Douglas Henshall Sees Bright Future For Primeval
Written by Ian Cullen on November 12, 2009 – 11:00 am -
Douglas Henshall who played the late paleontology expert Nick Cutter in the hit ITV1 series primeval may have left the series, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t fond of the series.
In fact he is perhaps one of the shows staunchest supporters.
In a recent interview for regional newspaper The Chester Chronicle Henshall said that he is not in the least bit surprised that the show has proved such a success. Read more »
Tags: Dinosaurs, Douglas Henshall, ITV, Nick Cutter, Primeval
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Aubrey Eager For Primeval Return
Written by Ian Cullen on October 13, 2009 – 11:39 am -
A couple of weeks ago fans whooped and cheered at the news that Primeval was to return to television thanks to a deal between BBC Worldwide, UKTV and ITV, and it seems we were not the only ones doing the whooping.
Although she looked to have been polished off by a raptor at the tail end of season three Juliet Aubrey who played the role of Helen Cutter, the deranged psychotic wife of Nick Cutter has expressed her wishes to return to the series.
Talking to Wired Magazine late last week. The British actor said that she’d be surprised if the time traveling Helen Cutter didn’t return to the show or maybe even her clone perhaps.
Tags: BBC Worldwide, Hellen Cutter, ITV, Juliet Aubrey, Nick Cutter, Primeval, Raptor, UKTV
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Writer and Cast Give Insight About ‘The Prisoner’
Written by Ian Cullen on October 2, 2009 – 11:30 am -
With only a month to go before AMC premiers their six part re-imagining of The Prisoner. Its fair to say that old fans and new want to learn more about this new take on a cult classic.
The new issue of SFX Magazine features a massive four page spread which outlines the new series and has comments from Sir Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel and the shows writer Bill Gallagher, and below is just a snippet of the information they shared.
Although this is an entirely new version of The Prisoner Bill Gallagher is quick to point out that he’s gone out of his way to be respectful of the original source material, and though set in a different location with a new Number Six and the same Number Two throughout. Certain things have stayed from the classic series. Thing’s such as the Rover’s and the saying, ‘Be seeing you’ are unchanged. As is the fact that each resident on the desert has a number.
What has changed is the allegory for the show! In the original sixties version the focus was on the individual and individuality and that persons right to do as he pleases, hence the phrase, ‘I’m not a number. I am a free man.’ Gallagher takes this question about individual rights and turns in on it’s head while simultaneously commenting on today’s surveillance dominated society.
In the Sixties The Prisoner asked questions about individuality, due in part to the fact that people were waking up to the power of individuality in that time. The new show asks what is surveillance, why do we need it and whose doing it. And when it comes to individuality Gallagher has the following question within his story for us to contemplate.
“What if the problem is mass individualism? What happens to us as a species if that becomes dangerous? If it’s so out of kilter that it begins to threaten our existence, for instance?” Read more »
Tags: AMC, Bill Gallagher, Ian McKellen, ITV, Jim Caviezel, The Prisoner
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