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Dexter star Julie Benz has been tapped to star opposite Michael Chiklis in ABC’s new pilot No Ordinary Family.
The drama revolves around Jim (Michael Chiklis), a once aspiring artist-turned-police artist, and his typical American family who suddenly finds themselves with new “abilities.” Julie will play Jim’s wife, a gifted scientist who develops a power for superspeed.
Currently, Benz is starring on Desperate Housewives as a lap dancer who has just taken up residence on Wisteria Lane. In the season four finale of Dexter, Julie’s character, Rita, was surprisingly killed.
PaleyFest 2010, the Paley Center for Media’s annual television celebration, begins Friday in Beverly Hills, CA. During the fest, the casts and creators of the best shows currently on TV participate in panel discussions, Q & A sessions and meet and greets.
Here’s are all of the shows that will be featured in PaleyFest 2010: “Modern Family” (2/26), “Lost” (2/27), “NCIS” (3/1), “Community” (3/3), “Dexter” (3/4), “Cougar Town” (3/5), “The Vampire Diaries” (3/6), An evening with Seth Macfarlane and friends (3/9), “Breaking Bad” (3/10), “Flashforward” (3/11), “Men of a Certain Age” (3/12), “Glee” (3/13), “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (3/14).
Last night, as Dexter’s Michael C. Hall walked on stage to accept the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama, some in the media, and in the live audience, made some unfortunate comments about the cap he was wearing.
Hall had revealed last week that he was on the road to recovery after secretly battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But, obviously, not everyone got the memo. On the live blog for MacLeans, Brian D. Johnson wrote, “Michael C. Hall wins best actor in a TV drama series for Dexter. He looks like a bit of a psycho cause he’s wearing a black toque. What’s up with that?” And the NY Times The Moment blog tweeted, “Is Michael C Hall playing Bob Marley in an upcoming movie? Don’t get the hat or what is hiding under it?” (In their defense they did remove the tweet after catching some backlash for the comment.)
Actor Michael C. Hall who portrays a likeable “serial killer-next-door” on Showtime’s drama Dexter, has been battling cancer in secret for the past few months. The 38-year-old actor had been diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma and had been undergoing treatment for the disease. Treatment for the disease has been successful and the cancer is now in complete remission.
Hall released an official statement, letting fans know that he had been fighting cancer behind the scenes and that he was on the road to a clean bill of health: “I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition, and I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care.”
Michael C Hall and John Lithgow sat down recently to discuss the shocking season four finale of Dexter. Throughout the season Lithgow played a serial killer, “The Trinity Killer”, who killed Dexter’s wife Rita before Dexter had a chance to kill him in the last episode.
About the death of Rita, Michael C Hall said, “I did think it was a really bold stroke in terms of resetting the stage in terms of what’s to come, whatever that may be. I think more than anything I was horrified and I felt for the audience, it’s the sort of thing that ties people in knots.”
Dexter and Jersey Shore experienced high ratings and provided a strong boost for their respective networks.
Showtime’s original series hit, Dexter, set a ratings record for the network and earned 2.58 million viewers that tuned into the 9pm ET show. An additional 508,000 watched the repeat later on that night. This was the first time any original Showtime show drew more than 3 million viewers on a single night. The episode of Dexter also landed the largest audience of any Showtime telecast since the 1999 Mike Tyson/Orlin Norris fight in Las Vegas, which lasted for only a few seconds.
The total audience for Dexter on Sunday represented a 71-percent increase over last season’s finale. This season’s finale also helped increase viewer-ship for Showtime’s other original series, Californication, which followed directly after Dexter. It drew 1.1 million.
Season 4 of Dexter can be summed up in a single word: Wow.
What started out as the best season of a tremendous series ended as the best season ever with a concise ending to the Trinity story arc, as well as leaving things up in the air for Season 5. I’m still picking my jaw up off the floor.
The episode opens up with Dexter having been formally addressed by Arthur with all the warmth that Seinfeld had reserved for Newman. In that moment, realizing that now that Arthur knows his real name, Dexter all but craps his pants worrying about what will happen to his family and the dual life he’s carved for himself (no pun intended). Arthur tells Dexter that he wants him to disappear from his life and cease with the extortion bit before striding from the precinct triumphantly.
With two more episodes to go and even more reveals and plot twists a-comin’, Dexter kicks off Season 4’s penultimate episode at the precinct. Christine, the little prick, is stonewalling Detective Batista when he asks her how she’s related to the Trinity Killer. She claims she doesn’t know how she’s related to Trinity, even though hos DNA matches hers. Batista also provides a case file that Christine’ mother, Lorraine Hill, has been dead for five years and her father is unknown. Juggs then claims she never met her father after her mother got pregnant. Christine believes that she can only held for 48 hours before learning that she’s a material witness and can be held indefinitely. Oh, schnap!
Since last week’s incident where Cody crashed through the skylight in the shed, Dexter’s found a new place to stash his stuff: a shipping container that he’s rented, reminiscent of the birthplace of his Dark Passenger. This is a much more suitable and secure place to keep the ol’ kill tools and trophies…. And Dexter’s hoping Arthur’s blood slide will help him christen his new digs!
Wearing his olive green kill clothes, he tracks Arthur to a parking lot. Arthur has been trailing a family who’s incredibly stupid enough to put their names on the back of their SUV with a cling film decal. When the boy, Scott, gets separated from his family at the arcade, Arthur swoops in to tell Scott that he’s a police officer and that his parents have been in a car accident. Using the family’s names to lend legitimacy to his cover, Arthur tells him that his sister is with his partner and the boy needs to come with him now. He takes the kid out to his van and chloroforms him. When the boy wakes up, Arthur keeps referring to Scott as “Arthur.” What follows is John Lithgow redefining “creepy” by playing with a choo-choo train on the floor.
It’s Thanksgiving, Dexter Morgan! Dexter offers up a Thanksgiving episode that (barring a few pointless, sidebar-story moments with the continuing Batista/LaGuerta romance) serves up a generous helping of tension and revelations.
Things start off with Dexter ruminating on how he can make Trinity disappear faster than a Thanksgiving Day turkey and hits upon a plan to invite himself to the Mitchell’s holiday dinner. At the Mitchell residence, Dexter watches as Arthur and his teenage son argue. Dexter/Kyle trails him and watches as Jonah takes a baseball bat to his sweet classic convertible, smashing the windows. Jonah confesses to Kyle that he wishes his father had died. Arthur hits Kyle and is a nightmare to his mother and sister, as well, and he’s running out of excuses to give to his coaches. Dexter/Kyle offers to go with Jonah to explain the car and act as a buffer at Thanksgiving dinner.
