Filming Primeval

Thanks to a comment by Tamie; Primeval will be starting filming for series 4 from March and the episodes will air next year.

Andrew Warns Of ‘Shocking’ Storylines For Primeval

Primeval actor Andrew-Lee Potts has claimed that producers have “shocking” storylines ready for the new series. The 30-year-old will return to his role as Connor Temple on the sci-fi show.

The programme was recently recommissioned for 13 more new episodes after concerns that it would be axed as a result of budget cutbacks at ITV.

In an interview with IESB, Potts said: “It’s great coming back to play him. And then, also, I get to work with my fiancée Hannah Spearritt.

“When it was cancelled, it was such a shame because we enjoyed working with each other so much and we thought, ‘We might never do that again’.

That made us sad. But, we’re going to be able to do that again.”

READ MORE

Douglas Henshall Praises ‘Primeval’

Douglas Henshall has predicted that Primeval will have a bright future following its recent revival.

The 43-year-old actor, who left his role as palaeontology expert Nick Cutter in the last series, told the Chester Chronicle that he can understand why the dinosaur drama has proved so popular with fans.

“I thought that the writing was good enough and the premise was good enough, [and] if people liked it, it could go pretty much as long as it liked,” Henshall explained.

“As long as people had faith in it who were making it, then I thought it would be fine. It taps into an eternal thing in young people, dinosaurs, monsters and myths and legends.”

READ MORE

Primeval Returns To ITV After Boost Of UKTV Money

It was declared extinct – but Primeval lives to fight another day!

Cash-strapped ITV1 bosses decided the dinosaur show was as dead as a dodo earlier this year because it was too pricey to keep making.

But new life has been breathed into the sci-fi drama, thanks to a deal with UKTV to share it.

Now series four will premiere on ITV1 in 2011 while series five will be shown first on pay-TV channel Watch (but swiftly repeated on ITV1).

The CGI show – featuring lots of monsters and people caught in time-slips – will again star real-life lovebirds Hannah Spearritt and Andrew Lee Potts, with help from Jason Flemyng.

READ MORE

Updates

Sorry for no updates I was moving house.

I have added all of the Primeval caps in HQ and an extra from the DVD plus a new Alice still, I’d love it in HQ!

I’ve been hearing rumours of Primeval series 4 & 5 but I don’t believe it.

Primeval 3.4 HQ Screencaps

Edgy New Restart In USA Is Planned For Primeval

WITH the third and final season of Primeval out on DVD, fans are waiting for news on plans to stop the show becoming totally extinct.

Impossible Pictures, which makes the dino-drama, had sold the movie rights to Warner Bros and has also been in talks for a US version of the series.

The show was screened in the UK on ITV1 until it was axed last month.

Impossible founder Tim Haines has clarified the reasons for its cancellation and has also explained what they have in mind for the American version.

Haines was speaking in a recent article in Broadcast Now, which has just been drawn to my attention.

He said: “There was a lot of talk when Primeval was cancelled that it must have been because it is a big show, with lots of CGI and special effects.

“That’s not the case. ITV wasn’t paying the whole costs anyway but we offered to lower the price further and bring in 50 per cent of the funding with co-production deals. It would still have been been getting a show worth more than £1million for less than £600,000.”

READ MORE

More Primeval HQ’s

I have added some more HQ’s from Primeval.

Primeval 3.3 HQ Screencaps

Primeval 3.2 HQ Screencaps