Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/
Amazon MGM Studios has backtracked on its plan to reopen the Stargate
with a new series from writer and executive producer Martin Gero,
Variety has reported and GateWorld has confirmed. The show was to
stream globally on Prime Video.
The show was announced in November in a video from the studio, with
Gero and fellow Stargate TV veterans Brad Wright and Joseph Mallozzi
taking the news straight to the fans.
Citing an anonymous source with knowledge of the situation, Variety
reports that executives at the studio were concerned that Gero?s take
on the series ?would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise?s
already dedicated fanbase"
Jun 2, 2026 at 5:50:08 PM PDT, shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series >>https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/
Amazon MGM Studios has backtracked on its plan to reopen the Stargate
with a new series from writer and executive producer Martin Gero,
Variety has reported and GateWorld has confirmed. The show was to
stream globally on Prime Video.
Crap. I was looking forward to this.
The show was announced in November in a video from the studio, with
Gero and fellow Stargate TV veterans Brad Wright and Joseph Mallozzi
taking the news straight to the fans.
Citing an anonymous source with knowledge of the situation, Variety
reports that executives at the studio were concerned that Gero?s take
on the series ?would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise?s
already dedicated fanbase"
This is Hollywood code for, he didn't want to populate the show with gays, >transformers, and race-swapped characters, and was interested in just making a >show that would please the fans rather than check DEI boxes.
Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/
Amazon MGM Studios has backtracked on its plan to reopen the Stargate
with a new series from writer and executive producer Martin Gero,
Variety has reported and GateWorld has confirmed. The show was to
stream globally on Prime Video.
The show was announced in November in a video from the studio, with
Gero and fellow Stargate TV veterans Brad Wright and Joseph Mallozzi
taking the news straight to the fans.
Citing an anonymous source with knowledge of the situation, Variety
reports that executives at the studio were concerned that Gero?s take
on the series ?would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise?s
already dedicated fanbase.? This is a key component in reviving a
legacy IP, as it can be difficult to justify a large price tag (such
as a big-budget streaming series) if a project only reaches existing
fans, and fails to grow the audience.
Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/
Amazon MGM Studios has backtracked on its plan to reopen the Stargate
with a new series from writer and executive producer Martin Gero,
Variety has reported and GateWorld has confirmed. The show was to
stream globally on Prime Video.
The show was announced in November in a video from the studio, with
Gero and fellow Stargate TV veterans Brad Wright and Joseph Mallozzi
taking the news straight to the fans.
Citing an anonymous source with knowledge of the situation, Variety
reports that executives at the studio were concerned that Gero?s take
on the series ?would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise?s
already dedicated fanbase.? This is a key component in reviving a
legacy IP, as it can be difficult to justify a large price tag (such
as a big-budget streaming series) if a project only reaches existing
fans, and fails to grow the audience.
shawn wrote:
Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/
Amazon MGM Studios has backtracked on its plan to reopen the Stargate
with a new series from writer and executive producer Martin Gero,
Variety has reported and GateWorld has confirmed. The show was to
stream globally on Prime Video.
The show was announced in November in a video from the studio, with
Gero and fellow Stargate TV veterans Brad Wright and Joseph Mallozzi
taking the news straight to the fans.
Citing an anonymous source with knowledge of the situation, Variety
reports that executives at the studio were concerned that Gero?s take
on the series ?would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise?s
already dedicated fanbase.? This is a key component in reviving a
legacy IP, as it can be difficult to justify a large price tag (such
as a big-budget streaming series) if a project only reaches existing
fans, and fails to grow the audience.
Joseph Mallozzi, who worked on the show, disagrees that it wouldn't
attack new viewers:
Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately crafting a show that offered a fresh jumping-on point for new viewers while deeply respecting existing canon. It was a series that
avoided the pitfalls of several modern remakes and reboots by fully embracing the core of its predecessors: action, adventure, exploration, wonder, heart, humor, and found family. And based on that creative
vision, the new Stargate series was greenlit in November of 2025.
As of today, officially, that original vision is no more. We'll never
get the opportunity to introduce you to that world and those characters
- or reintroduce you to, and check in with, some familiar faces from the past.
My heart breaks. For the incredibly talented writers who worked
tirelessly to bring this show to life. For Martin who maintained an unwavering positive outlook throughout despite the challenges, and who always strove to make a show that would honor the fans while welcoming a
new audiences. And for the long-suffering Stargate fandom who waited so
long and came so close to getting a show they truly would have loved.
Gero also disagreed in a response to the Variety article.
--Robin
On 6/3/26 11:17 AM, Robin Miller wrote:
shawn wrote:
Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/
Amazon MGM Studios has backtracked on its plan to reopen the Stargate
with a new series from writer and executive producer Martin Gero,
Variety has reported and GateWorld has confirmed. The show was to
stream globally on Prime Video.
The show was announced in November in a video from the studio, with
Gero and fellow Stargate TV veterans Brad Wright and Joseph Mallozzi
taking the news straight to the fans.
Citing an anonymous source with knowledge of the situation, Variety
reports that executives at the studio were concerned that Gero?s take
on the series ?would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise?s
already dedicated fanbase.? This is a key component in reviving a
legacy IP, as it can be difficult to justify a large price tag (such
as a big-budget streaming series) if a project only reaches existing
fans, and fails to grow the audience.
Joseph Mallozzi, who worked on the show, disagrees that it wouldn't
attack new viewers:
Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years,
ultimately crafting a show that offered a fresh jumping-on point for
new viewers while deeply respecting existing canon. It was a series
that avoided the pitfalls of several modern remakes and reboots by
fully embracing the core of its predecessors: action, adventure,
exploration, wonder, heart, humor, and found family. And based on that
creative vision, the new Stargate series was greenlit in November of
2025.
As of today, officially, that original vision is no more. We'll never
get the opportunity to introduce you to that world and those
characters - or reintroduce you to, and check in with, some familiar
faces from the past.
My heart breaks. For the incredibly talented writers who worked
tirelessly to bring this show to life. For Martin who maintained an
unwavering positive outlook throughout despite the challenges, and who
always strove to make a show that would honor the fans while welcoming
a new audiences. And for the long-suffering Stargate fandom who waited
so long and came so close to getting a show they truly would have loved.
Gero also disagreed in a response to the Variety article.
--Robin
I think the moral of this story, if it wasn't blatantly clear before, is that you now can't trust the streamers to do television, if indeed you
ever could.
But I am in the camp that says the streamers are quickly ruining series television. I seriously think series TV is going to be pretty much
entirely dead by about 2030, unless somehow the broadcast nets somehow manage to rebound.
I think us oldsters will be reduced to watching nothing but reruns at
that point.
On 2026-06-04 11:13 a.m., Ian J. Ball wrote:ries/
On 6/3/26 11:17 AM, Robin Miller wrote:
shawn wrote:
Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-se
s
Amazon MGM Studios has backtracked on its plan to
reopen the Stargate with a new series from writer and
executive producer Martin Gero, Variety has reported
and GateWorld has confirmed. The show was to stream
globally on Prime Video.
The show was announced in November in a video from the
studio, with Gero and fellow Stargate TV veterans Brad
Wright and Joseph Mallozzi taking the news straight to
the fans.
Citing an anonymous source with knowledge of the
situation, Variety reports that executives at the
studio were concerned that Gero?s take on the series
?would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise?
That's certainly been my experience with written Sciencealready dedicated fanbase.? This is a key component in
reviving a legacy IP, as it can be difficult to justify
a large price tag (such as a big-budget streaming
series) if a project only reaches existing fans, and
fails to grow the audience.
Joseph Mallozzi, who worked on the show, disagrees that
it wouldn't attack new viewers:
Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over
two years, ultimately crafting a show that offered a
fresh jumping-on point for new viewers while deeply
respecting existing canon. It was a series that avoided
the pitfalls of several modern remakes and reboots by
fully embracing the core of its predecessors: action,
adventure, exploration, wonder, heart, humor, and found
family. And based on that creative vision, the new
Stargate series was greenlit in November of 2025.
As of today, officially, that original vision is no
more. We'll never get the opportunity to introduce you
to that world and those characters - or reintroduce you
to, and check in with, some familiar faces from the
past.
My heart breaks. For the incredibly talented writers who
worked tirelessly to bring this show to life. For Martin
who maintained an unwavering positive outlook throughout
despite the challenges, and who always strove to make a
show that would honor the fans while welcoming a new
audiences. And for the long-suffering Stargate fandom
who waited so long and came so close to getting a show
they truly would have loved.
Gero also disagreed in a response to the Variety
article.
--Robin
I think the moral of this story, if it wasn't blatantly
clear before, is that you now can't trust the streamers
to do television, if indeed you ever could.
But I am in the camp that says the streamers are quickly
ruining series television. I seriously think series TV is
going to be pretty much entirely dead by about 2030,
unless somehow the broadcast nets somehow manage to
rebound.
I think us oldsters will be reduced to watching nothing
but reruns at that point.
Fiction and music. The only really good recent SF novel
I've read in *years* was The Martian, which is written in
a very old-school way in that it is NOT a dystopia. I was
an active member of an SF book club for years in the hopes
of discovering some new writers and books that really
excited me but I pretty much came up empty and have
settled for re-reading old favourites when I read SF at
all.
I haven't found a new band to care about since Tears for
Fears in the early 90s. Newer music is increasingly
dreadful with the exception of well-established bands that
are mostly living on their legacies, not producing new
music. I get more satisfaction listening to obscure bands
from the 60s and 70s than from anything being produced
today.
And I'm definitely watching much less TV than ever before.
Most of the newer shows are utter crap. (I make an
exception for Taylor Sheridan who still writes some good
shows, although the stuff built on his universes but not
written by him is not as good as what he actually writes
himself.) I still watch other stuff but not much of it is
really all that good. It won't be long before I'm watching
almost only older shows from my archive. I do sample
unfamiliar shows from time to time and occasionally find
something watchable but most are not of any real interest
to me.
I'm still curious about what AI is going to do to TV. For
instance, I wonder if we'll see a remake of the original
Star Trek with AI versions of Kirk, Spock and the rest of
the crew but with some rewriting to end all the deviations
from canon to keep everything as consistent as it can be?
Maybe they could produce some of the better scripts that
never got produced in the original run due to cost
considerations and not bother remaking some of the truly
stupid episodes, like Spock's Brain, or actually revise
those episodes so they're a lot better. And then go
further into some of those stories the way The Orville
did, with followup episodes to the best episodes so that
we could see what became of those characters and
situations. I think AI has some real potential there.
Nyssa, who knows that she's not missed by the contemporary TV content producers since she's far out of their desired demographic anyway
On 2026-06-04 16:36:14 +0000, Nyssa said:
<snip>
Nyssa, who knows that she's not missed by the contemporary TV content producers since she's far out of their desired demographic anyway
If you can watch or listen to adverts, then you're in the 'demographic'. ;-)
(Even if you were deaf and blind, they'd probably still find a way to
shovel adverts at you!)
Verily, in article <10vtqf5$ufh2$1@dont-email.me>, did
YourName@YourISP.com deliver unto us this message:
On 2026-06-04 16:36:14 +0000, Nyssa said:
<snip>
Nyssa, who knows that she's not missed by the contemporary TV content
producers since she's far out of their desired demographic anyway
If you can watch or listen to adverts, then you're in the 'demographic'. ;-)
(Even if you were deaf and blind, they'd probably still find a way to
shovel adverts at you!)
Most of the ads I see these days are targeted at old people. I suppose
it's a hazard of streaming. With broadcast, nobody could tell whether a
given person was watching.
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