Primeval
"Some force out there ripped the boundaries of time and space to shreds!"
OMGOSH PPL!
ITV exec 1; Well, the BBC played a blinder with Torchwood. Clearly scifi is where it's at these days. We need us some kind of scifi series. 'Celebrities falling on their arses trying to ice skate' isn't pulling the veiwing figures we expected.
ITV exec 2; Hey, it's been a few years since Jurrasic Park. No one remembers that shit. Lets go Dino!
Hmmmmm, we'll need a cute and harmless lil' dino, a large and impressive herbivore and a big scary ass predator.
They bring in the writers who 'flesh it out'.
How did these Dinosaurs get here? Why an inexplicable time portal of course!
Characters? Throw together a 'Prof who's wife disappeared through the "anomaly" a few years previously', his reasonably attractive leather jacket wearing assistant, who doubles as an expert tracker. 'Lizard expert girl', who is cute and pretty and as far as I see only serves as a love interest for 'leather coat guy' (I think he was in Hollyoaks, but I don't watch that shit so I couldn't be sure). 'Works in some capacity for the Home Office woman', who I suppose will serve as an angsty love interest for the prof if his wife is indeed dead. Oh and 'conspiracy theorist loser guy'. He should be good for a few laughs.
Are you gripped yet? No, frankly I'm not either. Still, next week brings us long extinct giant bugs of DOOM! I'll give it a go.
There's sod all else on this time on a Saturday.
OMGOSH PPL!
ITV exec 1; Well, the BBC played a blinder with Torchwood. Clearly scifi is where it's at these days. We need us some kind of scifi series. 'Celebrities falling on their arses trying to ice skate' isn't pulling the veiwing figures we expected.
ITV exec 2; Hey, it's been a few years since Jurrasic Park. No one remembers that shit. Lets go Dino!
Hmmmmm, we'll need a cute and harmless lil' dino, a large and impressive herbivore and a big scary ass predator.
They bring in the writers who 'flesh it out'.
How did these Dinosaurs get here? Why an inexplicable time portal of course!
Characters? Throw together a 'Prof who's wife disappeared through the "anomaly" a few years previously', his reasonably attractive leather jacket wearing assistant, who doubles as an expert tracker. 'Lizard expert girl', who is cute and pretty and as far as I see only serves as a love interest for 'leather coat guy' (I think he was in Hollyoaks, but I don't watch that shit so I couldn't be sure). 'Works in some capacity for the Home Office woman', who I suppose will serve as an angsty love interest for the prof if his wife is indeed dead. Oh and 'conspiracy theorist loser guy'. He should be good for a few laughs.
Are you gripped yet? No, frankly I'm not either. Still, next week brings us long extinct giant bugs of DOOM! I'll give it a go.
There's sod all else on this time on a Saturday.