Yesterday it was revealed that everyone's favourite serial killer Dexter would be returning to our screens.
The 10-part series is tipped to go into production next year, with Michael C. Hall reprising his role as the titular character.
For now plot details are scarce, but in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Dexter producer Clyde Phillips has teased that the new series could serve as a second shot at a finale.
He said: "This isn't Dexter season nine... this was an opportunity to write a second finale for the show."
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Showtime's co-president of Entertainment Gary Levine said the show, which originally ran from 2006 to 2013, would never be revisited unless there was a brilliant idea to take it forward and now it seems that there is one.
In a statement, Levine said: "We would only revisit this unique character if we could find a creative take that was truly worthy of the brilliant, original series.
"Well, I am happy to report that Clyde Phillips and Michael C. Hall have found it."
Meanwhile, Hall has always appeared to be open to the idea of a return.
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In a 2019 interview with the Daily Beast, the actor said: "Every time I'm asked about [another season of Dexter]. I say, 'Never say never.' The next thing I know there's an announcement on the internet saying, 'He's going to do it again.'
"The way that show ended gave no sense of closure for people and a lot of questions unanswered.
"He seems to be in this self-imposed exile, he certainly didn't ride off into the sunset. His sister died. It left a gnarly knot in some viewers' stomachs. I stand by how that eighth season ended."
He added: "If he had kept on killing people he'd have been fine, but he gets married, he opens his imagination and heart.
"He has a real connection to people, and all those people are compromised or destroyed in some way. For it to be all tidied up after that would have not been honest.
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"For him to simulate his own death and extricate himself from the context of his life made sense to me.
"As far as any more of that happening, it's possible."
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