Oh those scamps! David Lynch and Mark Frost , co-creators of the adored 1980's series Twin Peaks, got the internet all in a flurry last Friday afternoon--well, as much as the internet can be flurried on a Friday afternoon--when they each posted [...]
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We've been telling you about the upcoming Showtime series Penny Dreadful, a reimagining of a time in Victorian England when some of the most famous characters in gothic horror, like Dr. Frankenstein and his work, vampires, and Jack the Ripper, [...]
Read moreWe haven't talked about Showtime's Penny Dreadful in over two months, and in that time we've accumulated a quite a collection of videos for you. First you get a great featurette (which you may have seen recently in a movie [...]
Read moreExcellent news here. Showtime's upcoming Victorian horror series, Penny Dreadful, has been given a premiere date: Sunday, May 11 at 10/9c. Not sure what Penny Dreadful is? Not to worry. We have the first three Production Blogs here to explain [...]
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Showtime's 2014 series Penny Dreadful is accumulating quite a cast. This latest round of hirings includes one of the most famous of The Doctor's companions, Billie Piper. Joining the former Rose Tyler are Helen McCrory (Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter [...]
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We told you back in January about the Showtime series Penny Dreadful, a psychosexual horror series set in Victorian England and featuring some of the iconic horror figures of those times. Happily, three of those roles have now been cast.Harry [...]
Read moreOne of the more excellent announcements to have coincided with the recent Television Critics Association press tour was Showtime's release about its upcoming Victorian horror series Penny Dreadful. Don't let the reference to "Victorian" throw you off; although it's set [...]
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We told you back at the end of August that Stephen King and Steven Spielberg are collaborating on a dramatization of King’s 2009 novel Under the Dome, for cable network Showtime, to be produced by DreamWorks Television. They hadn’t yet [...]
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Expectations started soaring across the land, including here at SciFi Mafia, as soon as word came out that Stephen King and Steven Spielberg are collaborating on a dramatization of King's 2009 novel Under the Dome, for cable network Showtime, to [...]
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And the horror development deals keep on coming, as relentless as a walker in Atlanta. Showtime has now entered the horror dogpile by picking up limited comic series The Damned for a dramatic treatment by feature film writer David Hayter [...]
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Comics and screenplay writer David Goyer is said to be working with Showtime in developing the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning 100 Bullets comic series into a tv series. The comic series was written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso, and was [...]
Read moreWalt Disney Pictures’ Tron: Legacy grossed more than $400 million across the globe this past winter and even though it wasn’t seen as a smashing blockbuster hit, there is sufficient interest in the digitized world that a sequel is in [...]
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