Broadcast is reporting that a post-watershed all-new version of Primeval has been ordered by Canadian broadcaster Space for transmission next year.

The new series, with a “younger sexier cast”, will focus on a group of North American scientists and animal experts who investigate the arrival of prehistoric and futuristic creatures in the modern-day world – a transplant of the original idea across the Atlantic. Episodes are budgeted at around £1.6m each with 13 one hour instalments commissioned from Impossible Pictures. According to Broadcast, the show will be “older, darker and scarier.”

Production starts in Vancouver later this year with Impossible’s managing director Jonathan Drake telling Broadcast, “This will be a bigger, better, badder re-imagining of the show, rather than a continuation. We are really looking forward to working with [production company] Omni to help make a series that can exceed even the huge success of the original Primeval in international markets and with viewers across the world.”

Update: 16.45 September 15: In a blog on their website, Space call the show Primeval: New World and state it “will build on the UK Primeval mythology, taking place in the same universe that we’ve come to know and love.  The story will centre on a new Canadian team of animal experts taking on whatever past or future creatures come through the anomalies that are now appearing around the world.”

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