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IRISH ACTOR GIBSON’S DEXTER PREQUEL
IRISH actor Patrick Gibson will take on the role of serial killer Dexter Morgan alongside American star Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays his boss in a new prequel series.
Gibson (29) will be playing the future blood spatter analyst Morgan at the Miami Metro Police Department opposite the Buffy The Vampire Slayer actress (47), who plays Tanya Martin, the Crime Scene Investigation chief.
Set 15 years before the original hit series, Dexter: Original Sin will chronicle the start of the career of the lead character, originally played by Michael C Hall in the hit show and sequel Dexter: New Blood.
Gellar wrote on Instagram: “It’s going to be a bloody good ride.”
Gellar also shared an Instagram story, showing the first page of the script for the pilot, written by showrunner Clyde Phillips and directed by Heathers director Michael Lehmann.
Meanwhile, our fine investigative journalists have used their detective skills to uncover the crime shows heading to your telly screens this year.
A whopping 24 police dramas are scheduled for the months ahead.
Here are the new recruits and old favourites to watch out for...
Classy drama about diamond thief Joan Hannington, set in 1980s London. Joan (Sophie Turner) turns to crime to escape her terrible marriage.
A true-crime drama with Shaun Evans as serial killer John Sweeney and Anna Maxwell Martin as Delia Balmer, the woman who survived an attack by Sweeney and gave vital evidence in the prosecution against her former lover.
This real-time thriller is set on the sleeper from Glasgow to London as the train speeds out of control. It’s up to off-duty police officer Joe (Joe Cole) and cyber expert Abby (Alexandra Roach) to stop it. The Speed-style six-parter is due on in early autumn.
This comedy stars Vince Vaughn as Andrew Yancy, a detective turned health inspector in Florida who is pulled into a dark world after a severed arm is found on a beach. Due to start on August 14.
Natalie Portman takes on her first lead role in a TV series playing Maddie, a Jewish housewife in 1960s Baltimore who tries to become an investigative journalist only to become obsessed with two strange deaths. Starts July 19.
Anne-Marie Duff is back this summer as Dr Susannah Newman, who is on a mission to discover the truth about her daughter’s death.