Dexter
Dexter is an
Emmy and Golden
Globe Award-winning American television drama series that airs on
the pay-TV channel, Showtime. In February 2008 reruns began to air on
CBS. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C.
Hall), a serial killer with standards who works for the Miami Metro
Police Department as a blood-spatter analyst.
Dexter's
Laboratory is an American animated series created by Genndy
Tartakovsky and produced by Cartoon Network Studios (also co-produced
with Hanna-Barbera in 1996-2001). It is about a boy genius named
Dexter, who has an enormous secret laboratory, filled with an endless
collection of his inventions, which is entered primarily through a
bookshelf in his bedroom. It also has a TV show a he show is based on
characters created by Jeff Lindsay for his series of
Dexter novels. It was adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning
screenwriter James Manos, Jr, who wrote the pilot episode.
And there is a novel too; the first season of Dexter is based on the
novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. However, there are
numerous differences, ranging from extra subplots to rearrangements and
modifications of elements from the source material. The biggest change
is the lead-up to and revelation of the identity of the "Ice Truck
Killer", called the "Tamiami Butcher" in the novel. In the novel,
Dexter is led to believe that he might be the one committing the
murders, due to a series of strange dreams that connect him to the
murder.
