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CGI Park coming to Nine

Nine’s new Primeval series from the UK will premiere at 7:30pm on Saturday April 28.

The series is designed as an action-adventure for younger and family viewing. Nine had some success last year with Prehistoric Park on Sundays, a rather silly mix of documentary and drama.

Similarly, this mixes live actors and CGI dinosaurs but seems more clear on its target audience and that it is a work of fiction, unlike the other.

Prehistoric creatures burst through a tear in time and our team find themselves running for their lives from the hungry jaws of a flesh eating Gorgonopsid.

Nick Cutter, Evolutionary Zoologist, finds himself confronted with the subject of his studies in a way he could never have imagined. Prompted by the enthusiasm of his graduate student Connor Temple, Cutter and lab technician Stephen Hart go to investigate strange animal sightings in the Forest of Dean. Close by, Abby Maitland, a zoo animal handler, is discovering the forest is home to a very strange pet. Could a lizard picked up by a young boy be an entirely new species?

Claudia Brown, Civil Servant, hopes Cutter will dismiss the sightings. However, he’s reluctant to oblige. There’s more than professional intrigue behind his investigations; eight years ago his wife disappeared from the heart of the forest.

Cutter invites Claudia to join the search, and they find a petrified Abby face to face with Scutosaurus – a giant beast from the Permian Era of 250 million years ago. Abby’s convinced the Scutosaurus is “pure veggie”, so what’s behind the sickening sight of a dead cow hauled high into a tree?

The young boy’s tales of a monster at his window confirm Cutter’s worst fears. A savage Gorgonopsid – one of the most dangerous predators of the Permian Era – is on the loose. Only Stephen’s bravery manages to stop the boy and his teacher becoming its next meal.

Where are these creatures coming from? The Scutosaurus leads the team to the answer: a shimmering in the air, a distortion in the light and suddenly the Scutosaurus disappears before them. A rip in time – an anomaly – that leads back to prehistoric times. Cutter is determined to make the trip through, convinced that the answer to his wife’s disappearance could lie on the other side.

Government hatchet man Lester is reluctant to allow it, but decides the information is more valuable than Cutter’s life, and sanctions an exploratory mission. Cutter and Ryan (a Special Forces soldier) find themselves standing in a Permian desert, but become unnerved when they discover Helen Cutter’s camera buried in the sand. Is there a chance she’s still alive?

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