It wasn’t enough that they cancelled Stargate SG-1 and announced it during their historic 200th episode. Now, they are using their contract with MGM, the franchise owner, to block any possible television use. To wit:
“There is not going to be [an 11th season] on U.S. television,” Mark Stern, SCI FI’s executive vice president of programming, told Multichannel flatly. “Our contract with MGM prohibits it.”
Of course, that’s a lie. Their contract gives SciFi the opportunity to prohibit such a move at the network’s sole discretion. They could be nice and let Showtime, G4, Spike, or another channel pick it up and carry it forward in partnership with MGM. But no! SciFi executives so love their roles as galactic asshole brats that they would never allow such a thing.
Instead, they’re all: “No! No! NOOOOO! We’re not gonna let you do it. We don’t want to play with this toy anymore, but that doesn’t mean you can play with it now. Instead, we’ll break it so you can’t…”
Yes, that’s the level of maturity being displayed by these overpaid anuses. Just watch them stomp their little feet and cry big ol’ alligator tears as they declare that no one gets to play with SG-1 anymore. Because they say so, that’s why.
What a pathetic bunch of creepy bullies who just want to strong arm everyone so they can permanently kill the show.
Let’s be clear about one thing. The show is not a failure and, while it suffered ratings losses due to SciFi’s poor management and idiotic scheduling, it is by no means a financial loss.
…nearly 2 million viewers still tune in to the venerable sci-fi hit. The show also airs to millions of viewers in 120 countries worldwide, earns the company extra money in U.S. syndication and on DVD, and supports fan conventions and a broad array of licensed merchanise [sic].
It all boils down to the children running the SciFi Channel. They don’t want to play in the sandbox anymore, so they intend to piss in it so no one else can play there either.
Thankfully, MGM has no intention of allowing the franchise to die at the hands of a pitifully immature contract holder. They appear quite serious about pursuing other avenues. Good for them.