Total Sci Fi announced that ITV will not be renewing its sci-fi drama series Primeval.

“Basically ITV have changed their policy about drama before 9pm in that they’ve decided they really don’t want any, at least not of the quality and cost of Primeval,” Total Sci Fi attributed to a source close to the production. “The show remained as popular this run (in terms of audience share) as ever before but the fact is that everyone knows ITV have money problems and they’ve decided that whatever drama budget they’ve got left is better spent after 9pm.”

Total Sci Fi’s source also alluded to the awkward cutoff to the series, as well as fans’ likely response. “At the point where we finished the third series, we had every reason to believe we would be doing a fourth. Had we known there was any likelihood of cancellation, clearly we wouldn’t have left half the cast marooned up a tree in the distant past. We can understand that some fans might be frustrated by this ending and we’re sorry for that,” the source said.

Yet with rumors of a feature film or a U.S. release of the series, “Obviously we’re devastated that things should end this way with ITV. But we’re absolutely certain that although this stage of its evolution seems to be over, Primeval isn’t dead. We’re very proud of what we’ve achieved over the past three years and we have every intention of keeping Primeval alive in other ways.”

Primeval dealt with a cast of five scientists who patrolled temporal disturbances, and tracking down the creatures — both from past and future — who came out.

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