Stargate Atlantis Gone at End of Season, but New SG Universe Next Year?

Hi all… My wife and I were sucked into Stargate: SG-1 over the last few seasons of that show and then into Stargate: Atlantis … And this week, we find out that Atlantis is heading the way of SG-1 at the end of this season. Evidently five seasons is enough before you end the TV run and start making direct-to-DVD movies of a franchise. Atlantis is to bow in January 2009, and a DVD movie will pick up the end of the cliff-hanger episode (you can see that press release here ). According to an MGM press release (available here ), Stargate Universe will be the next series to arrive in the Stargate… um… Universe… next summer. Production is to start early next year, with the shows premiering sometime in summer 2009. Stargate Universe, according to the release, sounds a lot like Star Trek Voyager, which is troubling. “Wright and Cooper said: “In ‘Universe,’ we plan to keep those elements that have made the franchis...