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Primeval Season 3 General Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

primeval is cancelled

guys, it looks like primeval is not coming back for a 4th season in foreseeable future anyway.
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ITV cancel Primeval



Primeval will not be returning for a fourth year, after budget cuts at ITV has meant the channel will not be producing drama for broadcast before the watershed.

A source close to the Primeval production team told Total Sci-Fi that "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. 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.

"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.

"Obviously we're devastated that things should end this way with ITV. But we're absolutely certain that although this stage of its evolution seems to be over, Primeval isn't dead. We're very proud of what we've achieved over the past three years and we have every intention of keeping Primeval alive in other ways."
source:  digital spy

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Reply 53#53 bala's post

yeah your right of course, but it will be a great shame ,i loved the show

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hiya, to be honest, i didn't think it would last 3 seasons either, its good, but i never really connected to any one character. So fingers crossed coz, abby and co are stuck (up a tree) somewhere,  they need to  tie up lose ends, don't you think?

Graham

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