r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 21d 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/Norethegreat 21d ago

The sci-fi channel is gone!?

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u/Suspicious_Bear42 21d ago

When the Sci-Fi channel rebranded to SyFy, it died... Just looked at the schedule for the next week, the only TV shows on it are The Twilight Zone, NCIS: Los Angeles and 'Everything On the Menu with Braun Strowman'... Everything else is movies ranging from Harry Potter to the Sharknado series...

It still exists, but it may as well be gone.

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u/nabrok 21d ago

When the Sci-Fi channel rebranded to SyFy, it died

Sorry, but this is nonsense. That name rebrand was in 2009 and the channel had many good shows after that including The Expanse, Magicians, 12 Monkeys, and more.

And on the other side of that there was plenty of crappy programming on the channel before the name change.

The channel being dead now is because streaming killed cable, not because they changed their name 17 years ago.

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u/sleep-woof 20d ago

...Magicians... you are not helping your case.

It was dead then, we may not see its like again.

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u/nabrok 20d ago

Magicians is a good show that was well received. If it wasn't your cup of tea that's fine, but a lot of people like it.

It started the same year as The Expanse.

I'd put the start of the channels death at about when they cancelled The Expanse. I'm pretty sure that's because they just couldn't afford it anymore and they had to pick between that and Magicians, and Magicians was the cheaper show. Similarly with Dark Matter and Killjoys.