Directors Cut On The Shrine

“The Shrine” is one of the most emotionally powerful episodes of Stargate Atlantis to date, as viewers witness McKay’s tragic mental demise. Written by Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis co-creator Brad Wright, the episode heralds the former show-runner’s welcome return to scripting the show. Director Andy Mikita laughingly admits that the prospect of directing Wright’s … Read more

The Daedalus Variations Earns A 1.3 Rating

With all the recent turmoil and upset that Stargate Atlantis has been cancelled after the end of its 5th season in favour of movies, the same as Stargate SG1 has favoured recently we’ve all forgot that season five is still airing. The Deadalus Variations earned a 1.3 rating of viewer audiences in the United States … Read more

Stargate Atlantis Cancelled After 5 Seasons

The SCI FI Channel and MGM have decided to cancel Stargate Atlantis after its fifth season ends. The show will however continue on with a 2 hour movie that will air on the SCI FI channel in 2009 in the United States and with other global airing’s later on in the year. The film will … Read more

Broken Ties Continues High Viewer Ratings

Ratings for season five continue to be high and out strip estimates pointing towards a possible sixth season of the show. The third instalment of this seasons episodes saw Broken Ties earn an average viewer audience of 1.2 in the United States of America. According to the Executive Produder Joseph Mallozzi ‘The Deadalus Variations’ matched … Read more

The Seed Earns 1.1 Rating

The second episode of Stargate Atlantis fifth season  continues to prove a popular hit with SCI FI fans, the epiosde earned a 1.1 average of household ratings in the United States. This is slightly down on the season premiere which earned a 1.3 average rating of viewer audiences. Accord to the executive producer Joseph Mallozzi … Read more

Season Five To Continue Into The Fall

Stargate fans have even more reason to celebrate the fall in 2008. The SCI FI channel have confirmed that they will continue to air episodes of the new season five of Stargate Atlantis which began earlier this summer in the United States. What this means is there will be no winter break between episodes, leaving … Read more

Behind The Scenes Of The Deadalus Variations

“I hope fans enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it,” says writer/producer Alan McCullough of Stargate Atlantis‘ latest action-packed installment. The idea for the episode had occurred to McCullough way back at the beginning of season four, and when season five came around the producers felt it was time to put the story … Read more

Tivo Delay Causes Higher Ratings For Search & Rescue

The fifth season premiere of Stargate Atlantis ‘Search and Rescue’ added an additional 500,000 DVR viewers the following its official air date, it has been announced by the SCI Fi channel. Initially Seach and Rescue earned a 1.3 average household rating with 1.8 million viewers, but the live + 7 day number jumped to 2.4 … Read more

Behind The Scenes Of The Seed

Actress Jewel Staite is no stranger to the odd things that a performer can be asked to do as part of a science fiction television program. After all, she not only starred in Firefly, but her first introduction to the Pegasus galaxy was as a young Wraith. For the episode ‘The Seed’, however, she found … Read more

Season Five Premiere Receives Highest Ever Ratings

The season premiere of Stargate Atlantis has received its highest ever viewer audiences over any previous season. Search and Rescue kicked off the fifth season with an impressive 1.8 million total viewers, which was 6% up over the season four premiere episode Adrift. Overall the viewer rating for Search and Rescue reached a high of … Read more