Series 5 of Primeval, also known as Primeval V, has been confirmed to air in May 2011, and there are to be six episodes in it. It will première on Watch, as part of the cost-sharing deal that allowed the resurrection of Primeval, before being repeated on ITV.
This series will focus more on Philip Burton and his goals for Connor Temple and the ARC as well as Matt Anderson and his secret mission. The series will focus more on the characters' respective motives and intentions.
# The Series 5 trailer will be released by UKTV’s Watch about two to three weeks prior to transmission.
# Watch has made a special promo that features one of the cast members. This has been revealed to be Ben Mansfield as Hilary Becker.
# Watch has a "YouTube game" in development. Nothing else has been released about this.
# Watch has launched a special Facebook page that will feature new material every day for the last 30 days up to the premiere.
* Before Series 4 even aired, a fan began posting "leaked" episode plots on the web. They were completely fan-made and have nothing to do with the actual Series 4 and Series 5 episodes. These fan fictions originated on either IMDB or TVrage and can also be found on other sites, such as Blogomatic3000, that took them for fact.
* After Series 4 finished on ITV1, many fans began to speculate that Philip Burton would cause Connor Temple to mutate into a Future Predator. This is also completely false.
* Other rumours involving Connor Temple have spread across the web, including rumours that he will die in Series 5, rumours that he will leave Abby Maitland for a relationship with April, and rumours that Philip Burton will shoot him. None of these rumours have any factual basis, and the rumour about Connor and April has been confirmed to be false.
* There is also a rumour that Philip Burton will create the Future Predator, this has no factual basis, and is most likely false, due to the fact that Burton doesn't care about the creatures and sees them as a distraction, focusing on the anomalies.
* When the rumours surrounding Episode 4.7 about a creature incursion within the ARC during and the creatures in the Menagerie becoming involved in a huge battle were proved false, rumours began that this would happen in Series 5 and that this would mark the return of Sid and Nancy. There is nothing official indicating a creature battle in the ARC and Sid and Nancy were confirmed not to reappear in Series 5.