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from Scifi Wire

Stars Join SG-1

SCI FI Channel announced that Beau Bridges and Lou Gossett Jr. will join the casts of Stargate SG-1 as the two show gears up production for the new season.

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.

Production on Stargate SG-1 is set to begin in March for a summer premiere on SCI FI.