Syfy Channel in the United States has announced its broadcast schedule for April 2010, featuring the long-awaited return of Stargate Universe. The second half of Season One will begin Friday, April 2, and will run 10 episodes.
“Space” kicks things off on April 2, picking up where December’s “Justice” left off. Following that will be:
“Divided” – April 9
“Faith” – April 16
“Human” – April 23
“Lost” – April 30
UPDATE: Syfy originally listed “Sabotage” as airing on April 30. The studio tells GateWorld that “Lost” will indeed air first, as originally believed. Syfy has since updated its online schedule to reflect this correction. “Sabotage” will likely air sixteenth, on May 7.
In the U.K., Sky1 will also begin airing new episodes in April. The likely premiere date is April 6, airing each new episode the Tuesday following its Friday premiere in North America.
As the network did last fall, Syfy will reair the previous week’s episode Fridays at 8 p.m. (7 Central), before the premiere of that week’s newest.
If you’re looking to catch up on the SGU story so far, Syfy will air a marathon of all 10 episodes on April 2, from 11 a.m. right up to the 9 p.m. premiere of “Space.” Of course the first half of Season One is also available now on DVD and Blu-ray, and the five most recent can be watched for free at Hulu (U.S. only).
Syfy’s strategy of splitting the season into two halves, with a 4-month break in between, allows them to offer original programming all year long. It also means, however, that filming on Season Two will be well underway before fans get to see episode 11.
The second season is expected to premiere this fall.
Weekday repeats of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis will continue in the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. time slots (Eastern/Pacific) in April, with Season Eight of SG-1 and the end of Season Two and first half of Season Three for SGA.
Learn more about these and other upcoming episodes in GateWorld’s Season One episode guide!
(Thanks to Morjana for the tip!)
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four more weeks of waiting to go
Can’t wait!
And more airing news for everyone in Sweden:
“Stargate Universe has (finally) arrived at Pegasus galaxy”
People here really miss SGA and SG1. But you’ll feel better soon. SGU is arriving to TV6. On Friday March 5 at 9 pm – make a note in your calendar.
http://www.tv6.se/ – http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tv6.se%2F&sl=sv&tl=en
I’m watching the premier now as we speak
YES!
Damn. Still four weeks to go. Can’t wait for Space!
I’ve seen every episode of SG1/SGA/SGU at least twice. I hadn’t checked the site til now because SGU seemed fine. It pulled together in the last few episodes and got almost great. They stretched with SGU, and the first half was tough, but they found their way at the end. The structure is encouraging, but we’re not used to novelistic story telling, and we weren’t told to be patient. I place the blame in two places. First: francises are stepping stones. If SGA had ended stronger– no’Todd’ as comic relief, ‘natives’ wasted in stereotypes, predictable bureaucratic/military antagonists, stunt casting shortcuts… Read more »
Surely splitting it up means NOT having programming…
@GateHunter
I agree… How is waiting for four months having yearlong programming. You’re waiting the same amount of time but forgetting everything in the middle when they take months off. Makes more sense to just air all 20 every week and then airing the next season in the fall. It seems to me that ratings about be more consistent doing it this way as well, but then again I don’t run a network.
As the old saying goes “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”. Both SG-1 and Atlantis really didn’t need any fixing. SGU would’ve been great if they would’ve kept with what wasn’t broken just expanded the location like they did. As for splitting it up, that just seems to be an extension of when they started showing new series in the middle of summer to beat the competition’s Fall launch. Maybe they think it’s “on the edge TV”, who knows? I would rather it still be the old way of programs starting in September and ending in May with a… Read more »
if they put on 5 new episodes of sg1 or sga i would watch and then wait till the next 5. but i wont watch this waste of sci fi show sgu.
If you don´t watch it,don´t speak about it
If you don’t bring the marshmallows, we can’t have any smores.
You know I would rather watch 5 more seasons of SGA than watch a single more episode of SGU. It is that bad and anyone who thinks differently then I would question your intelligent.
@lordball The way in which you worded your comment it more or less says that Atlantis was bad and you would rather suffer 5 more seasons of it than watch another episode of SGU.