Primal
American animated television series
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| 2023 | Primal was nominated for the Critics' Choice Awards for Best Animated Series |
| 2023 | The TV series 'Primal' was nominated for the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for the episode 'Shadow of Fate' |
| 2023 | Scott Wills was nominated for the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production for 'Echoes of Eternity' |
| June 2023 | Third season of Primal was officially announced, with plans to transform the series into an anthology format featuring new characters |
| June 2023 | Second season's encore rerun left the Toonami block. |
| June 16 2023 | Primal was renewed for a third season, continuing the 10-episode format established in previous seasons. |
| April 25 2023 | Second season of Primal released on DVD and Blu-ray. |
| September 16 2022 | The second season of Primal concluded, ending Spear and Fang's storyline. |
| July 24 2022 | Second season encored on the Toonami block. |
| July 22 2022 | The second season of Primal premiered. |
| May 15 2022 | First season began a second run on the normal schedule of the Toonami block. |
| 2021 | David Krentz won the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation as a storyboard artist for 'Plague of Madness' |
| 2021 | Primal won the Annie Award for Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production |
| 2021 | Genndy Tartakovsky won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production for 'Plague of Madness' |
| 2021 | The TV series 'Primal' won the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for the episode 'Plague of Madness' |
| June 1 2021 | First season of Primal released on DVD and Blu-ray by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, with subsequent releases in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. |
| 2020 | Stephen DeStefano won the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for character design in 'A Cold Death' |
| 2020 | Scott Wills won the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation as art director for 'Spear and Fang' |
| 2020 | Genndy Tartakovsky won the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation as a storyboard artist for 'Spear and Fang' |
| 2020 | The first season of Primal was completed, consisting of episodes that followed the survival story of the main characters through a prehistoric landscape filled with dangerous creatures and environmental challenges. |
| November 29 2020 | First season of Primal broadcast during Thanksgiving weekend on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block, commemorating the launch on HBO Max. |
| October 4 2020 | Adult Swim announced the start of the second half of the first season. |
| August 31 2020 | The series was officially renewed for a second season, which will also consist of 10 episodes. |
| April 2020 | An episode from the second half of the first season was shown during Adult Swim's April Fools' Day run. |
| April 1 2020 | The second half of the first season began premiering, with remaining episodes releasing weekly after October 4, 2020. |
| 2019 | Primal, an animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky, premiered its first season, featuring a prehistoric warrior and a tyrannosaur forming an unlikely bond and surviving together in a harsh primordial world. |
| October 8 2019 | First season of Primal premiered, with episodes from the first half of the season airing daily from this date. |
| October 8 2019 | Primal premiered on Adult Swim, with the first 5 episodes released daily that same week. |
| 2018 | Genndy Tartakovsky completed work on Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, which influenced his approach to animation and led to the development of Primal. |
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