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Exclusive: UK indie feature Worry Time, written by and starring Emma Paetz (Pennyworth) and produced by and co-starring Ben Aldridge (Fleabag) has wrapped shoot in London.

The micro-budget absurdist feminist thriller is a co-production between Penny4 and Paetz’s company Thaddeus. Producers are Cambria Bailey-Jones, Heloise Lowenthal, Emma Paetz and Aldridge who is making his producing debut.

The film marks the filmmaking debut of British theatre director Tom Brennan (The Last of the Pelican Daughters). The team is submitting the movie for 2025 festivals.

The official synopsis reads: “Something terrible has happened to Annette’s (Paetz) friend, Vivian, and everyone’s decided to move on from it. Everyone except Annette. She will not ‘process’. She will not forgive. She’s going to make an allegorical sci-fi film – a reflection on women’s accommodation of male dominance – whether or not Vivian wants her to. The film deals with the grief of a friendship faded,...

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Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler will not continue at HBO Max. Pennyworth was a Batman prequel series delving into the past of esteemed Bat Family member Alfred Pennyworth. The series ran for three seasons, starting at Epix before jumping over to HBO Max for season 3. There, the drama series created by Gotham's Bruno Heller was joined by fellow DC shows Titans and Doom Patrol, both of which were also canceled just a few days before Pennyworth's fate was announced.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that HBO Max has decided not to move forward with Pennyworth season 4. The series starred Jack Bannon as a young Alfred Pennyworth, who would go on to meet iconic DC characters like Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) and Martha Kane (Emma Paetz). Pennyworth was retitled as Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler for its third and final season, likely in a move to garner more interest in the series,...

Network: Epix, HBO Max

Episodes: 30 (hour).

Seasons: Three.

TV show dates: July 28, 2019 — November 24, 2022.

Series status: Cancelled.

Performers include: Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Ian Puleston-Davies, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Polly Walker, Emma Paetz, Ramon Tikaram, Harriet Slater, Edward Hogg, Jessye Romeo, James Purefoy, and Simon Manyonda.

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From executive producers Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, the Pennyworth TV show is a Batman prequel, based on the DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The series follows Bruce Wayne's eventual butler Alfred Pennyworth (Bannon), but exists in another universe than the Gotham series.

The story unfolds in 1960s London, where former British Sas soldier Pennyworth founds...

Another DC Universe series has been taken out. Last week, it was revealed that Doom Patrol and Titans had both been cancelled by HBO Max. Now, the Pennyworth series has also been cancelled and won't be back for a fourth season.

A psychological thriller series, the Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler TV show is based on Batman and other DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The drama stars Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Emma Paetz, Paloma Faith, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Ramon Tikaram, Harriet Slater, and Simon Manyonda. The story unfolds in 1960s London and follows former British Sas soldier Alfred Pennyworth who works for American billionaire Thomas Wayne (Aldridge), the future father of Bruce "Batman" Wayne. Season three of begins after a five-year time jump: the civil war is over, and a cultural revolution...

HBO Max announced today that they have cancelled Pennyworth, the live-action drama series which followed the adventures of a younger version of Alfred Pennyworth, the man who would become Batman’s butler.

“While HBO Max is not moving forward with another season of Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler, we are very thankful to creator Bruno Heller and executive producers Matthew Patnick, Danny Cannon and John Stephens, along with Warner Bros. Television, for their brilliant, unique, gripping depiction of the origin of Alfred Pennyworth, one of the most iconic characters in the Batman world,” an HBO Max spokesperson said in a statement. “An incredible blend of action, drama and humor, for three seasons, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler has taken fans on a mind-bending ride into Alfred’s eccentric world and the beginnings of cutting-edge super heroes and super villains.” Pennyworth isn’t the only DC series on HBO...

Alfred Pennyworth’s origin story has been cut short.

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler has been cancelled at HBO Max, Deadline reports. The news comes nearly three months after the release of its Season 3 finale.

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With DC Studios announcing its slate of new movies and series this week, it was inevitable bad news was to follow for Pennyworth.

Deadline broke the sad news on Wednesday that the Batman prequel is over after three seasons.

HBO Max released a statement about the decision.

"While HBO Max is not moving forward with another season of Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler, we are very thankful to creator Bruno Heller and executive producers Matthew Patnick, Danny Cannon and John Stephens, along with Warner Bros. Television, for their brilliant, unique, gripping depiction of the origin of Alfred Pennyworth, one of the most iconic characters in the Batman world," a spokesperson for HBO Max said in a statement.

"An incredible blend of action, drama and humor, for three seasons, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler has taken fans on a mind-bending ride into Alfred's eccentric world and the beginnings of...

“Pennyworth” has been canceled at HBO Max after three seasons, Variety has learned.

The third season, officially titled “Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler,” was the first season of the show to originate on HBO Max. The series originally debuted on Epix in 2019, with Season 2 airing on that channel in two chunks in 2020 and 2021. Season 3 launched on HBO Max in October 2022.

“While HBO Max is not moving forward with another season of ‘Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler,’ we are very thankful to creator Bruno Heller and executive producers Matthew Patnick, Danny Cannon and John Stephens, along with Warner Bros. Television, for their brilliant, unique, gripping depiction of the origin of Alfred Pennyworth, one of the most iconic characters in the Batman world,” an HBO Max spokesperson said in a statement. “An incredible blend of action, drama and humor, for three seasons, ‘Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler’ has taken...

Alfred Pennyworth is ending his origin story.

HBO Max has decided against a fourth season of Pennyworth, otherwise known as Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler.

The streamer picked up the show for its third season, after two seasons aired on Epix. The DC origin series premiered its 10-episode third season on the streamer in October, and it ran through end of November.

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It comes after new DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran unveiled their plan for the Warner Bros. Discovery comic book studio division and Pennyworth was absent.

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Pennyworth concluded its shocking third season on HBO Max last week, and we're still trying to process the ending.

Just when it seemed like all of the focal characters had found some semblance of happiness, a bomb seemingly decimated London, setting the stage for a very different fourth season.

TV Fanatic got the chance to chat with Emma Paetz, who plays Martha Wayne on the Batman prequel series.

Check out the interview below.

It's been a rough season for Martha and Thomas, but they ended things on a positive note. Did you expect that to happen?

I never quite know where the scripts are going. I'm really bad at predicting, but yeah, I agree with you that they do end, I think, kind of stronger and more solid in their relationship than we've sort of ever seen them be actually out of like a huge period of tension.

We saw...

Warning: Spoilers for Pennyworth season 3Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler season 3 just concluded its HBO Max run this week, leaving viewers in a chaotic yet festive mood. The infamous future butler Alfred (Jack Bannon) tied the knot with his on-and-off girlfriend Sandra in between saving PWEs (People With Enhancements) from experimentation and the entirety of London from a drug-induced mental health crisis, although a sudden airstrike may render the previous festivities null. Meanwhile, Martha (Emma Paetz) and Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) manage to patch up their rocky marriage after a season of lies and half-truths, starting over as a family.

Pennyworth season 3 underwent several changes when it moved to HBO Max, including both a name change and a five-year time jump. The latter is the most important, given that it gave Martha and Thomas a daughter to take care of and added tension to the dangerous situations they often find themselves in.

“Pennyworth” isn’t exactly the same show in Season 3 that it was during the opening two years of its run on the soon-to-be-rebranded Epix. What began as a well-executed thought experiment — “What if Batman’s kindly caretaker was a Bond-style government contractor when he was in his twenties?” — has gradually morphed into something different. The opening credits theme has sanded off a bit of its orchestral flair, the show now has the unwieldy subtitle “The Origin of Batman’s Butler,” and the London surrounding its main character is absorbing more and more “Mad Men” pastels by the episode.

Yet, with all those changes, “Pennyworth” is the rare bright spot amid a litany of baffling-to-fatal decisions for HBO Max in 2022 (a list that got longer and graver just in the last few days). The streaming service that at its debut seemed like a home for some its namesake’s spirit of...

Pennyworth Silver Birch Trailer — Epix‘s Pennyworth: Season 3, Episode 4: Silver Birch TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew Pennyworth stars Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Emma Paetz, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Paloma Faith, Harriet Slater, and Simon Manyonda. Cast and crew Which actor is playing what character in Pennyworth: “Jack Bannon (Alfred Pennyworth), Ben [...]

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Did you know that Batman's famous and devout Butler, Alfred Pennyworth, has his own spy show on HBO Max (after airing on Epix) from the creators of "Gotham"? And it's on season 3? Maybe the recent extended retitling of "Pennyworth" to "Pennyworth: The Origins of Batman's Butler" could alert you to that.

In 1960s London with alternative sameish-but-different history, former British Sas soldier, Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon) sought to found his own security company. He later ends up working for young billionaire Thomas Wayne. In season 2, Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) marries Martha Kane (Emma Paetz) and she gives birth to their daughter (in a curveball for Batman fans who were expecting to see Bruce Wayne sooner). Last season, a civil war ended, and season 3 is making a five-year time jump into the '70s.

/Film writer Caroline Cao sat with executive producers and co-showrunners Bruno Heller and John Stephens, Jack Bannon,...

Bruno Heller has a funny way — quite literally — of describing the move of Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler from Epix to HBO Max.

First, imagine you’re in a grocery store and on the hunt for, ahem, something tasty to enjoy. “Years ago, people had very few choices. Now it’s much more like a supermarket,” explains Heller, who created the DC drama that stars Jack Bannon in the title role. “I don’t mean to be crass about this, but you’re on a shelf and where you are on the shelf becomes very important in a way that it wasn’t before. So platforms matter. We are just very excited to be in the center aisle, in the middle of shelf, next to the cornflakes instead of up there with the maple honey granola with soy granules in it. All of those cereals have an audience,...

Batman’s butler is coming to HBO Max.

The streamer released the first trailer for Season 3 of “Pennyworth: The Origins of Batman’s Butler” on Wednesday, showcasing the newest chapter in Alfred Pennyworth’s story. The new season will premiere on Thursday, Oct. 6 with three episodes followed by one episode weekly through Nov. 24.

The DC origin series Jack Bannon as the titular butler, who is also a former British Sas soldier. He forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) and his wife Martha (Emma Paetz) before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents. Season three of the thriller begins after a five-year time jump. Now, the civil war is over and a revolution has changed the world, ushering in a new age of super heroes and supervillains.

The cast for the series includes Bannon, Aldridge, Paetz, Paloma Faith, Ryan Fletcher,...

The name may be changed, but the cool remains the same! Having survived not just a move from Epix to HBO Max but also a meme-inspiring title tweak from simply Pennyworth to Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler, it’s time for us to get back to acknowledging that we have been champing at the bit for Season 3, whatever it’s called or wherever it airs. Because truth be told, this is one DC Comics property that doesn’t need capes to kick ass. And now, after so much time waiting, we have our first look at the key art and trailer for the new season! Set in an alternate universe where history and Bat-cannon collide, the series follows Alfred Pennyworth (the fabulous Jack Bannon), a former British Sas soldier, who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge...

Updated, 11 Am: HBO Max has released the official trailer for Season 3 of Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler, along with the key art (see below). The third season premieres October 6 on the streaming platform following its first two seasons on Epix. You can watch the original teaser trailer below.

Previous, August 10: Pennyworth wants to make sure everyone knows what it’s really about. In a not-so-subtle move, HBO Max announced the series will now be titled Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler for its upcoming third season on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform.

The show aired its first two seasons on Epix before it was announced last year that it would move to sibling streamer HBO Max for its third season.

The streamer also unveiled a first-look teaser trailer for Season 3 (you can watch it above), along with an October release, a specific date Tba.

Jack Bannon...

Pennyworth Season 3 Trailer — HBO Max‘s Pennyworth: Season 3 teaser trailer has been released. The Pennyworth: Season 3 trailer stars Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Emma Paetz, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Paloma Faith, Harriet Slater, and Simon Manyonda. Cast and crew Which actor is playing what character in Pennyworth: “Jack Bannon (Alfred Pennyworth), Ben [...]

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Season three of the hit DC series, Pennyworth: The Origin Of Batman’S Butler, from Warner Bros. Television, debuts this October on HBO Max as a Max Original. The DC origin series Pennyworth: The Origin Of Batman’S Butler follows Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), a former British Sas soldier, who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) and his wife Martha (Emma Paetz), before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents. Season three of the psychological thriller begins after a five-year time jump: the civil war is over, and a cultural revolution has changed the world for better or worse – ushering in a new age of Super Heroes and Supervillains.

The first two seasons of Pennyworth are currently available on HBO Max.

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Pennyworth finally makes the jump from Epix to HBO Max in the fall.

HBO Max on Wednesday confirmed the series will finally return in October.

With the move, the streamer has also changed the title.

Pennyworth: The Origins of Batman is the name.

Make of that what you will, but it seems like the streaming service is concerned the typical viewer won't know that the show is a Batman prequel.

The third season follows "Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), a former British Sas soldier, who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) and his wife Martha (Emma Paetz), before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents."

"Season three of the psychological thriller begins after a five-year time jump: the civil war is over, and a cultural revolution has changed the world for better or worse – ushering in a new age of Super Heroes and Supervillains,...

Season 3 of Pennyworth — which with its move from Epix to HBO Max has apparently been rechristened Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler (#OnTheNose) — is set for an October release, the teaser trailer above reveals.

No details on the precise premiere date or rollout plan for the 10 new episodes have yet been detailed.

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Pennyworth is coming back for a third season!

HBO Max announced over the weekend that the series would be moving from Epix to its streaming service with a pickup for Season 3.

It will debut in 2022 as a Max Original. The first two seasons will also be available on the platform in early 2022.

The DC origin series Pennyworthj follows Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), a former British Sas soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) before he becomes Bruce Wayne's father.

Season three of the psychological thriller also stars Emma Paetz, Paloma Faith, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Ramon Tikaram, Harriet Slater and Simon Manyonda.

Season three begins after a five-year time jump: the civil war is over, and a cultural revolution has changed the world for better or worse - ushering in a new age of Super Heroes and Supervillains.

HBO Max has closed a deal to bring DC origin series Pennyworth to its platform for a third season.

The series, which aired for two seasons on Epix, has been renewed for a third season and will make the move to the WarnerMedia digital platform in 2022.

It comes after Deadline revealed that Pennyworth producer Warner Bros. TV was in talks to bring the show over to its sibling streamer. The deal also includes the first two seasons of the Batman butler prequel launching on the service early next year.

Deadline understands that Epix will get a second window, per the deal.

The move, announced at the DC Fandome event, is not a huge as the MGM-owned cable network has been trimming its slate of scripted originals and the show premiered before the studio launched its own streaming service. It will join other DC titles such as Titans, Doom Patrol and Peacemaker on HBO Max.

“Pennyworth,” the DC Comics drama revolving around the early years of Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred, is moving to HBO Max for its third season.

The series produced by Warner Bros. Television aired for its first two seasons on Epix, the pay cabler owned by MGM. But now that HBO Max is the center of the WarnerMedia universe, it had long been expected that “Pennyworth” would jump to the in-house platform for Season 3. HBO Max has ordered 10 episodes.

The first two seasons of “Pennyworth” will become available on HBO Max early next year. There’s no word on a Season 3 premiere date beyond next year.

The series stars Jack Bannon as Alfred Pennyworth, a former special forces soldier in the British military who initially goes to work for Bruce Wayne’s father, Thomas Wayne, in 1960s London.

As part of Saturday’s live-streamed “DC FanDome” promotional event, Warner Bros. TV...

Batman’s future butler has found a new home: The pre-prequel series Pennyworth has been renewed for Season 3, TVLine has learned, but will also move from Epix to HBO Max for the new season, which is set to debut next year.

The announcement was made as part of the DC FanDome virtual event on Saturday. The first two seasons of Pennyworth will also be available to stream on HBO Max early next year.

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It’s pretty impressive that Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, who twisted Gotham into a funhouse mirror image of the comic book source material, got invited to do it a second time with their Epix series Pennyworth, purportedly the origins of Alfred. But which Alfred? And for which version of Batman?

Pennyworth: The Complete Second Season, with Covid-19 interruptions, finally arrived at the end of 2020 and is now available on a two-disc Blu-ray set from Warner Archive. You can decide for yourself if the series needed its connections to the Batman mythos, needed to exist at all or is entertaining. As with Gotham, the chaotic and uneven storytelling continues here in this weird, alternate reality of the world.

While it looks like the 1960s, the politics of England is decided more fascistic, and lots of secret organizations are having a secret war with the kingdom’s fate at stake.

Ahead of Pennyworth‘s Xl midseason finale, TVLine has an exclusive look at the back half of Season 2 — including the date on which it will arrive.

Epix’s “Batman prequel” of sorts serves up a double-episode argy-bargy this Sunday starting at 9/8c. In “The Belt and the Welt,” Alfred, Bazza and Daveboy (played by Jack Bannon, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett and Ryan Fletcher) set out to find out who had the nerve to steal from them, while Crowley (Jonjo O’Neill) enacts his plan — with unintended results. That’s followed by “the Hunted Fox,” in which Alfie, still haunted by tragedy, agrees...

As Pennyworth opened Season 2, the good news was that Thomas Wayne survived being shot at the close of Season 1. But he may be wishing differently given lady friend Martha Kane’s reaction to the news that during his return Stateside, he got engaged.

That rockblock arrived on top of the couple’s argument about Thomas’ CIA staying neutral when it comes to the civil war led by Lord Harwood’s neo-fascist Raven Union. So all told, tough times ahead for those who one day (soon) shall conceive a future Batman.

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Pennyworth is based on Batman and other DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The drama stars Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Emma Paetz, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Polly Walker, Jason Flemyng, Dorothy Atkinson, Paloma Faith, James Purefoy, Edward Hogg, Jessye Romeo, Ramon Tikaram, Harriet Slater, Simon Manyonda, and Jessica de Gouw. The story unfolds in 1960s London and...

Will Alfred be making a big move in the second season of the Pennyworth TV show on Epix? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Pennyworth is cancelled or renewed for season three. Epix and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the second season episodes of Pennyworth here.

An Epix action-adventure series, Pennyworth is based on Batman and other DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The drama stars Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Emma Paetz, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Polly Walker, Jason Flemyng, Dorothy Atkinson, Paloma Faith, James Purefoy, Edward Hogg, Jessye Romeo, Ramon Tikaram, Harriet Slater, Simon Manyonda, and Jessica de Gouw. The story unfolds in 1960s...

Alfred Pennyworth has his sights set on America — but first, he and his mates will have to navigate all sorts of civil strife in England, while juggling the very odd job to pay for their passage.

When last we tuned in, the titular former British Sas soldier (played by Jack Bannon) had to gun down his own dad, Arthur — a secret member of the government-overthrowing Raven Society — though the tragic trigger-pulling proved fruitless in foiling a mad bomber plot targeting British bigwigs.

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Season 2 of Pennyworth is supposed to plant the biggest seed yet, when it comes to the origin of he who will one day become Batman. But from the looks of this exclusive sneak peek, almost-lovebirds Thomas Wayne and Martha Kane have at least one major obstacle to first overcome.

During the Epix drama’s DC FanDome panel this fall, executive producer Danny Cannon said that Season 2’s “big Easter egg” would be that “Martha gets pregnant” with the wee lad to be named Bruce. And while Martha and Thomas (played by Emma Paetz and Ben Aldridge) lock horns a bit...

Pennyworth Season 2 Trailer, Premiere Date, and New Characters Revealed — Epix‘s Pennyworth: Season 2 TV show trailer, the official premiere date, and a listing of notable new characters have been released. Pennyworth: Season 2 stars Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Paloma Faith, [...]

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Pennyworth is getting ready for its return to Epix. The series now has its premiere date set for season two -- December 13th. A new poster and trailer have also been released. Fans will see some new characters this season, including Lucius Fox. The live-action series is focused on Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's trusted butler, and shows his early days with the Wayne family.

Jack Bannon stars as Alfred, and he is joined by Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Jessica Ellerby, and Polly Walker.

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Pennyworth Season 2 is coming soon to Epix, continuing to fulfill the show’s touted remit as a prequel to the Batman mythos, notably with Alfred’s eventual arrival in Gotham City.

Having debuted on July 28, 2019, Pennyworth is the product of creator/executive producer/writer Bruno Heller and executive producer/director Danny Cannon (CSI franchise), and served as a quick reunion of key personnel from another Batman prequel series, Fox’s Gotham, which had just ended its five-season run that April. However, any associations end there, since Pennyworth is set in London in the 1960s, therefore—after doing some quick math—eliminating the notion of any continuity connection with the contemporary-set Gotham. Indeed, Pennyworth turned out to be a colorful crime series with swinging ‘60s aesthetics and a slightly over-the-top charm that’s not bound by its nevertheless-looming pre-Batman status.

The first teaser trailer for Pennyworth’s second season is here,...

“Pennyworth” may have set in motion the birth of baby Bruce Wayne — but not before his dad gets engaged to a woman that’s not Bruce’s mother.

Ben Aldridge, who plays a young Thomas Wayne in Epix’s “Batman” prequel series, just dropped a major hint about the state of his and Martha Kane’s (Emma Paetz) relationship at the beginning of Season 2 when it premieres this December… and it’s certainly not what we expected.

“I think I can say this — he comes back into Episode 1 engaged to someone else, so that’s a massive curveball,” Aldridge revealed during a New York Comic-Con virtual panel on Sunday. “It’s kind of a curveball for both of them. He didn’t expect that either. That’s where they start off, and then it all unfolds from there.”

That said, there’s still going to be “a lot of tension...

In Season two of the Epix TV series "Pennyworth", based on the early adventures of 'Batman' butler 'Alfred Pennyworth' (Jack Bannon), who works for billionaire 'Thomas Wayne' (Ben Aldridge) in 1960's London, UK, it will be revealed that 'Martha Kane' (Emma Paetz), mother of the future 'Batman'  is pregnant: 

Season Two cast also includes Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson and Polly Walker, Paloma Faith. Jason Flemyng, James Purefoy, Edward Hogg, Jessye Romeo, Ramon Tikaram and Harriet Slater. 

Based on characters created for DC by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, Pennyworth was developed by Bruno Heller, who executive produces with Danny Cannon and Matthew Patnick. 

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Pennyworth now has its premiere date set for season two. Danny John Cannon, an executive producer and a director on the series, revealed the premiere date on his Instagram account -- December 2, 2020. *Update below.

As revealed last month, the second season will bring a big change to the lives of Thomas and Martha Wayne. In addition, Lucius Fox, another character from Batman comics, will be joining the series in season two.

Pennyworth focuses on the caped crusader's future butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon). Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Jessica Ellerby, and Polly Walker also star in this Batman prequel series.

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Pennyworth is getting ready for its season two, and fans were given some intel on what is coming next on the Epix series at DC Fan Dome over the weekend. Fans will see the entry of a big name in the DC universe. Martha Kane will find out she is pregnant, and that child will be Bruce Wayne, the future Batman. It was previously revealed that Lucius Fox, another character from Batman comics, would be joining the series in season two.

The series' cast includes Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Jessica Ellerby, and Polly Walker.

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On DC Fandome part two Saturday, "Pennyworth" executive producer Bruno Heller announced Martha Kane (Emma Paetz) has a bun in the oven in the second season. Bruce and Martha are not married yet, so it'll be interesting to see if the baby is Bruce Wayne and whether there's a shotgun wedding. The DC character Lucius Fox will also be entering the picture in the sophomore outing. Read the official announcement.

DC FanDome: Explore the Multiverse welcomed the producers and cast of the DC drama series Pennyworth and they just dropped some huge news for the upcoming season two: Martha Kane is pregnant!

The panel featured cast members Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Emma Paetz, and executive producers Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon as they looked back fondly at the first season and talked about what to expect for the sophomore season. During the panel, Heller dropped the huge news that Martha (Paetz) is pregnant — with the future Bruce Wayne aka Batman, we are assuming. This news comes after it was revealed at DC FanDome: Hall of Heroes that the DC character Lucius Fox would be joining season two.

Set in 1960s London, the Epix series is an origin story about Batman’s butler, the titular Alfred Pennyworth (Bannon) where he works for Martha and Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge). During...

“Pennyworth” is putting a Bat in the oven.

Epix’s Batman prequel has revealed that in its second season, Martha Kane will be pregnant with Thomas Wayne’s child. Any DC Comics fan will immediately know just who that child grows up to become.

The announcement was made Saturday during the second part of DC FanDome.

As previously revealed, Lucius Fox will be appearing in the second season. Fox most memorably portrayed by Morgan Freeman in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” Trilogy (he was also played by Chris Chalk in Fox’s “Gotham”). Also joining the show for season two will be James Purefoy, Edward Hogg, Jessye Romeo, Ramon Tikaram and Harriet Slater.

“Pennyworth” centers on a young Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), long before he was the Wayne family’s butler, and takes place in the 1960s. It deals with his exploits with the elder Wayne (Ben Aldridge), who in...

Pennyworth will take a big (and kinda critical) step toward spawning Batman’s very beginnings, it was revealed during the Epix drama’s DC FanDome panel streaming Saturday.

Delivering the “big Easter egg” for Season 2, executive producer Danny Cannon sprung on cast members Ben Aldridge and Emma Paetz, who play Thomas Wayne and Martha Kane, the news that “Martha gets pregnant” with the baby who will one day don a cape and cowl to fight crime as a vigilante.

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We’re very excited for next Saturday’s DC Fandome. Honestly, the DC Entertainment-run virtual event looks way more impressive that Comic Con at Home, boasting 24 hours of content for fans of the page and screen stories of DC Comics to nerd out over. DC just released the complete schedule for the event and, while there’s plenty of big screen stuff to look out for, from Wonder Woman 1984 to The Batman, there’s also some pretty exciting TV content on the docket. Here’s the complete DC TV schedule, with times (in Et) and panel descriptions.

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Speed and star-power: Those are the two clear goals for the DC Fandome virtual event on Aug. 22, which released its full schedule Friday.

Over 100 hours of content stretching across the film, TV and comic book properties from DC Entertainment will unfold over a 24-hour period on the Saturday event, including panels featuring the filmmakers and casts of “The Batman,” “Wonder Woman 1984,” “The Suicide Squad” and the Snyder Cut of “Justice League,” and the casts of TV series including “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” “Batwoman,” “Black Lightning” and “The Flash.”

Most of those panels, however, will run just 15 to 30 minutes in length. The panel for the upcoming feature film version of “The Flash,” with filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti, star Ezra Miller, and screenwriter Christina Hodson, will clock in at a speedy 10 minutes. (The briefness of that panel could also be due to unresolved questions surrounding a video of Miller appearing...

The television programming at DC FanDome, Warner Bros.’ virtual Comic-Con alternative, will kick off with back-to-back panels for “The Flash,” “Black Lighting” and “Pennyworth,” the company revealed Friday with the release of the full schedule of events.

Announced in June, the inaugural installment of WB’s online fan festival — which runs for 24 straight hours starting at 10:00 Am Pacific on Saturday Aug. 22. — celebrates all of the upcoming film, television, comics and other projects based on the iconic publisher’s characters and concepts.

Along with The CW’s “The Flash” and “Black Lightning,” and Epix’s “Pennyworth,” the day’s TV-centric panels also include offerings from fellow CW shows “Legends of Tomorrow,” “Superman &Lois,” “Stargirl” and “Batwoman,” plus the DC Universe series “Titans,” Netflix’s “Lucifer” and more.

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Production has begun on Season 2 of Epix’s “Pennyworth” series, and the origin story for Batman’s butler Alfred has added five new series regulars to its cast.

The new cast members are James Purefoy, Edward Hogg, Jessye Romeo, and Harriet Slater (“Faunutland” and the Lost Magic”). Ramon Tikaram returns from season one in a more regular role.

The 10-episode season has been shooting since January at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the U.K., where it shot Season 1. Season 2 is expected to premiere this summer.

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The hourlong drama series follows Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), “a former British Sas soldier in his 20s who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge), who has not yet become Bruce Wayne’s father,...