I was lucky enough to be in the room yesterday at
Comic-Con when Showtime debuted a first look at
Dexter's upcoming third season. It's just two minutes long, but it includes a bunch of fantastic teases for some of the upcoming action, including the appearance of Jimmy Smits as attorney Miguel Prado, who becomes a friend of Dexter's.
A friend.
The TV
upfronts may be nothing more than a fond memory, but there's still a trickle of casting news coming in about Fall shows — both on networks and on cable. One of these stories involves a recently displaced actor whose show's cancellation
bummed some of you out, while another puts a veteran film actor in the lead of a series based on an Oscar-winning movie. Read on:
Smits Joins Dexter
Jimmy Smits, seen most recently in the CBS show
Cane, will be staying in Miami for his next role:
Smits will play an attorney on Showtime's
Dexter.
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The first season of
Dexter will
begin airing on CBS Feb. 17, and CBS is ramping up its efforts to recruit viewers over to the dark side. A bunch of new promos have popped up on the network's
YouTube channel over the past day or so, and it's interesting to see how CBS is marketing the quirky, bloody Showtime series to network viewers.
