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New StarGate series Prime Video.

I saw something a day or two ago that SG-1 was going to be on Netflix. So does that mean it's not on Prime video anymore or on both?

I wonder if that helps or hurts possible specific appearances/references in a new Stargate show? Maybe it being on Netflix actually adds some newer/return viewers and helps a new Amazon series?
Sg1 and Atlantis have the "Leaving in X Days" on the Primo, so yeah. Didn't see it on UNIVERSE!
 
In Canada we have SG-1 on Crave which is where I've been watching it, but none of the other series are on there.

All the series and movies (including Infinity) are Prime but only if you get the MGM addon.

I do have every series complete on DVD, but streaming is so much more convenient lmao
 
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Amazon doesn't have the best track record with shows lasting more than a couple of seasons
O Rly? The Man in the High Castle ran for four seasons. Jack Ryan ran for four seasons. Reacher has a fourth season in production. The Boys will have five seasons. Invincible is currently renewed through to a fifth season. Fallout is renewed through to a third season.
 
3 to 4 season expectation?

Long gone are the grueling 22 episodes churn out and a magic number of 7 seasons.

I don't know how Smallville, Stargate and Supernatural got away with 10+ seasons. Is it because

-it was cheap to make?
-A really kind production company?
 
afaik, the minimum magic number used to be 100 episodes.
So that a show could get sold for syndication rights to other TV stations/broadcasters and the lucrative reruns in North America. Also helped get broadcast deals across the world, if more "inventory" aka episodes/seasons were sold.
 
I don't know how Smallville, Stargate and Supernatural got away with 10+ seasons. Is it because

They weren't streaming shows, for one thing. And Stargate SG-1 actually had only five seasons on Showtime and five on Syfy. Five seasons was generally a maximum run for basic-cable shows -- no Sci-Fi Channel/Syfy show ever had more than five seasons on the network itself -- so SG-1 kind of got a reset by moving networks.

Supernatural was on The CW for all but its first season, and The CW was in kind of an unusual situation, because it had some kind of redistribution deal with Netflix (I think) that made it less necessary for their shows to turn a profit on The CW itself, so that it was able to keep renewing low-rated shows that would've been cancelled on any other network. (The Arrowverse would never have existed without this, and ceased to exist not long after that deal ended.)

Smallville was just kind of exceptional. The makers themselves only planned a five-year run, so in later seasons they had to scramble to come up with new material and stretch out Clark's pre-Superman years longer than they ever intended, and it showed. (I gather Supernatural also struggled to come up with stories beyond its originally planned five-year run.)

One thing that benefitted Supernatural was probably that it had only 2-3 regular characters for most of its run, and only three who were main cast members for more than three seasons. Cast and crew members get raises for every season, so shows get more expensive to make with every season. It helps if a show has a small main cast, or if it has frequent cast rotation, lots of cast members leaving and new ones replacing them. (This is how the Power Rangers franchise managed to last 30 years, by starting over with a new cast of low-paid novice actors every 1-2 seasons.) By its final season, Smallville had only one of its original regulars left and had reduced its core cast to only four regulars and one recurring.
 
Supernatural was only intended for five seasons, and indeed after the fifth season the show's creator and many of the writers who were there since the start left because they told the story they wanted to. But the show was still popular, CW didn't want to let it go. There were writers who wanted to keep going, and the actors were willing to stay on, so it got renewed and kept going.
 
Supernatural was only intended for five seasons, and indeed after the fifth season the show's creator and many of the writers who were there since the start left because they told the story they wanted to. But the show was still popular, CW didn't want to let it go. There were writers who wanted to keep going, and the actors were willing to stay on, so it got renewed and kept going.


It's amazing both the leads stayed and neither of them took a year off or just left (Michael Shanks/Stargate SG-1) (Michael Rosenbaum/Smallville)
 
I saw something a day or two ago that SG-1 was going to be on Netflix. So does that mean it's not on Prime video anymore or on both?

I wonder if that helps or hurts possible specific appearances/references in a new Stargate show? Maybe it being on Netflix actually adds some newer/return viewers and helps a new Amazon series?
Depends on the licensing agreement MGM made with Netflix. That's what they're probably following.

It'll eventually come back home to Amazon Prime.

The same thing happened with the Star Trek feature films about a year or so ago. For a time they were not available on Paramount Plus because a deal had been made with HBO to stream them there for a few months.
 
I'm 90% certain they will probably film in Vancouver, at least have their standing sets built there. Martin Gero is running the show, and IIRC most shows he was worked on or even run have all been produced in Vancouver. Maybe they might get a bit more ambitious about location shoots besides the omnipresent Vancouver pine forest that dominated every galaxy seen in the other Stargate shows.

As for the SG team leader, I wouldn't be too shocked if they did decide to go with an O'Neill or Sheppard style sarcastic smartass who is instead a woman. And/or the commander of the SGC is a woman. Hell, Carter should be a General by now, they can have her running the SGC.
Carter as head of the SGC would be the perfect connection to the original show.
I was talking about that earlier in the thread and as I recall, somebody said it was public later in the series. I could imagine by now there are paid Stargate tours. Take people to "safe" planets for like a trip, kind of a variation on Jurassic Park. Go to have fun, but oops -- something tries to kill you.
At least as of the first season of Universe, the program wasn't completely public, it was just that most of the major world governments were now aware of it, the regular people on the street still didn't know about it. It was even a major part of Atlantis that they were an internation operation, with people from all over the world there.
 
At least as of the first season of Universe, the program wasn't completely public, it was just that most of the major world governments were now aware of it, the regular people on the street still didn't know about it. It was even a major part of Atlantis that they were an internation operation, with people from all over the world there.

Which is exactly why it was so narratively pointless to keep the general public in the dark at that point, since secrecy was no longer a meaningful story device when so many governments, businesses, scientists, etc. around the world were in the loop already.
 
Yeah, I never got that either. It seemed like every other episode in the later seasons they were bringing in some random person who was aware of the Stargate Program even though no one outside of the governments was supposed to know about.
 
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