Primeval (American Remake)

Primeval is a 2016 Science Fiction Drama Television Series created by Tim Haines and Produced by Steven Spielberg. It is a remake of the British Science Fiction Show Primeval created by Tim Haines and Adrian Hodges, like the original it was also created by Tim Haines, who created the original series and was co-produced with Steven Spielberg. It first aired on April 2nd 2016 and concluded on July 2nd of the same year. Despite receiving mostly positive reviews and winning a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, it was cancelled after a single season.

Plot
Ten years after his wife Helen disappeared, evolutionary zoologist Professor Nick Cutter - along with his daughter Katie, her boyfriend friend Stephen Hart, Nick's geeky student Connor Temple, zookeeper Abby Maitland, Special Forces leader Captain Tom Ryan, former Navy Seals soldier Ben Thompson, FBI Agent Danny Quinn and government officials James Lester and Claudia Brown - discovers that mysterious rifts in time and space called Anomalies are allowing creature from across Earth's history to run rampant in the present; and the group subsequently become a Home Office research team tasked with predicting the Anomalies and containing the creatures which come through them, and learning more about the Anomalies and why they are happening.

However, Cutter secretly has an agenda of his own about the Anomaly operation: as the team investigate the Anomalies, Cutter begins to find more clues that imply his long-missing wife Helen is alive and living in the past on the other sides of the Anomalies. The rest of the team eventually learn of this, and that Helen is indeed alive and in the past, but she has been greatly changed by her time there and her study into the Anomalies, and the team are uncertain which side she is on. Eventually, Helen seemingly allies with the team to find and contain a future Anomaly located the past and to combat a deadly predator from the future which is on a killing spree in the present; but while Nick, Katie and Helen are searching in the past for the future Anomaly, Nick discovers that Helen only wanted to find the Anomaly and see the future, and after Captain Ryan is killed, Nick and Katie returns to the present. However, there, Cutter and Katie find that Claudia Brown has been erased from the timeline while they and Helen were in the past.

Main Characters

 * Bryan Cranston as Nick Cutter - A  science professor as the University of Manhattan and the father of Katie. Ten years before his wife Helen disappeared whilst investigating a creature sighting, ten years on when the anomalies start opening he begins to realize that his wife isn't dead
 * Violett Beane as Katie Cutter - Nick and Helen's 19 year old daughter who is a student at the university where her father works. She is secretly dating her father's research assistant Stephen Hart, when the anomalies start opening up she and her father realize that her mother may not be dead.
 * Landon Liboiron as Stephen Hart - Cutters 20 year old research assistant at the University of Manhattan. He and Amanda are in a secretly relationship which is discovered by her father in the third episode but eventually allows them to continue it.
 * Corey Hawkins as Connor Temple - A student who attends the university where Cutter works. He is a dinosaur and prehistoric animals enthusiast who gladly accepts his job on Cutters team, he is also a techno geek who builds a number of devices for the team to use.
 * Tania Raymonde as Abby Maithland - A half Native American woman who works at the Bronx Zoo and with a love of animals. She joins Cutters team and despite using a gun she does not wish to kill any of the creatures, she and Connor were childhood friends and eventually start a relationship after her from her abusive boyfriend is killed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
 * Keri Russell as Claudia Brown - A woman who works for the home office in New York and had recently moved to New York from London. She is a strong woman who concerns about the well fair of the team whilst they fight against the creatures, she and Cutter fall in love but in the last episode of the series she vanishes and no one remembers her and or even knows her, except for Nick, Katie and Helen.
 * James Miller as James Lester - The head of the Home Office in New York. He is sarcastic and slightly arrogant about the team, as he believes that their skills are no match for the creatures, despite this he does care for them.
 * Elizabeth Mitchell as Helen Cutter - Nick's wife and Katie's mother who disappeared back 2002 and was presumed dead by the police. She was later discovered to be alive and well as she had been travelling through time, she was bought back to the Home Office against her will and accused Nick and Katie of setting her up but she escaped. She later met with Cutter, Katie, Lester and Claudia in the last episode to warn them of the Future Predator.
 * Billy Burke as Tom Ryan - A Special Forces soldier who served in both the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. He believes basically that they should just shoot the creatures rather then return them but knows they can't, he dies in the last episode but not before revealing to Cutter and Katie that the skeleton they found in the first episode was him.
 * Ashley Zukerman as Ben Thompson - A former member of the Navy Seals who becomes captain of the security force.
 * Johnathon Schaech as Agent Danny Quinn - An FBI agent who is assigned by the President to help the team. At first he is uncertain of the team
 * Rex - A highly intelligent Coelurosauravus who was found by Zack Baker and was given to the Bronx Zoo. Nick and Cutter attempted to take him back to his time period, but unbeknownst to them he came back. Rex then became Connor and Abby's pet and currently resides in their apartment, Rex is the only creature to appear in every episode.

Recurring Characters

 * Richard Jenkins as Tim Parker -
 * Alex Russell as Tommy - One of Connor's best friend who is a conspiracy theorist.
 * Portia Doubleday as Tania - Tommy's girlfriend who is one of Connor best friends.
 * Frankie Muniz as Duncan - Another Connor's best friends who is a conspiracy theorist like Tommy and Tania.
 * Abbey Ryder Fortson as Cassie - Ben and Jenna's six year old daughter. She lives with her father ever since her mother decided to focus on her career, she adores her father but wishes to spend time with her mother. Jenna only sees her when she wants to show her off,
 * Alison Miller as Jenna - Ben's ex girlfriend and the mother of Cassie. She is a ruthless news reporter who is determined to boost career, no matter what the cost. She and Ben were in a relationship once until she became concerned about her career and left him and their daughter, she later came into a relationship with Harry her cameraman. Over the series she attempts to expose the team often with no success, later after she tried to film footage of the team fighting a Tyrannosaurus Rex she lost her job.
 * TBA as Harry Smith - Jenna's cameraman who she is in a relationship with. He
 * Mark Hamill as Detective Pierce - A detective in the New York Police Department. He becomes suspicious of the mysterious animal attacks that the team deals with, however after being saved from a Tyrannosaurus Rex he comes to respect the team. He also calls them to sightings with a code "donuts and coffee".

Guest Characters

 * Ty Simpkins as Zack Baker - A 12 year old boy who found Rex whilst on a camping trip with his family.
 * Geno Segers as Frank Eaglefeather -
 * TBA as Girlfriend -
 * TBA as Boyfriend -
 * Colm Meaney as Elder Saul - An Amish elder and the main antagonist of The Spike-Tailed Crusader. He is a ruthless and zealous Amish elder who views the entire world and everything in it as a sin, with only New Jerusalem the only holy place on Earth. He is also disliked by the nearby town of Beaver's Hollow due to him also ruining the Saint Patrick's, Halloween and Christmas celebrations.
 * TBA as Daniel Bowman -
 * TBA as Rebecca Bowman -
 * Joaquim de Almeida as Schanez Gavi - A notorious drug baron who operates in the Amazon rainforest and the main antagonist of Never Smile at a Crocodile. He is the largest cocaine grower and supplier in Brazil, he also has several members of the Brazilian police in his pocket. When the team arrived in Brazil to locate an anomaly, he had his men take them captive after believing they'd come to disrupt his business.

Creatures

 * Ammonite - An ancient marine cephalopod mollusks with discus-shaped shells that ranged from the Devonian to the Cretaceous. One appeared at the end of the first episode, where it was left for Nick and Katie by Helen as a calling card, it was dying due to being out of water.
 * Anourognathus -
 * Coelursauravus -
 * Deinosuchus -
 * Dimetrodon -
 * Diplodocus -
 * Edaphosaurus -
 * Entelodon -
 * Future Predator - An extremely dangerous and highly evolved predator from the future.
 * Giganotosaurus -
 * Hesperonis -
 * Iguanodon -
 * Megalodon -
 * Styracosaurus -
 * Parasite -
 * Pteranodon -
 * Stegosaurus - An armored dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation in North America. A Stegosaurus was the main creature in the episode "Armored Crusader", where it emerged from an anomaly into an Amish community. It was then domesticated by them and was then used by Elder Saul to launch his crusade to purify the world.
 * Titanis -
 * Triceratops -
 * Tylosaurus -
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex -

Differences from the British series

 * Nick and Helen have a daughter called Katie, whereas in the original series they didn't have any children.
 * Helen has been missing for 10 years, in the original series she had been missing for 8 years.
 * Katie and Steven are in a relationship, whereas in the original series Steven has a crush on Abby.
 * Connor and Abby have known each other since high school, in the original series they didn't met until the Scutosaurus.
 * Connor is African American.
 * Steven and Helen never have a affair in the series, Helen instead has an affair with a man she knew in high school.
 * Danny Quinn is an FBI agent who is with the team from the beginning, in the original series he was a police detective who joined the team in season 3.
 * Ben Thompson is an original character in the remake, he has no counterpart in the original series.
 * Connor has a third friend, a girl named Tania who is Tom's girlfriend. In the original series only Tom and Duncan are his friends and Tom doesn't have a girlfriend.
 * Tom is called Tommy in the remake.
 * The remakes first season features more creatures then the original first season.
 * The remake is set in 2012, in the original it was set in 2007.
 * The remake is much darker and more violent than the original series, it features bloody violence, profanity, sex and nudity.
 * The setting for the series in New York City.

Trivia

 * Ben Miller reprises his role as James Lester from the original British series.
 * The series music was composed by Dominik Scherrer who also composed the music original series.
 * The series was co-created by original series creator, Tim Haines.