Dexter gets kill order

Cable channel Showtime has pulled the plug on Dexter, the critically acclaimed show starring Michael C. Hall about a police analyst who is also a serial killer. The show pushed boundaries in terms of violence and dark humour. “When it debuted in 2006,...

Cable channel Showtime has pulled the plug on Dexter, the critically acclaimed show starring Michael C. Hall about a police analyst who is also a serial killer.

The show pushed boundaries in terms of violence and dark humour.

“When it debuted in 2006, Dexter redefined the genre by taking the anti-hero to new heights,” Showtime chairman and CEO Matthew C. Blank said in a statement.

Dexter earned Hall a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award. The show has more than 13 million fans on Facebook and about seven million Americans watched last season’s finale.

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