For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClayPenny Dreadful: City of AngelsSky Atlantic/Now TV, 9pmPenny Dreadful was John Logan’s camp gothic horror that ran for three series between 2014 and 2016 and was based on the gimmick that all of your favourite 19th-century villains, from Frankenstein’s monster to Dorian Gray, were roaming the smoggy streets of Victorian London. This ten-part spin-off, created and written by Logan (whose CV includes the screenplays for the Bond films Spectre and Skyfall), is set about 50 years after its progenitor, specifically Los Angeles in 1938. Suffused in Mexican folklore, the rather convoluted premise is that the human world is at the mercy of a conflict between the venerated figure

Source: The Times June 30, 2020 23:02 UTC