Showtime Bosses Address "Penny Dreadful's" Abrupt Ending

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Showtime Bosses Talk Abrupt "Penny Dreadful" Finish
by Matt Webb Mitovich
August 11, 2016


Showtime Networks CEO David Nevins and programming president Gary Levine on Thursday revisited the abrupt ending of the buzzy horror drama "Penny Dreadful", whose Season 3 finale was announced as a series finale moments after it aired.

“We could have announced it before the final season, and we decided not to,” Nevins admitted. As he noted, series creator John Logan “didn’t want to cast a pall” on the show’s final run, nor tip his hand that Eva Green’s Vanessa Ives would die.





“In John’s mind it was always three seasons and out,” Nevins added. “From early on, we were trying to keep it open for possibility of more, but it became clear that trying to continue the show past the life of Vanessa Ives would be a lesserment. And John didn’t really want to continue beyond that character.”

“The death of Vanessa Ives was plotted,” Levine said, “and in John’s mind he slowly came around to the idea… that for him there wasn’t a show beyond that.”

With neither star Green nor Logan sticking around, “We thought the series would lose its authenticity.”

http://tvline.com/2016/08/11/penny-d...elled-renewed/