Showtime has announced just now that they have
renewed their brilliant Victorian gothic horror drama Penny Dreadful for a third season. With
only nine episodes, production will begin this Fall in Dublin, Ireland for a 2016
debut.
NEW YORK, NY – June 16, 2015 – SHOWTIME has renewed the critically-acclaimed, BAFTA
Award-winning drama series PENNY
DREADFUL for a third season, it was announced today
by David Nevins, President, Showtime Networks Inc. Created,
written and executive produced by three-time Oscar® nominee John
Logan, PENNY
DREADFUL stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green. A
co-production with Sky Atlantic, PENNY DREADFUL will once again shoot on
location in Dublin, Ireland for a nine episode order to debut in 2016. The
second season of PENNY
DREADFUL, currently airing on Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME, will air its
season finale on Sunday, July 5.
“John Logan’s brilliant writing and this amazingly
talented ensemble continue to draw a passionate, global fan base into the
meticulously crafted world ofPENNY DREADFUL,”
said Nevins. “Together with our wonderful partners at Sky Atlantic, we’re
excited to see what new haunts John and his team have in store for season
three.”
“PENNY DREADFUL is the perfect fit for Sky Atlantic; truly international in scale and ambition but with a raft of British talent at its core, and filmed in the Republic of Ireland.” said Zai Bennett, Director of Sky Atlantic. “I’m thrilled to have the series returning to the channel, and to once again be partnering with John Logan and continuing to work with our good friends at SHOWTIME.”
PENNY
DREADFUL’s second season has
found Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) and Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) forming a
deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr.
Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), and Sembene (Danny Sapani), unite to banish the
evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray (Reeve
Carney) and the Creature (Rory Kinnear) are all waging battles of their own.
Two-time Tony® Award
winner Patti LuPone appeared as a special guest star, a mysterious
character of great importance in Vanessa’s past. Helen McCrory returned as
Evelyn Poole, the seductive spiritualist who poses a unique threat to
our protagonists, along with Simon Russell Beale, who is back as eccentric
Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle. Additional guest stars include Douglas Hodge as
a Scotland Yard investigator and Sarah Greene as Poole’s powerful daughter,
Hecate.
PENNY
DREADFUL is created, written and executive produced by John
Logan (Hugo, The
Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Logan’s Desert Wolf
Productions, and by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Pippa
Harris’ (Revolutionary Road, Call
The Midwife) Neal Street Productions. A co-production with Sky
Atlantic, PENNY
DREADFUL is shot
on location in Dublin, Ireland. For more information and video clips, please
visit www.penny-dreadful.com.
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