Sci Fi Channel has announced that it has ordered a 10th season of Stargate SG-1 and a third season of its spinoff series, Stargate Atlantis. Production on both 20-episode seasons is slated to begin in early 2006 for summer premieres on SCI FI.
Heading into a 10th season, Stargate SG-1 becomes the longest-running SF drama in American television history, outlasting The X-Files, The Twilight Zone and every iteration of Star Trek. The first half of SG-1's ninth season has averaged 2.4 million viewers per week.
Stargate Atlantis has averaged more than 2.3 million viewers a week for the first half of its sophomore season. SG-1 co-creator Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper will return as executive producers on both series.
Both air on Fridays, ahead of Sci Fi hit "Battlestar Galactica", which the network has not yet renewed (though its almost certain it will). All three shows begin airing the second half of their current seasons in January.
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