Last night in Beverly Hills, Michael C. Hall made an appearance at the 27th Annual PaleyFest, this year honoring Dexter. Desmond Harrington, Jennifer Carpenter, Julie Benz, Lauren Velez, David Zayas, C.S. Lee and Brando Eston also were in attendance. As you’ll see in the photos, Michael is really looking fantastic, which is great to see!

At the event, Entertainment Weekly got the exclusive dish on season five of the series. Now some pretty heavy season 4 & 5 spoilers are discussed, but I decided to go ahead and read it myself as I would like to know the direction the show might take after the big big from the last episode of season 4. It answered my questions and I can definitely say I’m looking forward to the fifth season more than any of the past years! If you would like to get a peek into whats to come then check out the article here! If you wish to remain spoiler free, then avoid.

They also spoke a bit about Michael’s recovery and said:

“Michael’s in full remission. I just had a three-hour breakfast with him this morning. He’s in great shape and is getting his energy back. We are all very excited to get back to work. The guy is incredibly courageous and worked hard all through last season despite being sick. He’s an amazing human being and actor. It was scary, but the show will go on. We start shooting in late April or May, which is usual. We will not have to stall production.”

Finally, you can view the first photos I’ve found in the gallery. Everyone looks so great! Jennifer looks adorable in the photos too.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Public Events: The PaleyFest 2010 Presents Dexter

I came across this cute video today I hadn’t seen before. It’s a promotional video from FOX Portugal of Michael and Jennifer attempting to speak portuguese to promote the series when it was premiering there. Enjoy!

The Harry Potter Alliance (http://www.thehpalliance.org) and different websites across many different fandoms have put together a massive online donation drive to assist efforts in Haiti. Some of these fandoms include websites from Harry Potter, True Blood, Firefly, Mad Men, Dexter and many many more.

If you donate at http://www.thehpalliance.org/haiti by January 30th, you are automatically entered to win one of more than 200 prizes, many of which are unique, rare, and highly valuable! So far, the drive has raised well over $40,000 in less than 48 hours! It has been truly amazing, and it wouldn’t be possible withoutunprecedented inter-fandom cooperation.

Dexter fans might be interested in these prizes in particular:

- Donate $10.00 by Jan. 30th and you can win bobbleheads from almost all characters from Dexter donated by Showtime., OR
- Donate $30.00 by Jan. 30th and you can win A DEXTER season 1-3 DVD package! Also donated by Showtime

More non-related prizes include such gems as A full set of Harry Potter novels signed and donated by J.K. Rowling or original, never before seen, concept art from the film Where the Wild Things Are. And these are just a few of the items you can win by donating. A complete list of prizes can be found at here.

For more information or to donate go to http://www.thehpalliance.org/haiti, or you can follow their twitter.

Examiner has some of what was said by Michael in the SAG Press Room.

How have you spent your time in the days between winning your Golden Globe Award and your Screen Actors Guild Award? And how are you feeling?

I have been feeling very well. Because I made this announcement [about recovering from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer], these public appearances were on the horizon, and it’s actually been a nice surprise. I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me who otherwise wouldn’t have: high-school teachers, friends from college. I spent a lot of this week responded to a lot of concerned but ultimately congratulatory e-mails and things like that. It’s been a lot of fun.

When you started Dexter, did you foresee getting any awards for the show? Did you think the show would be as critically acclaimed as it is?

I didn’t know. I knew our task was to sympathize a serial killer, and that it was a unique goal. I thought that the show would probably develop some sort of cult following, but I didn’t anticipate that the following would be as broad, that it would attract as many different kinds of viewers as it’s had. And I certainly didn’t foresee [Dexter] bobbleheads and video games and all that stuff.

Where did you put your Golden Globe, and where are you going to put your Screen Actors Guild Award?

I put it [the Golden Globe Award] in a little passageway in between the bathroom and the guest bedroom, where we have such things in our house. I’ll probably put it [the Screen Actors Guild Award] up there.

Here is the video of Michael winning Best Actor at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards! The clip is a little longer than just his own speech but I will replace it with a higher quality version when it’s available.