News

The stars of the new Dexter prequel series are hitting the red carpet!

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Christian Slater, Patrick Gibson, and Michael C. Hall stepped out for the premiere of Dexter: Original Sin on Wednesday (December 11) held at the Sva Theatre in New York City.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Christina Milian, Reno Wilson, James Martinez, Molly Brown, Alex Shimizu, Brittany Allen, Jasper Lewis, Randy Gonzalez, Raquel Justice, Carlo Mendez, and Isaac Gonzalez.

Here’s a synopsis: Set in 1991 Miami, Dexter: Original Sin follows Dexter (Gibson) as he transitions from student to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can’t be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness. With the guidance of his father, Harry (Slater), he adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people who deserve to be eliminated from society without getting on law enforcement’s radar. This...

Dexter: Original Sin introduces new cast members, shedding light on Dexter's mothers and previous characters. Surprising familiar names like Laura Moser and Dorris Morgan will provide new depths to Dexter's past and storyline in the prequel. The addition of characters like Hector Estrada and Santos Jimenez hints at more secrets to be uncovered in Dexter: Original Sin.

Dexter: Original Sin has rounded out its cast with nine new roles, including Dexters biological and foster mothers. Set 15 years before the events of the original series, previous casting announcements have already revealed that Shadow and Bones Patrick Gibson will be playing the younger version of Michael C. Halls Dexter Morgan, opposite Christian Slater as his foster father Harry. Other surprising cast announcements have also included Patrick Dempsey (Greys Anatomy) as Miami Metro Police Captain Aaron Spencer, and Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Dexters new boss, CSI Chief Tanya Martin.

Exclusive: Fox’s ramp-up in animation continues with a series order to Housebroken (fka Therapy Dog). The half-hour project, originally picked up by the network with a script plus presentation commitment, stars Lisa Kudrow, Clea Duvall and Nat Faxon and hails from writer-producer-actress Sharon Horgan, who also provides a voice, actress DuVall (Veep, American Horror Story), writer-producers Jennifer Crittenden & Gabrielle Allan (Veep, Divorce) and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment (A Million Little Things, Divorce).

Housebroken will be a co-production between Kapital and Fox Entertainment. It marks Kapital’s first animated series, With the pickup, Kapital is going 5 for 5 in pilots financed by the indie company going to series (including straight-to-series orders). It joins CBS’ 9Jkl and Fam , ABC’s A Million Little Things and CBS All Access’ Tell Me a Story.

Fox’s recently acquired animation house Bento Box (Bob’s Burgers) also will co-produce Housebroken and will do the animation.

Exclusive: Fox has put in development People Person, a single-camera comedy from Mad Love and Alex, Inc. creator Matt Tarses, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, and Wendi Trilling’s TrillTV. Sony Pictures TV, where Tarses has been under a deal for a long time, is co-producing with Fox Entertainment.

Written by Tarses, People Person is a comedy about the marriage of Sam, who doesn’t like people and doesn’t like doing things, and Emmy, the friendliest, most outgoing woman in the world.

Tarses executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling.

Kapital, TrillTV and Tarses previously teamed for blended family comedy Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices, which went to pilot at CBS in 2017.

Scrubs alum Tarses serves as consulting producer on Sony TV’s Mad About You revival for Spectrum Originals.

TrillTV and Kapital have three multi-camera half-hour projects projects in development at CBS,...

Pivoting, a half-hour single-camera comedy from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV, has landed at Fox in a script-plus-penalty development deal that includes one additional backup script.

Written by Astrof, Pivoting is a comedy about tragedy, set in a small, middle-class town in Long Island, where we follow three close-knit childhood friends, after the death of another. During the grieving period, when psychologists advise not to make any big decisions, our three friends do exactly that and upend their lives in an effort to find happiness while there is still time, taking on the mid-life challenge they never saw coming – becoming un-stuck.

Astrof executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor.

This marks Astrof’s second broadcast sale this season. She also is writing and executive producing The Last Happy Couple, a comedy in the works at CBS based on the United Studios of Israel series La Famiglia,...

Exclusive: Just in time for today’s Veterans Day, Fox has closed a deal for a script commitment plus penalty to Stateside, about a military veteran who returns to his job as a state trooper. The project, inspired by a true story, comes from The Enemy Within writer-producer Tony Camerino, an 18-year veteran of the Air Force and Air Force Reserves; Royal Pains creator Andrew Lenchewski; and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.

Written by Lenchewski and Camerino, Stateside centers on a fearless Special Ops veteran who returns from Iraq to his job as a Massachusetts State Trooper, and is shocked to find his hometown in even worse shape than the war-torn village he spent the past year rebuilding. Gangbangers are rolling through the streets, Ak-47s slung over their shoulders, dealing drugs with impunity. He boldly decides to take the lessons learned in battle and apply them on the streets of an American city.

Exclusive: Fox is developing Sanchez, Ohio (working title), a multi-camera/hybrid comedy written by Isaac Gonzalez (Mr. Iglesias) and comedy veteran Chris Case, creator of Retired at 35, and directed by Victor Gonzalez. The project hails from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and SideCar Content Accelerator, the Fox Entertainment-owned production company ran by Gail Berman.

In Sanchez, Ohio, after he gets a promotion, Tony Sanchez, a Mexican-American dad with traditional values, moves his family from liberal Los Angeles to conservative Ohio, where they find out they have more in common than they ever could have imagined with their new neighbors, a red state white family.

Isaac Gonzalez and Case executive produce alongside Victor Gonzalez and Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor.

The project stems from Victor Gonzalez’s exclusive development arrangement with Kapital Entertainment focused on developing Latinx multi-camera comedy series for broadcast, cable and streaming.

Gonzalez, a sought-after multi-camera episodic director,...