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Penny Dreadful (TV series)

Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful title card.jpg
Genre
Created by John Logan
Written by John Logan
Andrew Hinderaker
Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Starring
Theme music composer Abel Korzeniowski
Tom Kitt (series finale)
Opening theme "Demimonde" by Abel Korzeniowski
"A Prayer" by Sophie Meade (series finale)
Composer(s) Abel Korzeniowski
Country of origin
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 27 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Pippa Harris
  • Sam Mendes
  • John Logan
  • Karen Richards
Producer(s) James Flynn
Morgan O'Sullivan
Sheila Hockin
Location(s)
Cinematography
  • Xavi Gimenez
  • Nigel Willoughby
  • P. J. Dillon
  • Owen McPolin
  • John Conroy
Editor(s)
  • Geoff Ashenhurst
  • Aaron Marshall
  • Michele Conroy
  • Christopher Donaldson
Running time 47–60 minutes
Production company(s)
  • Desert Wolf Productions
  • Neal Street Productions
Release
Original network
Original release May 11, 2014 (2014-05-11) – June 19, 2016 (2016-06-19)
External links
Official website
Production website

Penny Dreadful is a British-American 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. The series premiered on Showtime on May 11, 2014, the first in an eight-episode season. 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 British and Irish fiction, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Renfield, and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and Dr. Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.


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