Stargate casts sign on for new season

The full principal casts of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis have officially signed on for another year of adventures, The SCI FI Channel announced today.

Ben Browder (“Cameron Mitchell”), Amanda Tapping (“Samantha Carter”), Christopher Judge (“Teal’c”), Michael Shanks (“Daniel Jackson”), and Beau Bridges (“Hank Landry”) will return for the record-breaking tenth season of SG-1. The team will be joined by newcomer Claudia Black (“Vala Mal Doran”), SG-1‘s newest full-time cast member.

Atlantis‘s Joe Flanigan (“John Sheppard”), Torri Higginson (“Elizabeth Weir”), David Hewlett (“Rodney McKay”), Rachel Luttrell (“Teyla Emmagan”), Paul McGillion (“Carson Beckett”), and Jason Momoa (“Ronon Dex”) will return for Season Three of the hit spin-off series.

Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper will return as executive producers on both series.

Both shows enter production in early 2006 for a summer premiere on SCI FI. The current season returns with all-new episodes January 6.