{"id":88698,"date":"2025-08-23T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88698\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:02:07","slug":"original-sin-season-2-canceled-despite-earlier-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88698\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Sin season 2 canceled despite earlier renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Operating with the merciless instincts of a born killer\u2014who nevertheless has the courtesy to think in constant and full sentences of quirky and charming narration\u2014Paramount has struck an unsuspecting target today, announcing that it\u2019s canceling Dexter\u00a0prequel series\u00a0Original Sin<\/a>\u00a0despite having already granted the streaming show a second season. Per\u00a0Variety<\/a>, news of the kill comes even as\u00a0Dexter sequel\u00a0series\u00a0Dexter: Resurrection<\/a>\u00a0is apparently being prepped for a second season; it\u2019s hard not to examine the fiscal blood spatter here and conclude that the recently merged studio looked at its abundance of Dexters, decided it needed to take one down to the ol\u2019 plastic-coated room, and opted to save the one with way more Michael C. Hall.<\/p>\n

Original Sin, which ran from December of last year through February of this one on Paramount+ (With SHOWTIME!), got its renewal notice back in April<\/a>, promising more early adventures for Dexter (Patrick Gibson), Deb (Molly Brown), and Harry (Christian Slater) Morgan, as the young Dexter first learned to take his Dark Passenger out on safe and responsible joy rides. The series was followed in July by Resurrection, which brought back Hall (who also performed narration duties on Original Sin) to reveal that Old Dexter had once again improbably survived an on-screen death, only to end up right back in the murder factory again, gosh dang it. Both series were led by Clyde Phillips, who originally developed Dexter\u00a0for TV, and who has performed the neat trick of getting credit pretty much exclusively for the seasons of the old show that people actually liked.<\/p>\n

Interestingly,\u00a0Variety\u00a0notes that, despite having been renewed four months ago, no actual forward movement had happened on\u00a0Original Sin\u00a0in that time. That same period, of course, also saw Paramount successfully sell itself out to Skydance, bringing in a new slate of execs to oversee its TV production; said executives apparently preferred Original Flavor Dexter to Dexter Babies, sealing the prequel series\u2019 doom.<\/p>\n

Dexter: Resurrection embraces pulpy potential for killer summer escapism<\/a>What’s on TV this week\u2014It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Too Much, Dexter: Resurrection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Operating with the merciless instincts of a born killer\u2014who nevertheless has the courtesy to think in constant and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-88698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}