StephenHunterUK t1_jcqxvff wrote on March 18, 2023 at 9:44 PM

To a certain extent, they do. If they feel that it's time for the show to go out on a high, the network often doesn't try to force them to continue. In the case of Stargate SG-1, that was a decision to call it a day and because Amanda Tapping still had a year on her contract, she was moved over to Atlantis.

FoxInDaBox t1_jcsdye2 wrote on March 19, 2023 at 4:49 AM

The producers and cast most definitely wanted to continue. There was a huge backlash at the cancellation, and SyFy actually decided to reverse their decision. But at that point the crew/production side had already moved on to other work, so it wasn’t feasible to continue.