 Primeval, ITV Goes Rar! This Spring! |
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 Jan 23 2007, 10:39 PM
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Space Cowboy  Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262  |
ITV are already firing the opening salvos in what is sure to be the head-to-head contest of the spring TV schedules.
It's time travelling dinosaurs vs. a time travelling phone box as the channel pins their ratings hopes on the new Saturday night series Primeval (note the clever spelling there!). You can read more about the premise for the series, and watch a trailer for it, here: ITV: Primeval. With effects from the team behind Walking With Dinosaurs this sounds an awful lot like the series – whose name I’ve already forgotten – that ITV pushed out to challenge Who last year, although this time - as the propaganda proudly proclaims - the emphasis is strictly on Adventure! (with a capital A!). Hit or Miss? I guess time will tell . . . 
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Jan 23 2007, 11:55 PM
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Feeling kinda high like a Hendrix haze Group: Senior Members Posts: 1,000 Joined: 3-May 06 From: The North Member No.: 5,150 |
I saw the ad for this at the cinema last week. Another S Club member makes it onto prime time telly.
Funny thing about the title, we wait years for a monster thingy called Primeval and then two come along at once. What a croc |
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Jan 24 2007, 01:12 AM
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Space Cowboy Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262 |
QUOTE (purple prole @ Jan 23 2007, 11:55 PM) Funny thing about the title, we wait years for a monster thingy called Primeval and then two come along at once. What a croc  Yeah, that threw me for a bit when I saw it as well. |
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Jan 24 2007, 10:13 AM
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Alley Viper Group: Senior Members Posts: 11,843 Joined: 29-December 04 From: Cobra Island Member No.: 3,024 |
QUOTE (Raven @ Jan 23 2007, 10:39 PM) With effects from the team behind Walking With Dinosaurs this sounds an awful lot like the series – whose name I’ve already forgotten – that ITV pushed out to challenge Who last year, although this time - as the propaganda proudly proclaims - the emphasis is strictly on Adventure! (with a capital A!). Prehistoric Park. Which was dire. I'm guessing this will be too. |
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Jan 24 2007, 10:37 AM
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Space Cowboy Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262 |
QUOTE (Starscream`s Ghost @ Jan 24 2007, 10:13 AM) Prehistoric Park. Which was dire. I'm guessing this will be too. The casting of someone from S-Club doesn't bode well, but then again people said similar things about Billie Piper . . . Personally I can see what ITV are trying to do here, what with dinosaurs obviously being a big draw an' all, but I'm wondering if they would have been better off putting this up against the next series of Robin Hood rather than Doctor Who, which is surely going to wipe the floor with it? |
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Jan 24 2007, 11:11 AM
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When doves cry Group: Senior Members Posts: 6,660 Joined: 6-October 05 Member No.: 4,533 |
The fact that it's on ITV instantly puts it into the category of tosh. I have never been impressed by anything ITV has put out. Ever.
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Jan 24 2007, 12:30 PM
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Space Cowboy Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262 |
QUOTE (zeden @ Jan 24 2007, 11:11 AM) The fact that it's on ITV instantly puts it into the category of tosh. I have never been impressed by anything ITV has put out. Ever. They are good at crime dramas, such as Morse and Poirot etc, but they have a seemingly infallible ability to turn a good sci-fi premise into something that doesn't come close to living up to expectations (The Last Train anyone?!  ).
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Jan 24 2007, 12:43 PM
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Early 80's Tom Hanks Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,693 Joined: 6-October 05 From: Isle of Dogs, London Member No.: 4,536 |
ITV produced Chimera in 1991 and aged 11 watching that, I shat myself. I'm not exactly sure how frightening it would be now but it wasn't a bad for a scifi/horror series.
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Jan 24 2007, 12:49 PM
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Invader. Group: Senior Members Posts: 8,256 Joined: 27-November 04 From: The Burgh of Edin. Member No.: 2,823 |
They also produced the very good but overlooked Oktober and the extremely good Second Coming.
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Jan 24 2007, 12:54 PM
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Early 80's Tom Hanks Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,693 Joined: 6-October 05 From: Isle of Dogs, London Member No.: 4,536 |
Apparently Oktober and Chimera were both done by the same guy, who used to write for Doctor Who in the early eighties, Steven Gallagher.
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Jan 24 2007, 01:33 PM
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Space Cowboy Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262 |
Yep, to be fair Oktober was good (I haven't seen Second Coming).
I remember seeing Chimera (I was 20 at the time!) but I don't remember it being that good. Stephen Gallagher also wrote last years Eleventh Hour, which stared Patrick Stewart and Ashley Jensen, and I think it demonstrates quite nicely my thoughts about ITV sci-fi dramas - the concept was good, the cast was excellent, but overall it just dull as dish water. |
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Jan 24 2007, 02:01 PM
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Feel the Rainbow Group: Senior Members Posts: 4,717 Joined: 4-February 05 From: Sitting between Civil Liberties and the Data Protection Act Member No.: 3,341 |
QUOTE As history roars off the pages of his books, Cutter's own, intensely private battle continues to rage. Haunted by the disappearance of his wife, Helen (Juliet Aubrey) some eight years previous, he has never given up hope of finding her alive. As the prehistoric investigation intensifies, he begins to suspect that events are somehow linked. I hate to prejudge things too much but come on!! - failure straight off. I wish ITV had taken my idea for time travelling, ninja, robo, dinosaurs ghosts from Mars a bit more seriously now. Ah well, as long as the sponsorships keep rolling in and the public complains very little. -m0r |
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Jan 24 2007, 06:25 PM
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Life's a grave, dig it. Group: Senior Members Posts: 4,030 Joined: 6-November 04 From: A spoon cupboard somewhere. Member No.: 2,711 |
It sounds quite good but I imagine it'll be shit.
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Jan 25 2007, 12:26 AM
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Space Cowboy Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262 |
I just saw a trailer for this on TV.
The team all stood around in a "striking" V formation. Looked a lot like Torchwood, but without the rain . . . 
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Feb 7 2007, 07:34 PM
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Space Cowboy Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262 |
Well, the series starts this Saturday at 7.45pm on ITV1.
The timing strikes me as a little odd, given that it's being touted as ITV's reply to Doctor Who. If the Timelord does take to the air again before the end of March, as rumour suggests, the two aren't going to be going head-to-head at any point - do the ITV execs know when they've been beat? 
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