Showtime Shuts Down Rumors of ‘Dexter’ Spinoff

Showtime shuts down rumors of a ‘Dexter‘ reboot.

There are no plans to reboot Dexter, Showtime executives have reported.

Rumors all started over the holiday weekend that the network was considering bring back Michael C. Hall’s hit TV series after the show’s official Twitter account posted a mysterious tweet.

Many other news outlets picked up the story and described it as if Showtime was bringing back the serial killer Showtime drama.

However, while there are no current plans to bring back the show, after the series finale, Showtime revealed they were interested in doing the Dexter franchise again.

“We continue to talk about it,” Showtime topper David Nevins told reporters in January 2014. “If we were to do it, we have to have a very good reason to do it. It has to feel like it’s a new show. I’m not interested in doing it if it’s just a continuation. If we were to do it, I would only do it with Michael.”

“We never discussed the idea of killing [Dexter],” Nevins explained, noting that the character was not kept alive for a potential spinoff. “The people who are really in the center — Michael, Scott Buck, [executive producer] Sara Colleton — no one even brought up the idea. It was never discussed. … It remains to be seen whether they’re going to want to do [a spinoff] or whether I’m going to want to do it. They never felt like killing Dexter was the right end.”

After the series finale, fans bashed the the show for a disappointing season and finale. Showtime executive fired back by saying, “”The fundamental design of where they ended Dexter was really well conceived,” he said. “He had to sacrifice the one person who was closest to him in the world, and he had to leave. That was where it was headed for a very long time.”

If you haven’t watched Dexter before the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a blood spatter pattern analyst for Miami Metro Police Department who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system. Set in Miami, the show’s first season derived from the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004), the first of the Dexter seriesnovels by Jeff Lindsay. It was adapted for television by screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the first episode. Subsequent seasons evolved separate from of Lindsay’s books.