Now you’ve got no excuse.

Dexter is coming to CBS, for real. The network will air the show’s first season, in an edited format, at 10 p.m. on Sundays starting Feb. 17.

I’ll be curious to see what makes it to the final cut — I’m thinking that the show might be 17 minutes long once they edit out all the scenes with severed limbs. But, then again, all those gross CSI shows show worse than that, right?

Looks like Ricky Gervais might be spinning off one of the characters from Extras.

Per RTE Entertainment:

Ricky Gervais may be planning an Extras spin-off starring Stephen Merchant’s dopey agent and Barry from ‘EastEnders’ as a pair of bumbling crimefighters.
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“The one thing we did bandy about, half in jest and half seriously, was the idea of a spin-off for my character Barry and the agent. Ricky thought they could go around in a camper van solving crimes or something.”
He added: “That’s strictly on the backburner for now as Ricky is busy in Hollywood at the moment. I’d jump at the chance to work with him again.”

For some reason, I love the idea of spin-offs. On one hand, it smacks of desperately trying to recapture the profitability of a deceased series. On the other hand, it allows characters who never realized their full potential to flourish.

It could work. It could not work. No one needs another Private Practice lead balloon.

Makes me wonder — if their respective series went kaput, which characters would have the most promising spin-offs.

“Big, big, big cat!” — Shonen Knife

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• Reaper and Gossip Girl are switching times.
• Potential Colbert guests don’t want to cross picket lines.
• Lost shot decoy endings for season four.
• People are doing the “send the network a lot of a certain product” thing to get gay people to kiss on As The World Turns.
• Speaking of the gays, Heroes’ Zach is gay in the graphic novels.