 Promo for Season 2
The Sci Fi Channel aired a second sneak peek of Stargate SG-1's ninth season during their "Sci Fi Monday" Stargate SG-1 lineup. This clip shows small clips of a scene with Ben Browder.
Season nine of Stargate SG-1 is set to premiere July 15th on the Sci Fi Channel.
Find it over here at Pegasus Galaxy:
Click Here for the Stargate SG-1 Video Preview
From Morjana in Spoilergate:
SCI FI FRIDAY ORIGINAL SERIES (Sci Fi) - As a warm-up to the return of Sci Fi's Friday original lineup on July 15, the network has scheduled all-day marathons of all three series.
Each marathon will run from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. eastern time with "Battlestar Galactica" on Wednesday, July 6, "Stargate SG-1" on Thursday, July 7 and "Stargate Atlantis" on Friday, July 8.
No details however were given about exactly which episodes will air.
New SG-1 Season News
In 'Stargate SG-1' casting news, the talented adolescent actor Cameron Bright, who starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the feature film 'Birth,' has been cast in two new episodes this season. Bright will play a character named Orlin. The ninth season of 'SG-1' is set to premiere Friday, July 15th at 8pm (ET/PT) on SCI FI Channel.
In other 'SG-1' news, fans who attended the E3 Expo in Los Angeles two weeks ago were treated to a surprise meet and greet with Richard Dean Anderson. The Electronic Entertainment Expo showcases interactive entertainment and educational software. Anderson, who portrayed Colonel Jack O'Neill for eight seasons on 'Stargate SG-1,' shook hands and posed for photos to promote the new video game 'Stargate SG-1: The Alliance.'
