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PRIMEVAL: NEW WORLD - NBCUMB: PREMIERES ON SYFY IN 2013
SYFY ACQUIRES PRIMEVAL: NEW WORLD FROM ENTERTAINMENT ONE
SPIN-OFF OF HIT SERIES SLATED TO PREMIERE IN 2013
Syfy has acquired
Primeval: New World, the next generation of the hit
Primeval, from Entertainment One.
Scheduled to premiere on the Channel in 2013,
Primeval: New World joins Syfy's growing roster of popular original acquisitions including
Lost GirL,
Merlin and the upcoming
Sinbad.
The 13-episode series will star
Niall Matter (
Eureka)
Sara Canning (
The Vampire Diaries) and
Danny Rahim (
Young James Herriot) as a team of animal experts and scientists investigating paranormal events, while battling both prehistoric and futuristic creatures.
Amanda Tapping, who starred in the Syfy series
Sanctuary, is on board to direct several episodes.
Said
Chris Regina, Senior Vice President, Programming, Syfy: “
This fast-paced entertaining and smart series will delight fans of the original program as well as introduce new viewers to this fascinating world.”
“
We’re thrilled to be continuing our relationship with Syfy in securing another action drama with the network,” said
Jon Ferro, Senior Vice President, Program Sales, eOne. “
Primeval: New World has a great cast, solid story-telling and state of the art special effects - all the right elements to make it a success that fits right in with Syfy’s stellar line up.”
Based on the original series from Impossible Pictures,
Primeval: New World’s creative team is led by Executive Producers
Martin Wood (
Sanctuary,
Stargate: Atlantis) and
Gillian Horvath (
Sanctuary,
Highlander). The spin-off was created by
Judith and
Garfield Reeves-Stevens (
Star Trek: Enterprise,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World) and will be written by
Gillian Horvath,
Peter Hume (
Charmed,
Flash Gordon),
Jon Cooksey (
The Collector,
The Outer Limits),
Sarah Dodd (
Flashpoint,
Arctic Air),
Katherine Collins (
Endgame), and
Judith and
Garfield Reeve-Stevens.
PRIMEVAL: NEW WORLD follows the story of a North American team that discovers dinosaurs and other dangerous predators emerging onto the streets of modern-day Vancouver through anomalies in time. EVAN CROSS (
Niall Matter), visionary inventor, heads up the team - predator control expert DYLAN WEIR (
Sara Canning), security specialist MAC RENDELL (
Danny Rahim), and physics prodigy TOBY NANCE (
Crystal Lowe). ANGE FINCH (
Miranda Frigon), Evan's oldest friend and business partner, keeps Cross Photonics afloat while Evan and his Special Projects Group track escapee dinosaurs, with the overeager help of LIEUTENANT KEN LEEDS (
Geoff Gustafson), head of the government’s decommissioned department for investigating alien life and other mysteries - including Anomalies. Throughout Season 1, the characters quickly gain expertise in the prehistoric creatures they hunt, the weapons they need to handle them, and the nature of the Anomalies themselves. They face danger side by side, and come to rely on each other for not only survival, but comfort and intimacy as well.
