O'Neil returns to Stargate (spoilers for ep 200

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=35204

Richard Dean Anderson, former star and executive producer of Stargate SG-1, returns to the series for its historic 200th original episode, SCI FI Channel announced. Production on the bicentennial episode begins April 5 in Vancouver, Canada. Anderson, who will be reprising the role of Gen. Jack O'Neill, will also make special guest appearances in a number of episodes of both SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis that will air in the upcoming new seasons, which are slated to premiere this summer.

Stargate SG-1's 200th episode, "200," will center on the SG-1 team as they serve as advisors on a television series that bears remarkable similarities to the goings-on at Stargate Command. As they pitch to the producer the many adventures that they have been involved with over the years, the team discovers that truth really is stranger than fiction, but that nothing is stranger than the machinations of Hollywood. In addition to Anderson, "200" will feature a guest appearance by fan favorite Willie Garson (Sex & the City).

Currently in production on its 10th original season (its fifth on SCI FI), Stargate SG-1 is now the longest-running SF series on American television, surpassing The X-Files and every iteration of Star Trek.

Executive-produced by Robert C. Cooper and co-creator Brad Wright, Stargate SG-1 stars Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Claudia Black and Beau Bridges. SG-1 is produced by Double Secret Productions, in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Sony Pictures Television.

Raph's Girl note: YAY!!! Jack's back!!! :evilgrin:

[ZariusTwo]

Currently in production on its 10th original season (its fifth on SCI FI), Stargate SG-1 is now the longest-running SF series on American television, surpassing The X-Files and every iteration of Star Trek.


*Cough*

http://prkickdino.ytmnd.com/

:P

14 years, and running.

[Raph's Girl]

Power Rangers started in Japan....they're talking about shows that started in the U.S.

[Anarky]

Power Rangers started in Japan....they're talking about shows that started in the U.S.
Power Rangers didn't start in Japan. It started in the US. The sentai-footage the Power Rangers use is from Japan, not the show itself. Slight difference there, factual error in your newssource.

[ZariusTwo]

Power Rangers started in Japan....they're talking about shows that started in the U.S.

What Anark said. The show may have started in 1992 using the Sentai footage it uses to this day, but it was more than just "cut and paste" stuff from Japan except in Zord and occasional monster appearances and battles, it had its' own storylines and characters. Hence it was for the most part a completly american product.

[iris]

Willie Garson! WAZZUP.....

MARTIN!!! :D

But ya know, I can't believe Wormhole X-Treme is still on the air. Maybe it's got spin-offs. Wormhole: Undersea Fortress!

Power Rangers started in Japan....they're talking about shows that started in the U.S.
Maybe the operative fact is that Power Rangers is not completely classified as a Scifi show.

[Raph's Girl]

But ya know, I can't believe Wormhole X-Treme is still on the air. Maybe it's got spin-offs. Wormhole: Undersea Fortress!


Wormhole X-Treme is not still on the air. The ep that had Dan Castelenata (SP?) in it mentioned that the series was cancelled after one episode.

I got info from some of my contacts and they're saying this is a sequel/spin-off to Wormhole X-Treme and that they might be using....*drumroll*

Muppets! :lol:

So this would be Farscape Wormhole X-Treme or something. :P

[ZariusTwo]

Willie Garson! WAZZUP.....

MARTIN!!! :D

But ya know, I can't believe Wormhole X-Treme is still on the air. Maybe it's got spin-offs. Wormhole: Undersea Fortress!


Maybe the operative fact is that Power Rangers is not completely classified as a Scifi show.

Thats' probably because it shares the same canon as Eastenders...not because its' a childrens' show, though thats' the "official" reason:P

[iris]

Zarius, I was actually thinking that PR seems to sometimes be classified as a Fantasy series...

Wormhole X-Treme is not still on the air. The ep that had Dan Castelenata (SP?) in it mentioned that the series was cancelled after one episode.

I got info from some of my contacts and they're saying this is a sequel/spin-off to Wormhole X-Treme and that they might be using....*drumroll*

Muppets! :lol:

So this would be Farscape Wormhole X-Treme or something. :P
Oh yeah... Citizen Joe?... the Simpsons?... Burns as a goauld! It all makes sense. I must have missed the part about Wormhole X-Treme.

I wonder what they will call this new show. And will it be set on a ship... a living ship...

[Jester]

Wasn't there an episode in a past season that had a similar plot point?

[iris]

I think so, Jester...Would you mean "Wormhole X-Treme"?

The fun of that ep was the parody of Stargate. Maybe they're planning on parodying Farscape this time?

The description of 200 makes it sound like a parody of a clip show of a parody of a scifi show... if that makes any sense.

[Turtledude2k3]

thank you for mentioning power rangers.. it is longer!! over 500 episodes and still strong..

Power rangers actually started in 1993 not 1992.

It is fully american with sentai footage of course..

It considered an fatnasy scifi show.. It does have space stuff in it, etc..

also in that link with tommy kicking a dinosaur from dino thunder, that theme is not the real mighty morphin power ranger theme.

[ZariusTwo]

also in that link with tommy kicking a dinosaur from dino thunder, that theme is not the real mighty morphin power ranger theme.

Woah, are'nt you the master of ceromonies?:roll:

Dude...do we need every little peice of detail contained in a little joke reminder of what really lasts longer spelled out for us just so you can demontrate you know a few things that ANYONE bloody knows?

[Turtledude2k3]

Woah, are'nt you the master of ceromonies?:roll:

Dude...do we need every little peice of detail contained in a little joke reminder of what really lasts longer spelled out for us just so you can demontrate you know a few things that ANYONE bloody knows?

Lol I know. Am I great? I just want to make sure people know..

Just like raph's girl always bring us the news..

[Raph's Girl]

More info on the 200th ep. It's not a spin-off of Wormhole X-Treme...it's an homage/spoof of Serenity/Firefly! :lol:

Brad Wright, co-creator of SCI FI Channel's original series Stargate SG-1, offered SCI FI Wire a few spoilers on the show's upcoming 200th episode, which tips its hat to a much shorter-lived SF series about civil-war veterans in space. The episode will be part of the 10th season, which debuts this summer.

The 200th episode will bring back the character of Martin Lloyd (Willy Garson) and his fictional TV show Wormhole X-treme, which was the subject of the 100th episode, "Wormhole X-treme," and is a parody of SG-1 itself.

"The 200th, ... as we've all put our heads together on that one, is based on a great idea [executive producer] Robert [C. Cooper] had, and we've all written bits and put them all together, and Robert went through it, and then I went through it," Wright said in an interview on SG-1's Vancouver, Canada, set earlier this month.

This time around, the SG-1 team helps Lloyd turn Wormhole X-treme into a movie. "Even though the series was canceled after three episodes, it did well on DVD," Wright said. "It's a little nod to Serenity, I suppose." Serenity is based on the failed Fox TV series Firefly, which was canceled in the middle of its first season, but which went on to sell well on DVD, warranting a feature film.

As for Wormhole X-treme, Wright said: "The Air Force loves it, because they love the notion of a television series out there that is ostensibly [based on the] real events in SG-1, in Stargate Command. So plausible deniability. ... It's a series of, I guess you could call them vignettes or flashes, scenes, that are kind of unusual."

In the episode, which also marks the return of former SG-1 star Richard Dean Anderson, viewers can expect the kind of broad, insidery humor that characterized the 100th episode. "'Wormhole X-treme' was pushing it," Wright said. "This is pushing it twice as far. But, you know, it's the 200th episode."

[Mandi-chan]

This time around, the SG-1 team helps Lloyd turn Wormhole X-treme into a movie. "Even though the series was canceled after three episodes, it did well on DVD," Wright said. "It's a little nod to Serenity, I suppose." Serenity is based on the failed Fox TV series Firefly, which was canceled in the middle of its first season, but which went on to sell well on DVD, warranting a feature film.

It makes me very happy to see this show do a nice nod to Firefly/Serenity, it means a lot.

I can't wait to see what'll happen next year on SG1, I love the new big bad and Vala!