"Stargate: SG1" (the parent series) will return to Netflix near 2026, the others will remain with Prime.
New StarGate series Prime Video.
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Sg1 and Atlantis have the "Leaving in X Days" on the Primo, so yeah. Didn't see it on UNIVERSE!
It’s going to be awhile. They said it could be two years before the show is out
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
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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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?
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.
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.
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.
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)
Simple. They were still making money. Thats why there were season after season.
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.
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