Showtime revives "Penny Dreadful" in the new series "Penny Dreadful: The City of Angels"

Something awful happens on Showtime, but viewers will not be angry. The network has announced its rebirth "Penny Dreadful"with a new show called" Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. "

The new chapter of "Dreadful" will take place in 1938 in Los Angeles, in a neighborhood animated by a vibrant Mexican-American community. The show will explore the tensions between the characters who worship Santa Muerte and those who are "allies of the devil". The press release promised that "Penny Dreadful: The City of Angels" would include supernatural and realistic elements of the time, as well as "new occult myths and moral dilemmas in an authentic historical context". All characters and scenarios will be new.

The show is in good hands: John Logan, creator, screenwriter and executive producer of the original movie "Penny Dreadful", returns in rebirth in the same roles. Production should begin in 2019.

"Dreadful Penny: The City of Angels will have a social conscience and historical awareness that we have chosen not to explore in the Dreadful Penny stories in London," Logan said in a statement. "We are now going to struggle with specific political, religious, social and racial issues of the historical and real world, and in 1938 Los Angeles faced difficult questions about its future and its soul. Even there is no easy answer As in the world of Penny Dreadful, there are no heroes or villains in this world, but protagonists and antagonists, complicated and conflicting characters who live at the center of moral choice. "

"Penny Dreadful" aired for three seasons from 2014 to 2016. The original series, starring Eva Green, grabbed 13 Emmy nods. The horror thriller explored the monsters and characters of British Gothic fiction of the 19th century.

"Penny Dreadful: The City of Angels" is scheduled to air on Showtime in 2019. Showtime is a division of CBS Corp.