Several weeks ago, we brought you news that Britain’s ITV was searching for a co-producer for a potential fourth season of “Primeval.”
It appears they didn’t find one.
Total SciFi TV reports that ITV has cancelled the series after three seasons.
“Basically ITV have changed their policy about drama before 9pm in that they’ve decided they really don’t want any, at least not of the quality and cost of Primeval,” one of the show’s producers told Total SciFi TV “The show remained as popular this run (in terms of audience share) as ever before but the fact is that everyone knows ITV have money problems and they’ve decided that whatever drama budget they’ve got left is better spent after 9pm. It’s a great shame as Primeval was bringing new viewers to ITV who will now only be served by the BBC, but there’s nothing we can do about that.”
Warning: From this point forward, there are SPOILERS for the rest of season three…American fans watching on BBC America are warned.
At the point where we finished the third series, we had every reason to believe we would be doing a fourth. Had we known there was any likelihood of cancellation, clearly we wouldn’t have left half the cast marooned up a tree in the distant past. We can understand that some fans might be frustrated by this ending and we’re sorry for that. It certainly wasn’t our plan to leave things so uncertain. That said, some fans may know that there are ongoing talks for both a film and a North American series version of Primeval and if and when those projects come to fruition we will make every effort to carry on the story in a suitable way.”
Fans shouldn’t lose hope, however. The same source says the production team is pursuing other avenues to get a fourth season of the show on the air.
would have thought the BBC would have picked it up to run in the same time slot when Doctor Who, Robin Hood and Merlin were on on and just to piss ITV off!!!
Shame because this season was good. Bummer:(
#bringbackprimeval Twitter post of mine. The links are petitions to sign. Personally I blame Michael Grade. RT- #bringprimevalback plz RT and sign these if Primeval S4 is something you EVER want to see. http://snurl.com/k5vuj http://snurl.com/k5vts
No! How could they?!?
Just when it was finally getting good, too. I liked the new lead actor.:(
A North American version? There have been only two successful NA adaptations of UK series… Sanford and Son and The Office. I have no confidence in that idea. However, I wouldn’t mind seeing a feature film.
Awww….damn! While I wasn’t a fan of the Sreies Three cast changes…it was still a fun watch, much better than a lot of crap out there.
I’m baffled that it lasted three seasons, quite frankly. I guess they had to do something with the folks who worked on their kids tv shows that died off in the mid 00s.
Good riddance to bad sci-fi!
best thing worth watching on itv dont send it to the nether regions never to be seen again boo hiss
Well if I said it’s good, than I guess I’m gonna have to take my word on it and watch a few episodes! lol