Stargate Atlantis Cancelled (by Sci Fi) after Season 5

It looks like Stargate Atlantis has been cancelled by Sci Fi and will go the way of SG1 with 2 hour movies after the end of Season 5. Thats typical of Sci Fi cancel all of the good shows and then keep the bad ones. Although there is another advantage in that Stargate Universe may come a lot sooner that first thought, and there will still be Atlantis, although only in movie forms like the recently released Stargate SG 1 films. [quote]UPDATE: MGM has advised us that an official press release will be issued Thursday, which will hopefully answer many questions. Stay tuned to GateWorld. The SCI FI Channel is ending Stargate Atlantis after five seasons, Multichannel News reports. The show will go on, though, with a 2-hour movie that will air on SCI FI in 2009, and be released on DVD by MGM. The film will be written by executive producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.[/quote] Source [url=http://gateworld.net/news/2008/08/istargate_atlantisi_will_end_thi.shtml]Gateworld[/url]