Vancouver’s glass towers become hunting grounds for Niall Matter’s tech millionaire Evan Cross after a prehistoric predator kills his wife. He assembles a rogue unit including predator-behaviour specialist Sara Canning, ex-British soldier Danny Rahim and hacker Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe to track the spacetime rents that keep disgorging creatures. The 13 episodes pit them against terror birds in Stanley Park, a sea serpent under Burrard Inlet and future beetles that strip flesh in minutes, while government liaison Geoff Gustafson plots weaponisation.
Shot on the same city streets that doubled for the UK original, the series swaps London’s grey drizzle for Pacific rainforest and keeps the earlier show’s gore, yet Space channel cancelled it in February 2013 after one run. Andrew Lockington’s metallic score and plenty of dusk shoots give the carnivores a glossy menace, but ratings slid from 412,000 Canadian viewers to under half that by the finale. A spin-off novel, "Primeval: New World: The Ascent", arrived in 2024, resurrecting the anomaly-hunting team for readers when the screen version could not.
Production Details
Space / 1 Season / 13 Episodes / 2012
Created by: Mike Rohl, Amanda Tapping, Martin Wood
Writer(s): Tim Haines
Producer(s): Tim Haines, Martin Wood
Main Cast
Niall Matter as Evan Cross
Sara Canning as Dylan Weir
Danny Rahim as Mac Rendell
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe as Toby Nance
Miranda Frigon as Ange Finch
Geoff Gustafson as Lt. Ken Leeds
Andrew MacFarlane as James
Birkett Turton as Skeezer
