'Penny Dreadful' Will <br />Return to Showtime <br />in a New Time Period 'Penny Dreadful: <br />City of Angels'<br />is set in Los Angeles <br />around the year 1938. Showtime canceled <br />the original series set in <br />Victorian London two years ago. Set to begin <br />production in 2019, John Logan,<br /> via Gizmodo Show-runners say LA in 1938 <br />"was facing some hard questions <br />about its future and its soul." The Penny Dreadful characters <br />will "face powerful questions <br />and arresting moral challenges." John Logan, <br />via Gizmodo
