Hannah Spearritt on 'Primeval' future: 'No news on sixth series'
Published Jun 12 2012, 11:40 BST | By Morgan Jeffery
Hannah Spearritt has cast doubt on the future of Primeval.A fifth series of the sci-fi drama will debut on ITV1 on Saturday (June 16), a year after the episodes aired on digital channel Watch.
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On the prospect of a sixth run, Spearritt told TV Choice: "There's been no mention of it to me. It's a difficult one. We've had five series and it would be lovely if it did carry on. [But] it's kind of tough though because I hope it hasn't lost momentum.
"If we made another one, by the time it's shown again, all the fans will have been waiting a couple of years and I don't know if that's entirely fair."
A new Primeval spinoff - subtitled New World - was officially announced in February 2012.
"I'm excited about seeing [the spinoff show], and it's nice that the concept carries on," said Spearritt. "I'm just intrigued really to see how they do it."
The "older, darker and scarier" series has filmed in Vancouver and will be broadcast on Watch in late 2012.
"It'll be interesting to see what they do with the locations," she added. "I suppose it will be strange, but I'm excited for it as well."
It is currently unclear if ITV will transmit Primeval: New World.
> Primeval Q&A: Series five preview
Watch a clip from the fifth series of Primeval below:
I really enjoy Primeval and hope it returns too, but I really, really, really hope they stop the use of that God awful handheld "shaky" cam technique. It's way overused, annoying, headache inducing and really does detract from the action. You'd sometimes think the episodes were directed by Uwe Boll it's used that much.
July 14th 2012 at 11:37pm
should do s6-my daughter loves the show-shame on the fans-we had to wait yrs for season 4/5 but come on s6 now-
June 30th 2012 at 12:36pm
Despite how fantastic the show is, it's pretty clear ITV are ending it by advertising the fifth series as "the beginning of the end".
June 14th 2012 at 7:39pm
Get rid of all the crap shows around and let this return....
June 14th 2012 at 1:11pm
Sad that the show never quite found its feet. i always enjoyed it but it never felt like ITV had any faith that it should be doing things like this.
June 14th 2012 at 6:45am(+1 like)