Primeval returns to ITV after boost of UKTV money

chris

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.

Show boss Tim Haines, of Impossible Pictures, says: "We'll bring a whole host of new creatures roaring back into people's living rooms."

Dive behind the sofa (um, in a year or so, obviously).


Source:Mirror

PaulR

Well I know Channel Hopper will disagree but it's good news for me.

PaulR As I get older I find myself thinking about the hereafter - I go into a room and then wonder what I'm here after.

rolfw

Have begun to enjoy the series after the demise of a couple of the main characters, prefer the new ones and look forward to the new series.

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Channel Hopper

I trust they got torn apart and eaten.

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"