{"id":89871,"date":"2025-08-22T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89871\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:33:06","slug":"no-season-2-despite-earlier-pickup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89871\/","title":{"rendered":"No Season 2 Despite Earlier Pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Dexter prequel Original Sin won\u2019t get a second season, despite an announcement to the contrary earlier this year. The Dexter franchise is still a going concern, however, with a writers room for season two of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dexter-resurrection\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dexter-resurrection_1\" data-tag=\"dexter-resurrection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dexter: Resurrection<\/a> set to begin work in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShowtime announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/dexter-original-sin-renewed-season-2-showtime-1236177496\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second season renewal<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dexter-original-sin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dexter-original-sin_1\" data-tag=\"dexter-original-sin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dexter: Original Sin<\/a> in April, six weeks after the 1991-set series following a young Dexter Morgan (played by Patrick Gibson) ended its 10-episode first season. Sources say, however, that the show had been on hiatus since production wrapped, and no start date for production on a second season was ever scheduled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWith a change in leadership at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paramount\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount_1\" data-tag=\"paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a> following the Skydance merger, the Dexter franchise moved from Showtime\/MTV Entertainment into the reborn Paramount Television Studios under Matt Thunell. The decision then came to focus on Resurrection, which continues the present-day Dexter\u2019s (Michael C. Hall) story from the original 2006-13 series and the 2021-22 follow-up Dexter: New Blood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA writers room for a potential second season of Resurrection is set to open soon, with the intent being a renewal, sources tell THR \u2014 though season two has yet to be formally greenlit. The series has been performing well for Paramount+ Premium and the linear Showtime channel. The premiere episode drew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/dexter-resurrection-premiere-ratings-1236318497\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3.1 million viewers<\/a> over its opening weekend and grew to 4.4 million after seven days; Paramount says the Aug. 15 episode drew the show\u2019s largest audience of the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSources also note that Paramount remains invested in the Dexter franchise but is directing its efforts toward the unfolding story of Resurrection rather than filling in more of the character\u2019s life in a continued prequel series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVariety first reported the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dexter prequel Original Sin won\u2019t get a second season, despite an announcement to the contrary earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,46898,24270,75,9489,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-89871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dexter-original-sin","11":"tag-dexter-resurrection","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-paramount","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}