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BBC America Gets ‘Primeval’ With Thriller
Dinosaur Action Series Teed Up For Saturdays This Summer
By Kent Gibbons
BBC America’s latest foray into Saturday night adventure series (Robin
Hood, Torchwood) this summer is Primeval, a thriller that sees
dinosaurs travel in time to wreak present-day havoc.
BBCA bought rights to two seasons (13 one-hour episodes) of Primeval,
made by Impossible Pictures for U.K. broadcaster ITV and distributed
by BBC Worldwide.
Primeval’s second season is now airing in the United Kingdom and ITV
has commissioned a third, according to news re****ts.
It’s slated to join the schedule in August, possibly on Aug. 2, the
network said.
Impossible Pictures also created the Walking With... series that,
among other things, used computer animation and animatronics to
recreate dinosaurs in their prehistoric environment.
Primeval's premise: Evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter (Douglas
Henshall) discovers prehistoric creatures alive and well in the
present day. Unexplained anomalies are ripping holes in the fabric of
time, allowing creatures from the very earliest stages of Earth's
development to roam the modern world. Global disaster looms.
Cutter, meanwhile, is searching for his wife, missing and presumed
dead but has actually been traveling in the past. Now she’s back, with
possible answers to the riddle of the anomalies. But is it an answer
she’s willing to share?
BBC Worldwide America president Garth Ancier said in a release Friday:
“Primeval is a perfect addition to our successful Saturday night menu
of sci-fi and adventure. Torchwood and Robin Hood have done a
tremendous job at the core of our schedule, building ratings and
attracting younger viewers to BBC America. We think our audience will
be excited by the addition of this prehistoric thriller — one of the
latest big hits from the U.K.”
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