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Penny Dreadful
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★ 7.8Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
- Aired
- 2014–2016
- Seasons
- 3 · 27 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- John Logan
- Network
- Showtime
- Genres
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure
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Key facts
- Genre
- Drama Gothic horror Thriller Dark fantasy Historical fantasy
- Created by
- John Logan
- Written by
- John Logan Andrew Hinderaker Krysty Wilson-Cairns
- Starring
- Reeve Carney Timothy Dalton Eva Green Rory Kinnear Billie Piper Danny Sapani Harry Treadaway Josh Hartnett Helen McCrory Simon Russell Beale Patti LuPone Wes Studi
- Theme music composer
- Abel Korzeniowski Tom Kitt (series finale)
- Opening theme
- "Demimonde" by Abel Korzeniowski "A Prayer" by Sophie Meade (series finale)
- Composer
- Abel Korzeniowski
- Countries of origin
- United States United Kingdom
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 27 ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Pippa Harris Sam Mendes John Logan Karen Richards
- Producers
- James Flynn Morgan O'Sullivan Sheila Hockin
- Production locations
- Dublin London
- Cinematography
- Xavi Giménez Nigel Willoughby P. J. Dillon Owen McPolin John Conroy
- Editors
- Geoff Ashenhurst Aaron Marshall Michele Conroy Christopher Donaldson
- Running time
- 47–60 minutes
- Production companies
- Desert Wolf Productions Neal Street Productions Showtime Networks
- Network
- Showtime (US) Sky Atlantic (UK)
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Encyclopedic overview
Penny Dreadful is a horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan, who also acts as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes. The show was originally pitched to several American and British channels, and eventually landed with Showtime, with Sky Atlantic as co-producer. It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 9 and began airing on television on April 28, 2014, on Showtime on Demand. The series premiered on Showtime in the United States on May 11, 2014, and on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2014. After the third-season finale on June 19, 2016, series creator John Logan announced that Penny Dreadful had ended as the main story had reached its conclusion.
The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century Victorian Gothic fiction, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Renfield, and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, showing their origin stories as an explorer searches for his daughter. Justine from Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by the Marquis de Sade also appears.
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