The Frankenstein Chronicles imagines a grisly murder spree gripping 1827 London. Children are being abducted, murdered, and sold to someone cutting them apart and reassembling them Frankenstein-style.

“The Frankenstein Chronicles” is a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Set in 1830s London, Bean (“Game of Thrones”) plays John Marlott, a war veteran and river policeman.

Top pick. The Frankenstein Chronicles (Netflix): Since the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a common misconception has plagued the Western canon’s ...

The Frankenstein Chronicles writer/director Benjamin Ross says his interest in the subject grew out of the era’s “legal grey area” in which anatomy schools looking for corpses to use for ...

Canal Plus has acquired ITV’s anticipated series “The Frankenstein Chronicles” with Sean Bean (pictured above) from Endemol Shine International. “The Frankenstein Chronicles,” comprising ...

Just throw anything at me in period dress and I will squeal with glee. A prime example of this is The Frankenstein Chronicles, set in Georgian London. What is already clear is that this is a hit ...

The Frankenstein Chronicles is one of those “Netflix Originals” that originated elsewhere. The first six-episode season aired in 2015 on Britain’s ITV Encore and was originally going to be ...

Unfazed by the public’s disinterest in Frankenstein stuff, ITV’s Encore network in the U.K. produced The Frankenstein Chronicles, a loosely Frankenstein-related show starring Sean Bean as a ...