The shooting of the hit series, Penny Dreadful, at Ardmore Studios, earned the company that operates the studios profits of €1.34m last year.

The multi-award-winning production company behind the Love/ Hate phenomenon, Octagon Films was sitting on accumulated profits of €242,365 at the end of last year.

Even with Penny Dreadful back and in the golden age of television, horror’s reign of terror remains firmly on the big screen writes Ed Power