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Sci Fi Wire has some interesting news on casting in the two SG series:

Bridges will join SG-1 as Gen. Hank Landry, the new head of Stargate Command, when Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) is promoted to oversee Homeworld Security. Bridges will have a regular role on SG-1 and will also appear in a few episodes of Atlantis.

Oscar winner Gossett joins the cast of SG-1 in a recurring role as a Jaffa leader who vies with Teal'c (Christopher Judge) for political control of the new Jaffa nation.

Pileggi, best known to SF fans for his recurring X-Files role as assistant FBI director Walter Skinner, takes on a recurring role in Atlantis as a hard-nosed colonel who butts heads with Dr. Weir (Torri Higginson) and Maj. Sheppard (Joe Flanigan).

Production on both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis is set to begin in March for summer premieres on SCI FI.

It will be interesting to see how well SG-1 does with the effective loss of two main characters - O'Neill and Hammond. I'll have to see how well Beau Bridges fills that gap; I have qualms. As to Atlantic - I'm curious as to how we get a colonel in the cast - I thought that Major Sheppard was the ranking military guy - either the story is wrong on the wire, or they are about to do something wonky...