Showtime has a deal with for followers of Penny Dreadful.
The premium cabler has launched the sequence premiere of its new drama Penny Dreadful: Metropolis of Angels early free of charge on-line sampling, on streaming platforms and on demand.
The sequence stars Tony® and Emmy® winner Nathan Lane, Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Kerry Bishé, Rory Kinnear, Adriana Barraza, Michael Gladis, Jessica Garza, and Johnathan Nieves.
Tony and Golden Globe® winner and three-time Oscar® nominee John Logan, the creator, author and govt producer of the Emmy-nominated sequence Penny Dreadful, continues in those self same roles. Michael Aguilar (Kidding) additionally serves as govt producer.
The premiere episode is out there free of charge now on YouTube and SHO.com.
The 10-episode sequence will formally premiere on-air this Sunday, April 26 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime.
The episode can also be out there throughout a number of tv and streaming suppliers’ gadgets, web sites, purposes and authenticated on-line providers and their free on demand channels.
As well as, the season premiere is out there free of charge on the Showtime stand-alone service at www.showtime.com.
Showtime can also be supporting the Farmworkers Covid-19 Pandemic Aid Fund to assist elevate funds for farmworkers and their households, much like the Vega household depicted within the sequence.
California produces over two-thirds of the fruits and nuts and over a 3rd of the greens consumed within the U.S. With this sequence set in Los Angeles, the community is donating in help of those that feed us via their labor and guarantee our meals provide, as these communities could also be among the many hardest hit because of lack of assets.
A non secular descendant of the unique sequence, Penny Dreadful: Metropolis of Angels opens in 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with social and political stress.
When a grisly homicide shocks the town, Detective Tiago Vega (Zovatto) and his companion Lewis Michener (Lane) turn out to be embroiled in an epic story that displays the wealthy historical past of Los Angeles: from the constructing of the town’s first freeways and its deep traditions of Mexican-American folklore, to the damaging espionage actions of the Third Reich and the rise of radio evangelism.
Earlier than lengthy, Tiago and his household are grappling with highly effective forces that threaten to tear them aside.
Penny Dreadful: Metropolis of Angels explores an thrilling mixture of the supernatural and the flamable actuality of the interval. Together with Logan and Aguilar, the sequence is govt produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (1917) and Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Highway), each of Neal Avenue Productions.
Logan’s Desert Wolf Productions produces, and James Bagley serves as co-executive producer.
Final month, Showtime introduced that new clients who join earlier than Might three can make the most of a 30-day free trial for the streaming service, out there on SHOWTIME.com and the SHOWTIME app on all supported gadgets.
SHOWTIME is presently out there to subscribers by way of cable, DBS, and telco suppliers, and as a stand-alone streaming service via Amazon, Apple®, Google, LG Good TVs, Oculus Go, Roku®, Samsung Good TVs and Xbox One.
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