Despite the fact that it has a dedicated fanbase, the Showtime series Penny Dreadful is still plenty underrated in the grand ...

Josh Hartnett might have risen to fame in movies like Pearl Harbor, but one of his best roles comes from television in the ...

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Netflix made waves on Thursday, May 22, when it announced that a beloved star of Penny Dreadful is returning to TV in a "mysterious" new show. Josh Hartnett, 46, who played Ethan Chandler on ...

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Judging by "Penny Dreadful's" first trailer — screened for TV critics for the first time at Thursday's Television Critics Association winter press tour — Showtime's upcoming horror series ...

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which ostensibly took the sensationalistic horror tropes of Victorian “penny dreadful” books and gave them a rapturous prestige TV polish. The series brought new narrative complexity and ...

Simply put, pay TV thrives on cultish devotion — just ... must in any well-diversified portfolio. By that measure, “Penny Dreadful” seems likely to yield dividends for Showtime.

Set during the time of Jack the Ripper, in 1891 London, Penny Dreadful sets out to be something of a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for Victorian-era horror characters. At center of all of ...

Simply put, pay TV thrives on cultish devotion — just ... must in any well-diversified portfolio. By that measure, “Penny Dreadful” seems likely to yield dividends for Showtime.

At its best moments, “Penny Dreadful” shows us why so many television writers find late-19th-century London richly evocative and mysteriously intriguing. At other moments, late-19th-century ...