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- 1. 1.1 Feb 10, 2007
- An anomaly to the Permian period opens in the Forest of Dean and a Gorgonospid comes through.
- 2. 1.2 Feb 17, 2007
- The team battles a deadly giant centipede from the Late Carboniferous period.
- 3. 1.3 Feb 24, 2007
- Professor Cutter searches for an anomaly in icy waters but it may lead him to his wife.
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is a British science fiction drama television show produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was created by Tim Haines and Adrian Hodges. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 10th February, 2007, running for five series finishing, on 28th June, 2011.
follows a secret government research team, which is tasked with investigating doorways through time and space called Anomalies which are opening and allowing deadly creatures from across Earth's distant past and future to cross into and run rampant in the present. While predicting and discovering more about the Anomalies, the team must also contain...
Series 1
The first series of Primeval focuses on the newly-founded research team's attempts to combat the Anomalies and learn about and predict them. It also initially focuses on team leader Nick Cutter's search for answers on how the Anomalies are linked to the disappearance of his wife Helen eight years ago, and then later on what Helen's agenda is and who's side she's on. It is ultimately discovered that Helen merely wants to know more about the Anomalies for herself and does not care about the damage they are causing. At the end of the series, after returning from a mission into the past, Cutter discovers that team government official Claudia Brown has been erased from the timeline while he was in the past. This series aired in 2007 and ran for 6 episodes.
Series 2
In the second series of the show, as the team are now part of the Anomaly Research Centre, it focuses on Cutter's struggle to cope with losing Claudia Brown and with the arrival of the team's new PR guru Jenny Lewis, who seems to be Claudia's doppelganger in the new timeline. It also focuses on Helen Cutter's and Oliver Leek's mysterious plans for the Anomalies and the creatures, and on Stephen's relationship with Helen and Connor's with Caroline Steel; and how this affects Connor and Stephen's other relationships with their friends. Leek's and Helen's plans are ultimately stopped and Leek killed, but Stephen is killed in the process. This series aired in 2008 and ran for 7 episodes.
Series 3
In the aftermath of Stephen Hart's death, the ARC team go through several challenges and up against enemies; including Christine Johnson's plans for the Anomalies and attempts to take over the ARC, and Helen's deadly mission to save the future by attempting to destroy the ARC, killing her husband and later, trying to stop humanity from evolving. Johnson and Helen are both ultimately killed, but Connor, Abby and new team leader Danny Quinn are left marooned in the past. This series aired in 2009 and ran for 10 episodes.
Background
•Producer Tim Haines had the idea for Primeval around the same time he was making the award-winning Walking with Dinosaurs (1999). •Primeval was initially called "Cutter's Beastiary" and was a BBC project, however they weren't interested in the idea, they were at the time, in the process of bringing Doctor Who back and weren't interested in doing two sci fi shows. Tim was introduced to writer Adrian Hodges and together they wrote the initial three script and Tim's company Impossible Pictures took it to ITV who accepted it. Framestore was to provide the visual effects for the creatures as they had worked with Impossible Pictures on the Walking with... series, Chased by Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters and Prehistoric Park. •Co-creator: Tim Haines said: "Having introduced the animals to television and documentaries, I always thought, well, if you could bring [the creatures] into drama, make these a part of the story, make them perform a role, then there would be lots of potential for them. So I was very excited about the idea of trying to move this wonderful technology, this dramatic tool, into ordinary tv drama." "Its hard work. Ninety percent of the drama, despite having all these creatures in it, is about the convincing performance of the actors, the emotions that come across, the telling of the story. All these things have to happen on location" •Co-creator: Adrian Hodges said: "I knew if I could come up with a story that would match those special effects; we'd have something really unique. We didn't want spooky old churches or ghostly houses and things, we wanted something that felt really really modern. The idea we've had from the begining was that we wanted people to feel, having watched this programme, they could go into their kitchen and find a dinosaur in the kitchen. You know, they'd actually feel that close." •Haines was keen to take a different approach to the Walking with... creatures, which were as scientifically accurate as possible. Primeval's creatures were, whist mostly based on real animals, aimed at being more character based. They needed something more cinematic. Extra spikes, brow ridges and horns were added of structures changed to make the creatures more scary. •The first three episodes of Primeval were written by Hodges before any casting had been done. The conclusion to Series 1 was also planned before casting.
Original run
•Primeval initially ran for three series, with four episode novelisation books, four new story books, activity books, an interactive game, a line of 5.5" action figures and other toys being made.
Cancellation
•Despite rumours near the end of Series 3, ITV denied that they would cancelled Primeval but were waiting for the show to finish airing before recommissioning another series. •On 15 June, 2009, after the broadcast of Series 3, ITV announced that they had cancelled Primeval and would not be making a forth series. A likely contributing factor to the cancellation was ITV's suffering severe financial troubles during 2009, reporting a £105 million half-year loss. As a result, some of its other popular shows including Heartbeat were axed.
Latest cast
•Ciarán McMenamin as Matt Anderson (13 episodes) •Andrew-Lee Potts as Connor Temple (36 episodes) •Hannah Spearritt as Abby Maitland (36 episodes) •Ben Mansfield as Captain Hilary Becker (21 episodes) •Ruth Kearney as Jess Parker (13 episodes) •Ben Miller as James Lester (30 episodes) •Ruth Bradley as Emily Merchant (9 episodes)
Former cast
•Douglas Henshall as Professor Nick Cutter (16 episodes) •James Murray as Stephen Hart (13 episodes) •Lucy Brown as Claudia Brown (6 episodes) and Jenny Lewis (13 episodes) •Juliet Aubrey as Helen Cutter (16 episodes, 1 episode voice only) •Mark Wakeling as Captain Tom Ryan (6 episodes) •James Bradshaw as Duncan (4 episodes) •Jake Curran as Tom (3 episodes) •Karl Theobald as Oliver Leek (7 episodes) •Tim Faraday as the Cleaner (4 episodes) and the Cleaner Clones (4 episodes) •Naomi Bentley as Caroline Steel (6 episodes) •Jason Flemyng as Danny Quinn (9 episodes) •Laila Rouass as Dr. Sarah Page (10 episodes) •Belinda Stewart-Wilson as Christine Johnson (6 episodes) •Robert Lowe as Jack Maitland (4 episodes) •Alex McSweeney as Captain Joseph Wilder (4 episodes) •Alexander Siddig as Philip Burton (10 episodes) •Jonathan Byrne as Patrick Quinn (5 episodes) •Anton Lesser as Gideon (5 episodes) •Janice Byrne as April Leonard (4 episodes)
•Series 1
•The Making of Primeval
•Series 2
•Through the Anomaly
•Audio commentaries (Episode 2.1, 2.4)
•Series 3
•When broadcast/sold overseas, Primeval was renamed:
•Primeval - Rückkehr der Urzeitmonster (Return of the prehistoric monsters) in Germany.
•Nick Cutter et les Portes du Temps (Nick Cutter and the Doors of Time) for Series 1-3 and Les Portes du Temps (The Doors of Time) for Series 4-5 in France.
•Invasión jurásica (Jurassic Invasion) in Spain.
•Pravēk Útočí (possibly meaning Prehistory Attack) in the Czech Republic.
•The number of episodes in each of the five series of Primeval goes 6, 7, 10, 7 and 6 respectivaly.
1.The Making of 2.Exclusive Tim Haines Interview, Exclusive Daren Horley Interview
3.Exclusive Daren Horley Interview
4.Anomaly_Research_Centre:Exclusives/Tim_Haines_Interview
Primeval
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Series 1 • Series 2 • Novels • Series 3 • Primeval Evolved • Series 4 Prequel Webisodes • Series 4 • Totally Primeval comic strips • Series 5 • Primeval: New World •
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Production. Main cast and characters. Episodes. Reception and legacy. Other media. Notes. References. External links. Primeval (TV series) Primeval is a British science-fiction television series produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures.
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Tropes used in Primeval include: Action Girl - Abby becomes one, YMMV on when. Emily from the Victorean era is also a notable example, when she returns to her era she becomes Spring Heel Jack to hunt down a Raptor, getting the blame for its wrong doings, but is still capable at killing it.
Primeval. Characters. A professor of archaeology, and the leader of the team for the first two seasons. A little crazy, not to mention a host of issues relating to his wife, Helen. Played by Douglas Henshall.
