Dexter and Billions will live on at Showtime, albeit in other forms.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Showtime has given a straight-to-series order for a Dexter prequel and has four spin-offs of hit drama Billions in the works.
Per WSJ, Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien are developing a spinoff set in Miami, will oversee the development of a potential London spinoff, and are working on two planned additional spin-offs titled Millions, about young characters on the come-up in finance; and Trillions, a "soapier foray into the ultrarich set."
Though Showtime is reportedly exploring other prequel ideas for various Dexter killers, the network has given a series order to a prequel that follows Michael C. Hall's vigilante cop as a young boy in Miami. It's also likely that Dexter: New Blood, the sequel series, will be back for a second season.
"Of course we’re going to do new shows," said newly appointed Paramount CEO Chris McCarthy said. "But we’re going to do [originals] in a way that has a much more stable base because we’ll have these big tentpoles that bring and hold the audience."
