It's been a year and a half since Space and Bell
Media cancelled Primeval: New World, the Canadian spin-off to the British
sci-fi show, Primeval. After that, I spent a year hopping Syfy would pick it up
after its US run, but nothing's happened since.
Now, if I'm not mistaken, Netflix has their own original content on
their VOD service. Some of their shows are previously cancelled shows that they
revived such as Arrested Development, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Killing,
and Canada's own Trailer Park Boys. At one point, they were interested in
picking up Terra Nova.
It’s been three years since Watch cancelled Primeval. I’ve heard of the
show after watching the trailer on the DVD copy of Roland Emmerich’s 10, 000 B.C.
but the first time I actually watched it was on YouTube, when I saw the clip of
the Gorgonopsid vs Future Predator fight scene and it blew my mind completely. A
few months later, I found out there was a Primeval marathon happening on Space.
After it ended, there was a trailer to New World, and I waited until after the
summer for the premier. I’ve watched every episode on Space. It was my favorite
show since Fox cancelled Terra Nova. That Christmas, I got all five seasons of
the original series on DVD. Two months after New World was cancelled, I got the
complete series on Blu-ray, which completed my collection. I watch the whole
show at my cottage with my family and they actually liked it
If Netflix were to revive the shows, this could finally lift us from the
weight of the cliffhangers they ended off on. Matt Anderson’s future
self-telling him to “go back”. Evan Cross and Dylan Weir running to the closing
anomaly back to their home time period, as the other anomalies start closing
around them one-by-one. What did they change? What happened in the future? Are
these events somehow linked? Could this lead to what could be a potential
crossover in the form of a television movie or a two-part mini-series? Yeah.
Primeval: Continuum. Sounds sick.
Also, it can give Netflix their own-shared universe, like Marvel.
Netflix won’t have to air the shows in the United Kingdom. In the UK, the shows
cold premier on ITV and be repeated on Watch (rather than the other way
around), and outside the UK, they would be labeled as “Netflix Original”.
Those who are reading this, please sign this petition so Impossible
Pictures, Omni Film Productions and Bell Media find a home for Primeval and
Primeval: New World at Netflix. The best VOD service in history and the guys who
put Blockbusters out of business.
They should revive the show, with the new technology for visual effects it would be great. And if the promos for the show is done correctly it can be a success for the platform.