Paramount kills Dexter Babies, despite previously renewing it

Original Sin, which ran from December of last year through February of this one on Paramount+ (With SHOWTIME!), got its renewal notice back in April, promising more early adventures for Dexter (Patrick Gibson), Deb (Molly Brown), and Harry (Christian Slater) Morgan, as the young Dexter first learned to take his Dark Passenger out on safe and responsible joy rides. The series was followed in July by Resurrection, which brought back Hall (who also performed narration duties on Original Sin) to reveal that Old Dexter had once again improbably survived an on-screen death, only to end up right back in the murder factory again, gosh dang it. Both series were led by Clyde Phillips, who originally developed Dexter for TV, and who has performed the neat trick of getting credit pretty much exclusively for the seasons of the old show that people actually liked.

Interestingly, Variety notes that, despite having been renewed four months ago, no actual forward movement had happened on Original Sin in that time. That same period, of course, also saw Paramount successfully sell itself out to Skydance, bringing in a new slate of execs to oversee its TV production; said executives apparently preferred Original Flavor Dexter to Dexter Babies, sealing the prequel series’ doom.