Written By: Ken HulseySources: Dark Horizons / Avery Guerra
This past June, ITV announced that it was scaling back many of it's productions to cut costs during the bad world-wide economic crisis. One of the victims of the ax was the very popular sci fi series, "Primeval", which features a great deal of high end, and expensive, computer generated effects. Though the series had gained a following both in the UK and here in the United States, the network felt that the series costs out-weighed it's profits.
Immediately after the shows cancellation the makers of the series vowed to keep it alive, and irate fans went to the Internet to make their voices heard through message board posts and various websites.
Apparently ITV, took notice, because the series has been brought back from the dead.
A new deal has been forged between ITV, BBC Worldwide, BBC America and Germany's Pro7 to produce thirteen new episodes for 2010 and 2011. Actually to be more accurate, thirteen episodes will be produced and half will air in 2010 and half in 2011, an interesting change of pace, and an obvious cost cutting move. Maybe the episodes will air as a week long special mini-series like "Torchwood: Children of Earth"? Who knows?
All the involved entities will shoulder the financial 'burden' for "Primeval", with ITV and UKTV channel Watch, both sharing, and swapping the rights to air the new episodes.
"Primeval" follows the adventures of an unlikely group of zoologists as they try to stop prehistoric creatures from invading the modern day through an anomaly in time, a strange, unexplained natural phenomena that no one seems to know anything about.
See, sometimes if you bitch loud enough, good things can come of it!
See Also: High Costs Drive Primeval To Extinction
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