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    SciFi Weekly: 2004 Fall SF TV Preview

    From SciFi Weekly:

    http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/screen.html

    (Please follow the link for the complete article. There are photos at
    the site.)

    2004 Fall SF TV Preview:
    Part II

    By Kathie Huddleston

    **snippity doo dah**

    Which brings us to cable. The ability to offer alternative television
    is one of the reasons the SCI FI Channel and USA Network have become
    so popular. So, yes, we've lost syndication (and Mutant X). And yes,
    network television is evolving into a more marginal area of the genre
    that the genre-phobic folks can appreciate. However, the list below
    of upcoming projects, movies and miniseries holds great promise.

    Ratings for the SCI FI Channel are growing by leaps and bounds with
    the help of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis and miniseries events
    such as Dune and Taken. Andromeda moves to SCI FI, while Farscape:
    The Peacekeeper Wars premieres in October. Ursula K. Le Guin's
    Earthsea will air in December, and the Battlestar Galactica series is
    set for early next year.

    As for USA Network, the summer run of The 4400 was a ratings success,
    and The Dead Zone has been renewed for another year. Other cable
    channels with sci-fi or fantasy interests include TNT, Lifetime,
    Showtime, HBO, The Cartoon Network, The Hallmark Channel, MTV, Court
    TV, BBC, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel and Bravo. That's not a bad
    list. And these cable channels know something that the networks have
    just figured out: You can put on good television any time of the year
    and people will watch. Maybe not 20 or 30 million of them, but enough
    to do cable proud.



    Returning and Continuing Shows


    Stargate Atlantis
    SCI FI, Friday, 10 p.m.
    Season one resumes January 2005


    As season one of Stargate Atlantis got under way, the team from Earth
    made some friends and some enemies in the Pegasus Galaxy. But the
    worst of it was the awakening of the life-sucking Wraith,
    intergalactic vampires who chow down on whatever local population is
    at hand. They were supposed to stay in hibernation for decades, but
    the Earthlings accidentally took care of that. In the midseason
    finale, the new Atlantians discover an enormous storm is headed their
    way, which may destroy the city. They realize they have to gate
    offworld. Unfortunately, the Genii discover their plan and seize the
    facility, taking Dr. Weir and Rodney hostage. When Maj. Sheppard
    kills two of the bad guys who were sent to kill him, Weir is about to
    be executed in retaliation just as the storm bears down on Atlantis.


    The Outlook: In many ways, Stargate Atlantis revisits the early days
    of SG-1, when the team was still more busy exploring and getting into
    trouble than it was fighting intergalactic wars and saving the Earth.
    Both shows are doing very well for the channel, and Atlantis should
    have a nice long life ahead of it. That is, assuming Weir doesn't get
    shot and that nasty storm doesn't wipe out the city. Oh, and that
    Sheppard manages to kick bad-guy butt and take Atlantis back. He just
    might be able to do that, you know. He's not quite Jack O'Neill, but
    he's working on it.



    Stargate SG-1
    SCI FI, Friday, 9 p.m.
    Season eight resumes January 2005

    After his big promotion, Brig. Gen. Jack O'Neill has been getting
    settled in his new job running the SGC. He has to meet with aliens
    and the president while his old team gets to have most of the fun and
    go on missions. In the midseason finale, Jack even had to tell the
    president that the Stargate had vanished. Lt. Col. Carter and Dr.
    Daniel Jackson leapt into action to hunt down the missing gate, while
    Teal'c was trapped offworld, only to discover that millions of Jaffa
    had been killed in separate attacks with some sort of weapon. It
    seems The Trust, those nasty rogue agents from the NID, hijacked the
    gate, cooked up some symbiote killing gas and used a missile to
    attack. Fortunately, Carter, Daniel and Teal'c managed to save the
    day and get the gate back where it belonged. In the second half of
    the season, look for The Trust to cause more trouble and for Jack to
    figure out a way to go on a mission or two.


    The Outlook: In its eighth season, Stargate SG-1 has been getting big
    ratings, which have only been outshined by the new upstart Stargate
    Atlantis. While I'd like to see the series be a little less Earth-
    bound than it has been in recent weeks, it's still good to watch
    these old friends and their Stargate adventures. So will there be a
    ninth season? There's no doubt SCI FI will want one. Look for
    Stargate to continue as long as Richard Dean Anderson wants to do it.



    **MAJOR snippity doo-dah**


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