Showtime Renews "Penny Dreadful" for Second Season
Jun 4, 2014
by Sadie Gennis


Showtime has ordered a second season of "Penny Dreadful", the network announced Wednesday. The drama will return with ten episodes in 2015.

"Penny Dreadful's" first season was the most-watched series on Showtime On Demand and Showtime Anytime, according to the network.



"Picking up Penny Dreadful was one of the easiest decisions I've made," said Showtime president David Nevins.

"The series has had worldwide impact, drawing big, passionate audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, and more than any other show on our network has hit the bullseye with viewers who want to watch television in all the new ways that are available. John Logan has deftly created an epic series that has drawn raves from a wide-range of audiences from quality drama lovers to critics, to hardcore genre fans."



"Penny Dreadful" stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green and Billie Piper as unique interpretations of famous literary characters from the horror genre.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Showtime-Renews-Penny-Dreadful-Season2-1082525.aspx

"Penny Dreadful" Renewed for Season 3 by Showtime
by Patrick Hines
June 16, 2015


Showtime has renewed "Penny Dreadful" for a third season, giving the John Logan-created series a nine-episode order to air in 2016. It again will shoot in Dublin. The news comes ahead of the series’ Season 2 finale July 5.

The Victorian Gothic series got off to a slow start when it premiered Season 2 on May 3, drawing 575,000 total viewers to its 10 PM showing. That was the lowest viewership number yet for the series, down 34% from its Season 1 debut and 32% from the 856,000 who watched the Season 1 finale last June 29.

http://deadline.com/2015/06/penny-dreadful-renewed-season-3-1201445024/