Penny Dreadful Season 2 Spoilers: Showtime announced that it has renewed Penny Dreadful for a second season Four episodes into Penny Dreadful's season one run, it is already pulling "Dexter" sized viewership and critical notice.

Penny Dreadful is only halfway through their first season. Showtime renewed "Penny Dreadful" for a second season of 10 episodes that will premiere next year. Penny Dreadful stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green as the leaders of a Victorian era cabal that is going after Dracula, and other monsters.

Penny Dreadful was created by screenwriter-playwright John Logan, who wrote all eight of the first season episodes. Logan intends to write the teleplays for all of season two as well. In between writing the next two James Bond movies and a musical he's writing with Sting called "The Last Ship," which heads to Broadway this fall. Production for the second season will start later this year in Dublin.

Showtime president David Nevins told EW "The goal here was to see if we could do a genre show a horror show but with all the sophistication and depth of a Showtime show and John Logan ended up being the person to do it," Showtime president David Nevins tells EW. "It's been well reviewed by mainstream critics, it's giving us a Comic-Con-appeal show. It's a whole new world as imagined by Logan."

Nevins says the rest of the first season explore the characters and history of their relationships. He told EW "It just gets richer deeper and more complicated with the characters. We're only four episodes in and you're only just getting a taste of what's to come."

Showtime entertainment president David Nevins told Variety "We were trying to do something a little different for Showtime and find a show that would re-establish us with passionate genre fans in the post-'Dexter' era. It feels like we're hitting on both levels with a show that has deep, rich, complicated characters and interesting psychology and the genre component. The world of the show is just getting deeper and richer. John Logan has incredible ideas that are just starting to be exposed. I can't wait to see how it evolves in season two."

Penny Dreadful Season 2 will air next year.