There’s a brand new way to watch Stargate starting on Friday, April 1, 2022.
Pluto TV is giving Stargate its own 24/7 dedicated channel.
The Stargate Channel will stream the original “Stargate” feature film, the two SG-1
movies, plus selected seasons from the three live-action television shows.
Starting in April the Stargate Channel will be continuously streaming the 1994 Stargate
feature film; SG-1 Seasons 1 through 5 (which ran on Showtime
in the United States from 1997 to 2002, before the show jumped over to The SCI FI Channel);
also Atlantis Seasons 1 and 2 (which aired on SCI FI from 2004 to 2006);
and both seasons of Stargate Universe (which aired on Syfy from 2009 to 2011).
Pluto will also be streaming the two SG-1 movies, The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.
Those came out on DVD in 2008.
So by our count that’s 196 hours of Stargate at launch, covering more than half of the
374-hour franchise.
To watch it all you’ll need to load up on caffeine and snacks and binge for a little
over 8 days straight.
Pluto TV is an Internet television service available in 25 countries, including the U.S.,
Canada, the U.K., and throughout Europe and Latin America.
If you want to find out if Pluto is available in your country, just enter "pluto.tv" into
your browser and see if the interface loads up and starts playing a show.
Here in the "Live TV" section shows run continuously on the hour (rather than on demand).
So this part of the service hearkens back to the old channel-surfing days.
You can flip around and see what else is on.
The service is entirely ad-supported, so expect commercials — meaning that Pluto is available
for free in those select countries, and without the need to create and manage an account before
accessing the full array of classic shows and movies.
Now, for the new Stargate Channel Pluto hasn’t said what order they’ll be running things
in.
But most shows and movies also look to be available in the "On Demand" section if you
are in the mood for something specific.
You can call up one of the Stargate movies, or an episode from the first five seasons
of SG-1, the first two seasons of Atlantis, or the two seasons of SGU.
And if you're not in the mood for 24/7 Stargate, you're bound to find something else on here
that you're interested in.
Along with channels dedicated to a genre (like science fiction) or an era (like “80s Rewind”),
the Stargate Channel will appear alongside other franchise-specific channels that run
24 hours a day, 7 days a weeek — including Star Trek, classic Doctor Who, CSI, Beverly
Hills: 90210 if that's your jam (no judgment!), and lots more.
Pluto TV launched in 2013 and was acquired by Viacom in 2019.
The service boasts 50 million global viewers and more than 150,000 hours of content.
These ad-supported episodes stream continuously throughout the day, so if you're in the mood
for Stargate you can just pop in and see what happens to be on.
Check Pluto's live TV guide to see when a particular episode will be coming up next
— or just call it up on demand.
And if you're not keen to watch TV in your Web browser, look for the Pluto TV app, which
is available for most smart televisions, mobile devices, it's available via Verizon FiOS,
Cox Cable, on Xbox and Playstation consoles, or you can find the service online for free
at Pluto.TV.
Stargate's appearance on Pluto TV should be something that is separate from its on-demand
streaming on a platform like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.
Now that Amazon owns MGM, we fully expect that all three shows in their entirety will
eventually make their way to Prime Video.
In that case you'll get every episode from every season.
And we expect that'll be available everywhere where Prime Video is available.
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