Just a couple of days after teasing us last, Showtime has confirmed a start date for Sam Mendes and John Logan's Victorian public domain series, Penny Dreadful. The show will begin on May 11th, and have celebrated the announcement with yet another teaser. Long this time, and featuring actual footage from the series. Josh Hartnett says words in this one, and we get a couple new shots of Timothy Dalton. Still no sign of Billie Piper, but there is plenty of time between now and spring for Showtime to tease us some more.
The series is currently filming in Ireland, where the BBC shot the similarly period Ripper Street, because apparently Ireland has become trapped in an architectural time eddy, which prevents it from progressing into the twentieth century.