Penny Dreadful on Showtime
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If you have Hulu Plus or Showtime Anytime you can watch the premiere there already. It's like a creature feature of the week. The ending of the premiere is very interesting.
Watch the premiere & that will make total sense.
Hint,"It's alive!!!!!!!"
Watch the premiere & that will make total sense.
‘Penny Dreadful’ to Return for Season 2
Showtime has given the greenlight to a second season of its macabre Victorian drama, “Penny Dreadful.”
The series, which has drawn 4.8 million weekly viewers across all platforms since its debut, features new characters intermingling with literary characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Grey. Created, written and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan, it stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green.
The show will again shoot in Dublin and return in 2015.
“Picking up ‘Penny Dreadful’ was one of the easiest decisions I've made,” said Showtime Networks 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.”
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Showtime has given the greenlight to a second season of its macabre Victorian drama, “Penny Dreadful.”
The series, which has drawn 4.8 million weekly viewers across all platforms since its debut, features new characters intermingling with literary characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Grey. Created, written and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan, it stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green.
The show will again shoot in Dublin and return in 2015.
“Picking up ‘Penny Dreadful’ was one of the easiest decisions I've made,” said Showtime Networks 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.”
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I just started watching Season 1 last night on Showtime Anytime. I've only seen the first episode so far but I'm intrigued enough to keep watching and try to catch up before Season 2 starts. I thought it looked interesting back when it originally aired but I didn't have Showtime at the time.
My new cable package includes HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime so I'm trying to catch up on the best premium series I have missed over the years. I've pretty much kept up with all the current HBO series I'm interested in but I've only seen Dexter and Season 1 of Homeland from Showtime and nothing from Cinemax. Any must see series I've been missing?
My new cable package includes HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime so I'm trying to catch up on the best premium series I have missed over the years. I've pretty much kept up with all the current HBO series I'm interested in but I've only seen Dexter and Season 1 of Homeland from Showtime and nothing from Cinemax. Any must see series I've been missing?
Cinemax has 2 excellent series. Strikeback and Banshee, well worth the binge watching sessions!!
Agree on Strikeback and Banshee. Must binge watch.
Another to check out on Showtime is Ray Donovan. Kinda Sopranos like.
Penny Dreadful surprised me. I only tried it to check out Eva Green but I was hooked after the first episode.
Another to check out on Showtime is Ray Donovan. Kinda Sopranos like.
Penny Dreadful surprised me. I only tried it to check out Eva Green but I was hooked after the first episode.
Thanks for the suggestions. The only problem I'm seeing is that Max Go doesn't seem to be available on any of the streaming devices I have hooked to my main TV and surround sound. The Xbox One, PS4, Tivo, and Apple TV are all missing this one. It's kind of strange considering how widely available HBO Go is when they are owned by the same company. I got the most recent Season of Banshee recorded from a marathon they ran but I guess I'll have to use my iPad and Airplay to see the rest of the Cinemax stuff.
Penny Dreadful comes back ,just in time for me to get more freebies and credits on my DISH bill. Three months free should be enough to get me through the season.
Showtime has some great original programming. I cannot remember the last time I actually watched a movie on Showtime that wasn’t a rerun of something I’ve seen a thousand times. The CBS-Viacom split really gutted their potential movie library for first runs. Now Epix has all of the good movies Showtime would have had.
I watch six out of the ten Showtime original dramas/comedies currently in production.
Shameless – One of the funniest, most well thought out shows on TV about a family that doesn’t have much but will do anything for (and to) each other and in order to survive. The Gallagher’s put the FUN in dysfunctional. The first three seasons were awesome, season four was not that great but a nice dose of reality for some of the characters, but everything rebounded nicely in season five.
Penny Dreadful – A very nice and creepy series. The first season was exactly what I was expecting, I’m anxiously anticipating the second season in just under a month.
Ray Donovan – An interesting look at the behind the scenes of the Hollywood lifestyle through the eyes of a fixer. Sometimes the show focuses too much on Ray’s personal life, IMO, but the series as a whole is coming together pretty nicely. I love Jon Voight’s character.
Homeland – The first season was edge of your seat suspense. Especially the later episodes and lots of twists and turns to keep you guessing. The second season was pretty good, third and fourth seasons were lackluster, hopefully season five is better.
The Affair – I thought it was going to be a chick show, and it kinda is, but it’s no Lifetime series. It gets a little too soap-operaish at some points, but it tells an interesting story from the two main characters unique points of view and there’s a nice mystery to go along with it. This show demonstrates very clearly how the recollections of the same events can differ very greatly, especially the last few episodes of the season. More so the last episode. I love the Long Island scenery and the scenery that is Ruth Wilson.
House of Lies – This series has a little bit of everything. It demonstrates how you have to be a shark in this day and age, and how you have to be ruthless to be successful. Cheadle’s character is very cunning and charismatic, but somethings things blow up in his face. The freeze frame techniques used more often earlier in the earlier seasons were annoying, but they seem to have backed down from them.
And then there’s the sports programming. Inside The NFL with the NFL Films production staff provides the best look into the previous week’s action you could imagine. Jim Rome On Showtime. While I think the guy is a pompous ass he gives great interviews, love the non-serious segments like 10 Questions and The Sklar Brothers. Rome can keep his opinions on other issues to himself. And 60 Minutes Sports offers a great take on sports that don’t get much airtime and stories that involve big sports that aren’t mentioned in any sort of depth on ESPN or other mainstream sports talk. It’s a nice alternative to Real Sports on HBO. Like Jim Rome, Bryant Gumble needs to keep his personal opinions out of his show, and I can’t believe I’m saying this about a CBS entity, 60 Minutes Sports does not have anywhere near the bias that Real Sports does.
Past shows on Showtime that I enjoyed where Californication (the last season was a let down), short lived series’ Dead Like Me and Sleeper Cell and I really, really miss Inside NASCAR.
Cinemax never really had much in the way of original programming, outside of softcore porn. The Hunted was a BBC series that lasted one season that aired on Cinemax in the US. I caught the first 2 or 3 episodes, and like most programming from the BBC, I found it boring and dry and gave up on it. I tried getting into Strike Back but couldn’t. Banshee however, I got into that right away. Just when I thought the first season couldn’t get any better, the second season out did it. And the third season that just wrapped up was better yet. A LOT of action, and a great story to go along with it. Plus I like shows and movies that take place in rural Smalltown, USA. And Lili Simmons is the definition of sexy. I can’t stand the concept of ‘binge watching’ and have only done it once, but I hear The Knick is a pretty good show. I plan on watching one episode from Max On Demand every Friday, a few months prior to the beginning of season two.
They have the first episode for season 2 on the Showtime Anytime,I've already watched it on my Roku. Directv's Audience Channel will also have an advanced showing this Monday Night(tonight). Actually the first episode was pretty good.
