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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 and containing prehistoric and futuristic creatures which 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.[1] Prior to its 9 August 2008 broadcast on BBC America, the programme received generally positive reaction from American critics as well.[2] The third series, which ITV announced on 30 January 2008,[3] began on 28 March 2009 and has now finished. In the US, series 3 premièred on 16 May 2009 on BBC America.
On 15 June 2009, ITV announced that they had cancelled the show and that there would not be a fourth series.[4] At the same time, it was suggested that the production team would attempt to keep "Primeval alive in other ways."[5]
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 and containing prehistoric and futuristic creatures which 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.[1] Prior to its 9 August 2008 broadcast on BBC America, the programme received generally positive reaction from American critics as well.[2] The third series, which ITV announced on 30 January 2008,[3] began on 28 March 2009 and has now finished. In the US, series 3 premièred on 16 May 2009 on BBC America.
On 15 June 2009, ITV announced that they had cancelled the show and that there would not be a fourth series.[4] At the same time, it was suggested that the production team would attempt to keep "Primeval alive in other ways."[5]