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Article: `Stargate Atlantis,' premiering Friday on Sci Fi Channel.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2004
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Byline: Chauncey Mabe
The success of "Stargate SG-1" has always been a head-scratcher. Really, there's little difference in storytelling or production quality between this show and, say, "First Wave," "Forever Knight," "The PSI Factor," "Andromeda" or any of the other competent, made-in-Canada mediocrities that fill up the cable dial.
And yet "Stargate SG-1" boasts an international following of 17 million weekly viewers in 64 countries. It's entering its eighth year of production, meaning it's lasted longer than "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
Now the show's producers hope to parlay that popularity into a spinoff, starting Friday on the Sci ...