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'' is an American television drama that was broadcast on the premium cable channel Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. A total of 96 episodes of ''Dexter'' were broadcast over eight seasons. The series is based on characters created by Jeff Lindsay for his ''Dexter'' series of novels, and follows the life of
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Michael C. Hall Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor and musician. He is known for playing Dexter Morgan, the titular character in the Showtime (TV network), Showtime series ''Dexter (TV series), Dexter'' and David Fisher (Six Feet ...
), a Miami Metro Police Department blood pattern analyst with a double life. While investigating murders in the homicide division, Dexter hunts and kills murderers and criminals who have escaped the justice system. Although the first season is based on the events of ''
Darkly Dreaming Dexter ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'' is a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay, the first in his crime/ thriller series about American forensic analyst/serial killer Dexter Morgan. It formed the basis of the Showtime television series '' Dexter'' and won the 2005 ...
'', the series's subsequent seasons do not follow the novels in the series. Departing from the narrative of Lindsay's second Dexter novel '' Dearly Devoted Dexter'', the show's writer Daniel Cerone said that the writers "didn't see the opportunity in the second book" to adapt it. The series has received generally favorable reviews from critics, while the second season was widely praised. The
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, which aired in the US on October 1, 2006, attracted more than a million viewers, giving Showtime its highest series ratings in nearly two years. Due to a dearth of original programming as a result of the
2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike From November 5, 2007, to February 12, 2008, all 12,000 film and television screenwriters of the American labor union Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), and West (WGAW) went on strike. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike primarily so ...
, CBS began broadcasting ''Dexter'' in edited form on
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television on February 17, 2008, thus making ''Dexter'' the first program in two decades to air on a national broadcast network after being shown on a premium cable channel. Eight seasons comprising twelve episodes each have been broadcast in the United States and abroad. All eight seasons have been released on DVD and on Blu-ray; box sets containing the first three seasons were released on August 18, 2009, on both DVD and Blu-ray. The show received multiple nominations for various awards, winning 52—including four
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s, two
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s, seven
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s, six Saturn Awards, one
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, and one
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—and was twice selected by the
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as one of the ten best television programs of the year in 2006 and 2007. Other nominations include PGA Awards, WGA Awards, and
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Series overview


Episodes


Season 1 (2006)


Season 2 (2007)


Season 3 (2008)


Season 4 (2009)


Season 5 (2010)


Season 6 (2011)


Season 7 (2012)


Season 8 (2013)


''Dexter: Early Cuts''

In 2009, Showtime started releasing an animated ''Dexter'' webseries. Each story is told in several two-minute chapters, the first three of which were written by series writer and producer Lauren Gussis, and premiered in 2009. More episodes were released in 2010 and 2011.


Season 1 (2009–10)


Season 2: ''Dark Echo'' (2010)


Season 3: ''All in the Family'' (2012)


Home releases


See also

* '' Dexter: New Blood'' * '' Dexter: Original Sin''


References


External links

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