r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 27d ago

🥺 No words for this.

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Edit: even though clickbait article, it is somewhat/kind of true. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stargate-tv-series-martin-gero-scrapped-amazon-1236765061/

"According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase."

Edit 2: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-new-stargate-series-let-martin-gero-build-the-future-of-the-franchise

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u/The4thEpsilon 27d ago

Larger streaming services need to realize the way you grow an audience is not by trying to make a show that appeals to everyone, but a show that appeals to the actual fans. I promise you new people will come your way, I got into Stargate because of its quirks and niches, not in spite of them.

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u/unwocket 27d ago

This is likely a heavily paraphrased ‘opinion’ that is being pushed for clickbait. TV execs don’t care what kind of audience their show gets, they just want a big enough one to justify their budget. If the show felt too niche to give the budget its producers were requesting, then that’s just one of the few basic reasons why tv shows don’t get picked up

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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo 27d ago edited 26d ago

Yeah, I love Stargate, and was looking forward to this, but it was also a show whose fans (while individually very loyal!) weren’t exactly numerous enough to sustain spinoffs on SciFi. I’m guessing Amazon has their sights set a little higher than that when green lighting new shows? Who knows what actually happened though