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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 US and UK 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.
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.
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
Country of origin: United States, United Kingdom
Original language: English
No. of seasons: 3
No. of episodes: 27
Plot:
The first season begins in London, 1891. Ethan Chandler, an American gunman and roadshow artist, is hired by the adventurer-explorer Malcolm Murray and the mysterious Vanessa Ives to help rescue Murray's daughter from a mysterious creature. They receive help from a young doctor named Victor Frankenstein who soon is stalked by an undead creature he once reanimated and abandoned. Ives becomes romantically involved with the handsome, artistic Dorian Gray but also finds herself haunted by Lucifer, who wishes to make her his bride and queen.
In the second season, Ives is hunted by a coven of witches led by the charismatic Evelyn Poole, who wants to deliver Ives to Lucifer. Frankenstein is forced to make his creature a bride, and an inspector investigates a grisly murder that Chandler committed in a London inn.
In the third season, the main characters find themselves scattered across the world – Ives is in London, consulting the alienist Florence Seward, Ethan is being extradited to the United States, and Murray is in Zanzibar. Count Dracula soon appears in London, setting the stage for the final battle for Ives' soul.
