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Ewwww! Dexter Married His Sister

8:26AM Seth | Look, for three seasons now we’ve humoured Dexter on his bloody little vigilante campaign to rid the world of murderers, rapists, dine-n’-dashers, and the like. But now he’s overstepped the boundaries of serial-killer good taste. More »

WGA Awards Recognise Every Half-Decent Show On TV With Its Own, Worthless Nomination

8:12AM STV | The Writers Guild unveiled its 2009 TV nominees this morning, revealing a radical shift in taste that rotated only one new drama and two new comedies into the year’s Best Series nominations — all replacing old nominees that weren’t on the air this year. Let’s hear it for attrition! More »

Canada: Your Friendly, ‘Dexter’-Obsessed, Decapitating Psychopaths To The North!

8:12AM Seth | You’ll have to forgive us for being a little too preoccupied with events going on in our own backyards and stateside to notice what’s been going on lately up in Canada. Let’s see: last we checked in, a Chinese immigrant on a Greyhound bus that boarded in Edmonton had decapitated and cannibalised another passenger on a desolate stretch of highway—definitely one of those instances where all the universal health care in the world isn’t really going to do much good. Now comes news of a Dexter-obsessed, suspected serial killer living in the same bloodcicle wasteland, named Mark Andrew Twitchell. More »

Defamer Predicts the 2008 Emmys: The Dramas

4:50AM Kyle Buchanan | We’ve already run through our predictions for Emmy’s comedy categories, but now it’s time to sit down for forty-four minutes (excepting commercials) and soberly judge this year’s crop of dramas. Again, we’ll be blogging the Emmys live from the East Coast starting at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT, so if Mariska Hargitay lets loose with an expletive-laden diatribe or Jeremy Piven has a nip slip on the red carpet, you can be sure we’ve got it covered. Now, onto the predictions:

Is ‘Dexter’ Too Dirty For Primetime?

9:20AM Molly Friedman | Parenthood groups are always trying to ruin the fun. Just after adorable homocidal freak Dexter made his debut on CBS to triumphant ratings, the Parents Television Council is trying to take the show off the air (or at least back to Showtime, where skeeviness and scandal rules). Despite having some of the funniest accusatory headlines we’ve seen since “Headless Body In Topless Bar” on their site (NBC is guilty of Airing Nudity and Assaulting Families!), Dexter seems to have pushed their buttons more than any entries on their list of Worst Shows On Television: “What could possibly lead them to determine that a show about a pathological serial killer ‘hero’ could be appropriate for 14-year old children? The only reason is corporate greed.”

Trade Roundup: The Return Of Late-Night?

7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | They aren’t done administering the defibrillator to the dead-eyed corpse of late-night TV just yet: Some are buzzing that “several hosts” plan on returning to the air by January 7, making life a little less egg-pelty for Ellen DeGeneres and Carson Daly. [Variety] After next week every scripted TV series shooting in LA will have officially gone dark, explaining the eerie, silent calm throughout the city, and the longer, sadder lines at the Coffee Bean. [Variety] Always at the cutting edge of internet marketing content, Showtime has set up a hybrid video player/chat room for serial killer drama Dexter, allowing fans to learn cutting-edge knifing techniques visually as they swap mass-murder tips. [THR] More »

Trade Roundup: Angelina Jolie To Sex Up Boring Old Spy Story About Gun-Running And Terrorists

6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · Paramount acquires the rights to the life of spy Kathi Lynn Austin, whose arms-trafficking and terrorism-related adventures could become “an action vehicle” for Angelina Jolie that will ultimately bear little to no resemblance to the intelligence operative’s real life. [Variety] · Publicists love Judd Apatow! He’ll be named 2007’s “outstanding film showman” at the 45th annual Flackies. [Variety] · Edward Norton will play identical twins (”one an Ivy League classics professo rand the other a hedonistic pot-smoking career criminal,” naturally) in Tim Blake Nelson’s comedy thriller Leaves of Grass. [Variety] More »

Showtime’s Bloody Fountain Just As Innocent Looking As They’d Promised

5:20AM Defamer Hollywood | We apologise for questioning the sincerity of that marketing executive who insisted that the fountain at Hollywood and Highland was running red with good, clean Showtime colour-branding, not the cruor of a relatable serial killer’s victims. As you can plainly see in LAist’s photo (there are more here) of the tinted water gently cascading behind the network’s “promo scene” tape, anyone who came away with the impression that the fountain was filled with blood was obviously bringing his or her own violent baggage to the experience. BONUS PROMOTIONAL FUN! Hurty Elbow notes that Showtime has made it murderously easy to send your best friends (or the guy who keeps taking your spot in front of the Chinese Theatre) a lighthearted death threat. [Photo: Sonny/LAist] Showtime’s Fountain of Smelly Blood [LAist]< More »