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Film, stage and television actor John Lithgow will portray Miami’s latest serial killer in SHOWTIME’s drama series “Dexter.”  Lithgow will be featured in all 12 episodes of season four starting at the end of September.   

Lithgow will play Walter Simmons, an unassuming, mild-mannered suburbanite who has been living a dual life as one of America’s most prolific and deadliest serial killers.  Dubbed the “Trinity Killer” because of his proclivity to kill in three’s, he relocates to Miami after being tracked by F.B.I. Special Agent Frank Lundy (Keith Carradine).  Brought on to assist in the investigation of Miami’s latest serial killer, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) becomes fascinated with “Trinity’s” unique killing methods and his ability to evade capture for almost three decades.  

“Dexter” stars Michael C. Hall as a complicated and conflicted blood-spatter expert for the Miami police department who moonlights as a serial killer.

Variety reports that Kevin Bacon is preparing a series about Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth for Showtime.

Dubbed The Booths, the series will revolve around the family of John Wilkes Booth and his dysfunctional relationships in the years before Lincoln’s assassination.

Booth had two brothers – Edwin and Junius Brutus Jr. – with whom he performed on stage once, in a New York showing of Julius Caesar in 1864. He assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in 1865.

Showtime’s drama pilot “Possible Side Effects,” nabbed Ellen Burstyn has joined the cast. The plot is set inside the world of the pharmaceutical industry.

Burstyn is set to play the matriarch of the Hunt family, a powerful but dysfunctional brood that runs a drug company that gets into a heap of trouble – must be straight from the headlines. Josh Lucas is already attached to star, as is Tim Blake Nelson.

Tim Robbins is writing and directing “Possible Side Effects.”