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  • 2007
  • TV-14
  • BBC America
  • 2007
  • TV-14
  • BBC America

Summary Primeval, a high-budget series, follows Professor Nick Cutter and his team as they investigate anomalies in time found in the Forest of Dean. An unfortunate side-effect of the anomalies is that dinosaurs are moving through them and into the present time, making the team's investigations that much more stressful. Cutter's wife also disapp...

  • 2007
  • TV-14
  • BBC America
  • 2007
  • TV-14
  • BBC America

Primeval

5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 10, 2007
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 81 User Ratings
6.3
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Summary Primeval, a high-budget series, follows Professor Nick Cutter and his team as they investigate anomalies in time found in the Forest of Dean. An unfortunate side-effect of the anomalies is that dinosaurs are moving through them and into the present time, making the team's investigations that much more stressful. Cutter's wife also disapp...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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85% Positive
17 Reviews
15% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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85% Positive
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15% Mixed
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0% Negative
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80
It's a rollicking adventure with decent special effects and better stories and character development than, say, Sci Fi Channel's "Eureka."
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
80
With its campy humor, poignant drama and potent scares, Primeval will appeal equally to adults and children.
By Hal Boedeker FULL REVIEW
80
Dinosaurs are certainly alive and well in Primeval, a crackling-good new BBC America sci-fi series thriller that's packed with vivid CGI prehistoric predators galore and a story line that's almost plausible.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 3, 2011
Primeval (which has already been renewed for a fifth season) doesn't ask you to think, just to enjoy the mayhem that follows when a rampaging behemoth is set loose anywhere in the United Kingdom. It's hard to find fault with a formula like that.
By Mark A. Perigard FULL REVIEW
70
The camp factor churned out is fairly high, and with Primeval, a new series starting Saturday on BBC America, it climbs up Big Ben and right on over the top of the London Eye.
By Ginia Bellafante FULL REVIEW
63
This show could evolve into something more interesting than a guilty pleasure.
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50
Almost from the get-go there's far more galumphing than trotting going on, and not all of it done by prehistoric feet. Things pick up in the third episode and there are dodos in the fourth, but it's not enough, no, not nearly enough.
By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 81 User Ratings
6.3
65% Positive
53 Ratings
7% Mixed
6 Ratings
27% Negative
22 Ratings

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Generally Favorable Based on 81 User Ratings
6.3
65% Positive
53 Ratings
7% Mixed
6 Ratings
27% Negative
22 Ratings

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Production Company:
  • ITV Productions
  • Impossible Pictures
  • M6 Films
  • ProSieben
  • Treasure Entertainment
Initial Release Date: Feb 10, 2007
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Visual Effects Society Awards
• 1 Nomination
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination

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