| Douglas Henshall talks Return of Primeval Professor Nick Cutter, played by Douglas Henshall, was killed off in the third series, and then the popular show was cancelled. But last month ITV bosses brokered a deal which will see both a fourth and fifth series on our screens in 2011, and Douglas Henshall fans will soon be able to catch the actor in new ITV drama Collision, starting on Monday and running for five consecutive nights. While Douglas left Primeval to spend more time on stage and making films, he's not surprised that it's had a reprieve. "I thought that the writing was good enough and the premise was good enough, then if people liked it, it could go pretty much as long as it liked. As long as people had faith in it who were making it, then I thought it would be fine," said the 43-year-old. "It taps into an eternal thing in young people, dinosaurs, monsters and myths and legends. I went to the Natural History Museum the other week with my niece, she's in her twenties, she's not a kid, but we had to go down there because I thought she should see it. "Me and my partner, the three of us were walking through the dinosaur exhibit and kids, boys and girls were queuing and queuing to see this big Tyrannosaurus Rex and you think, 'What is it about dinosaurs?"' Coventry Telegraph David Bentley November 5th 2009-11-05 |