Stargate Universe TV series cancelled by Syfy

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      Syfy announced that it will cancel the latest entry in the long-running Vancouver-shot Stargate franchise, the TV series Stargate Universe.

      After the remaining 10 episodes of season two air in the spring of 2011, the Stargate Universe will end.

      Syfy had also previously cancelled the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, which was also shot in Vancouver.

      The Stargate franchise included Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Universe, which have aired since 1994. There has also been an animated series, Stargate Infinity, straight-to-DVD movies (Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Stargate: Continuum), and video games, books, and comics.

      Stargate Universe won six Leo Awards (B.C.'s film and TV awards) in June, after receiving sixteen nominations. The series also received four nominations for Gemini Awards, including best dramatic series and best director (Andy Mikita). SGU stars Robert Carlysle and Louis Ferreira were both nominated for best actor, with Carlysle winning the Gemini Award in November.

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      17 Comments

      Michael Rhian Driscoll

      Dec 17, 2010 at 11:08am

      Kinda too bad, but I feel that both franchise were pretty much played out. Just hope they will be allowed to wrap things up.

      spock

      Dec 17, 2010 at 6:05pm

      illogical.

      Migzy

      Dec 17, 2010 at 6:55pm

      This sucks bigtime!! They cancel SG1 in the middle of a story arc when they could have gone one more year to finish it, they cancel SGA before the main story arc of the wraith came to a conclusion, and now cancel SGU just as things were finally all meshing together between the cast members, writing, etc... Stupid syfy!!

      zhyaxxion

      Dec 18, 2010 at 7:32am

      Amazes me this , just when the show finds its feet , and the characters are coming into there own , good old syfy decides to pull the plug, really annoys me this, thought they were a sci fi enthusiast channel, shame some useless soaps or reality programs cant get axed more often , people really love brain dead television, anything that requires a little imagination gets shunned

      travisty

      Dec 18, 2010 at 10:17am

      This is terrible! The story was awesome and the change in writing style from SG-1 to SGU was really good, and the cast was incredible! I had the distinct opportunity to be on the show a number of times, and the entire operation from the cast to the crew were amazing. What a shame. Way to go syfy. Were you not making enough money?!

      Steve Everett

      Dec 18, 2010 at 9:48pm

      Sadly, I have the distinct feeling that they were looking at production costs not the awards that SGU garnered. It seems that the SyFy Channel wants genreic brainless Star Trek mind fodder which SGU was. SGU was everything that ST Voyager could and should have been. At least here in Canada we'll be able to watch all the final episodes that you guys won't be able to do in the states. The same story for Caprica too.

      soundspeed

      Dec 19, 2010 at 9:58am

      SyFy cancelled it because it wasn't getting good ratings. All the awards and fandom in the world can't make up for the fact that not enough people were tuning in to watch it. It's a TV network and their bottom line is that people have to tune into their programming.

      They'll probably just make up another SG based series next month, like Stargate Galaxy or whatever.

      chris Zeeker

      Dec 19, 2010 at 12:06pm

      I was trying to hold on till it got better. It's just way to dark, and depressing. I couldn't even associate with some of the Destiny's crew, because they were so evil. Instead of a cool, team that mostly works together, there was so much arrogance that it made it painful to watch.

      Half the battles were still fighting each other even after a year of the crew being together.

      The things that I'd like to see are. Cool new technologies. Characters that can have fun, but have a mission. A close knit cast who fight aliens/others but not much infighting against themselves.

      Heather Wood

      Dec 22, 2010 at 5:47pm

      @ Christ Zeeker - for us it was a year, for the crew, even at the halfway mark of season 2, they hadn't been there for a year. And yeah, it's a dark show- which makes more sense for a dark, forboding universe.

      I don't want to watch any more happy little human villiages that all speak english, where the most we can hope for in "aliens" is the asgard- still human shaped that again, speak english.

      I want character development. SGU delivered. I want plot. SGU delivered. I want awesome space battles, but not all the time because that doesn't make sense. SGU delivered. I want that smear of chloe's blood on Eli's hoodie to never quite go the frak away!

      I want dead babies (okay, that sounded weird, I'll admit), fights between crew, weird little happy moments, actual back story.

      I want Stargate Universe.

      Simon Poirier

      Dec 25, 2010 at 6:22pm

      To bad, it was a realy nice serie to watch, much better then the original serie, more realistic, less children play. Another year and they will have a winner series in there hand. With a lot of money arround the corner.