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PRIMEVAL 2003 TV (MINI) SERIES

Ratting: 8/10
E        (for everyone)

                Primeval is a British science fiction television programme produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures. Created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines, who previously created the Walking with... documentary series, Primeval follows a team of five scientists tasked with investigating the appearance of temporal anomalies across Great Britain through which prehistoric and futuristic creatures enter the present.

First broadcast in the UK on 10 February 2007, it has since expanded to an international audience. Overall reception of the programme was positive during the first and second series, maintaining a 25 percent audience share in the United Kingdom during both series to date. Prior to its 9 August 2008 broadcast on BBC America, the programme received generally positive reaction from American critics as well. The third series, which ITV announced on 30 January 2008, began on 28 March 2009 and has now finished. In the US, series 3 premiered on 16 May 2009 on BBC America and has finished airing.

On 29 September 2009, it was announced that a deal had been struck between ITV, Watch, Impossible Pictures, German broadcaster Pro7 and BBC Worldwide to produce two new series of the show for transmission in 2011.

The first of the two new series started airing on New Year's Day on ITV(ITV1/STV/UTV) in the UK and on BBC America in the US.

        Synopsis

The first series followed the efforts of Professor Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) and his associates; a friend and colleague Stephen Hart (James Murray), a student Connor Temple (Andrew-Lee Potts), a zoo-keeper Abby Maitland (Hannah Spearritt) as they investigate the appearance of "anomalies" that allow the passage to other times and places, allowing often-dangerous creatures from the distant past or future to threaten the lives of citizens. The British government, in the form of the Home Office (under the supervision of James Lester (Ben Miller) and Claudia Brown (Lucy Brown) becomes involved after a Gorgonopsid travels through one such anomaly and wreaks havoc in the environs of the Forest of Dean. Professor Cutter's wife, presumed missing in the first episodes, is revealed to have been travelling in time for years and is now using the anomalies to try to access the future. The final episode of the first series involves the first appearance of an anomaly allowing predators from the future access to the present, and ultimately, the past. This further complicates things as Cutter, who transferred through an anomaly after Helen came back to discover that Claudia Brown never existed, and in her place an assertive and quite different PR agent named Jenny Lewis joined the team. Taking Claudia's previous position was a man named Leek, who worked with Helen to use the anomalies to gain political power. The final conflict of the first two seasons resulted in the death of Stephen Hart.

The second series establishes that the destroyed camp of time travellers discovered in the first episode was actually that of the team and that they had created their own past. Due to Professor Cutter and his estranged wife's visit to the camp, Professor Cutter believes they affected the timeline, although this was the second time at the camp (the first was finding the camp, the second time years or months earlier setting up the camp so it can be found by them later), which had resulted in the change of Claudia Brown. Cutter continued to investigate anomalies and attempted to find ways of predicting them, meanwhile Lester had to deal with an old rival Christine, an unscrupulous government official who hoped to obtain the power of the anomalies and the future predators for military uses. With the assistance of Sarah Page, a professor who is employed at the British Museum, they begin to contemplate the origins of the anomalies having been based in folklore. Cutter takes an artifact from Helen, and is killed by her in the process. Connor obtains the artifact and discovers that it was in fact a map to predict anomalies, however, they are not able to get it to work. Danny Quinn, a former police detective who became involved with the team becomes team leader and Jenny departs after having nearly died. Connor and Abby's love interest grows, despite the fact that her brother Jack takes an anomaly to the future and is nearly killed. Helen returns near the season's end, utilizing the power of a device to open anomalies at will, she reveals that she will go back to eradicate the human race. She kills Christine and travels back to the future. Quinn, Connor and Abby follow and Quinn catches up with Helen in the prehistoric past. Helen is killed by a raptor who had hitchhiked with Quinn, and the anomaly closes, leaving him trapped in the Pliocene while Abby and an injured Connor remain in the late Cretaceous.

        Cast

Listed alphabetically:

• Juliet Aubrey as Helen Cutter (Episodes 1.1-3.10)
• Lucy Brown as Claudia Brown (Episodes 1.1-1.6) and Jenny Lewis (Episodes 2.1-3.5)
• Jason Flemyng as Danny Quinn (Episodes 3.2-3.10)
• Douglas Henshall as Professor Nick Cutter (Episodes 1.1-3.3)
• Ruth Kearney as Jess Parker (Episodes 4.1-current)
• Anton Lesser as Gideon (Episodes 4.1-current)
• Ben Mansfield as Captain Becker (Episodes 3.1-current)
• Ciarán McMenamin as Matt Anderson (Episodes 4.1-current)
• Ben Miller as James Lester (Episodes 1.1-current)
• James Murray as Stephen Hart (Episodes 1.1-2.7)
• Andrew-Lee Potts as Connor Temple (Episodes 1.1-current)
• Laila Rouass as Sarah Page (Episodes 3.1-3.10)
• Alexander Siddig as Philip Burton (Episodes 4.1-current)
• Hannah Spearritt as Abby Maitland (Episodes 1.1-current)
• Belinda Stewart-Wilson as Christine Johnson (Episodes 3.1 - 3.9)
• Karl Theobald as Oliver Leek (Episodes 2.1-2.7)
• Mark Wakeling as Captain Tom Ryan (Episodes 1.1-1.6)

        Setting

The series takes place first in Primeverse and then due to the time alteration in the final episode in the first year (of the series) the second year is in a alternate universe that shares some features of the times covered in other Impossible Pictures shows such as Prehistoric Park and the Walking with... series. Tim Haines and Adrian Hodges have added places and characters not covered there.

There is also the possibility that the Primeverse will be featured in future Impossible Pictures productions as writer Adrian Hodges has stated that he'd like to take the Primeverse "in another direction one day".

The series includes various imaginary species which are not native to the series setting, with some being prehistoric and others being futuristic. For the first series, various creatures were designed with some artistic license, for dramatic effect.

        Filming

The series has being filmed at Pinewood Studios, Black Park, Buckinghamshire, London Underground, New Den Stadium (home of Millwall FC, although apparently the Matchroom Stadium, home of Leyton Orient F.C. according to the official website) and CEME (the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence near Ford's Dagenham) Whipsnade Zoo, London Zoo, the Canary Islands, Bentalls Shopping Centre, Thorpe Park, Bournemouth beach and the British Museum.

The Duke of Kent building at the University of Surrey, Guildford is used as the back-drop for the team's HQ, the ARC (Anomaly Research Centre).

Filming of the second series completed on 1 October 2007, and was broadcast in early 2008. Caroline Steel and Oliver Leek, portrayed by Naomi Bentley and Karl Theobald respectively, were two new characters for the second series, both of whom conspired with Helen Cutter.

Filming for the two new series started on 22 March 2010 in Ireland on locations around Dublin and Wicklow. Locations Manager Dermot Cleary confirms the first block will see filming in Powerscourt Estate, The O2, Dublin port, Grand Canal Dock and Park West Business Park and is due to finish in November 2010.^[11] The filming for series 4 is now complete, and is set to air in January 2011.

        Advertising

Primeval billboards and banners are often erected around London shortly before the airdate. Series 1 has several posters, most of which had exaggerated creatures from the show (the Arthropleura was depicted as being roughly human-sized in the show but was shown as being as large as a house in the billboards). Series 2 and 3 have also had prominent advertising campaigns.

         Cancellation and revival

In May 2009, The Sun had reported that Primeval was to be axed owing to ITV's recent admission of a £2.7 billion loss (though not solely as a result of Primeval's budget). ITV strongly denied this claim, with a spokesperson stating "It's not true, it's not going to be axed, it just hasn't been recommissioned and it is not unusual to wait for a series to run before considering recommission".However, by June 2009, ITV confirmed the show was axed. On 15 June 2009, ITV announced that they had cancelled the show and that there would not be a fourth series. At the same time, it was suggested that the production team would attempt to keep "Primeval alive in other ways". An ITV spokesman is quoted as saying:

"After three very successful series of Primeval there are no plans at the present time for it to return to ITV. High-quality drama remains a key part of the ITV schedule although our current focus is on post-watershed productions."

A likely contributing factor to the show's cancellation was ITV 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. On 29 September 2009, it was announced that two new series of the show will be produced for transmission in 2011, retaining most of the Series 3 cast; Laila Rouass has stated that she will not be returning. The new deal means a seven-part series four will air on ITV1 before being repeated on UKTV’s Watch channel, while the six-part series five gets its debut on Watch before showing on ITV1.Filming for series 4 and 5 of Primeval started on 22 March 2010 and finished in November 2010,  with January 2011 set as the new series 4 airdate. Filming for series 4 was confirmed to have finished on 25 June, with filming for series 5 starting immediately.

On 7 April 2010, three new regular characters were announced for series four and five. These were scientist Philip Burton, to be played by Alexander Siddig, Matt, the new field leader, to be played by Ciarán McMenamin and Jess, played by Ruth Kearney, who will run operations from the ARC Control Centre.

On 8 June 2010, in an interview with Robert Quinn, the only Irish director involved with the fourth series, stated that in episode 5 and 6 of series 4, one would feature creatures that would terrorise a seaside village (filmed in Wicklow) and in the other, creatures would attack a castle (filmed in Luttrelstown castle).

         Spin-offs

Plans for a feature film version of Primeval have been revealed by ITV with Warner Bros. reportedly having acquired the screen rights with Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster named as the producers. In August 2010, Jonathan Drake, Managing Director of Impossible Films, confirmed rumours of a spin-off series. According to Drake, Impossible has entered a franchising deal with Canadian independent company, Omni Film Productions, to produce a Canadian version of the series. Drake said, "We won't be replacing the UK show in the international market but complementing it. It will provide a positive glow for our catalogue of existing Primeval shows. And if something were to happen to the UK version, the brand still survives." Star Trek: Enterprise writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens are expected to deliver scripts for the new series.

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         Series 2

         Series 3

        Series 4