Primeval (American Remake)

Primeval is a 2014 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.

Plot
When portals in time called Anomalies start opening up across the United States allowing prehistoric creatures like Dinosaurs to roam the streets of New York City a team of scientists and animal experts led by Prof. Nick Cutter and his daughter Ellie try to contain both the anomalies and the creatures. But secretly Nick is searching for his wife ad Ellie's mother Helen who disappeared 10 years before and was presumed dead but it now looks like she isn't.

Cast and Characters
Bryan Cranston as Prof. Nick Cutter: A science professor as the University of Manhattan who has a daughter named Ellie. 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.

Ariana Grande as Ellie Cutter: Nick and Helen's nineteen 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.

Frankie Muniz 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.

Landon Liboiron as Stephen Hart: Cutters 20 year old research assistant at the University of Manhattan. He and Ellie are in a secretly relationship which is discovered by her father in the third episode but eventually allows them to continue it.

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.

Ben Miller as James Lester: The head of the Home Office in New York. He is sarcastic and and slightly arrogant about the the and believes that their skills are no match for the creatures, despite this he does care for them. (Ben Miller is the only cast member of the British series who reprises his role for the American Remake)

Shelly Conn as Helen Cutter: Nick's wife and Ellie's mother who disappeared back 2004 and was presumed dead by the police. She was later discovered to be alive and well as she had being travelling through time and adopted the name "The Time Travelling Gypsy", she was bought back to the Home Office against her will and accused Nick and Ellie of setting her up but she escaped. She later met with Cutter, Ellie, Lester and Claudia in the last episode to warn them of the Future Predator.