Michael was on Live with Regis and Kelly on Tuesday discussing Dexter. It was a fun little interview and I really laughed about his comments regarding his wife Jennifer Carpenter aka “foster sister” on the show. Captures are available in the gallery and the video is after the jump. Enjoy!

Don’t forget that Michael’s Letterman interview is airing tomorrow night (Friday).

GALLERY LINKS:
- Talk Shows: Live with Regis & Kelly (September 28, 2010)

HD Screencaps from 5×01 of Dexter, “My Bad” are available in the gallery. It was an amazing premiere featuring one of the best single episode performances of Michael thus far in my honest opinion! Discuss the episode in our forum. Remember the caps may feature spoilers to those who have yet to see the epi!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Dexter: 5×01 Screencaps

Michael C. Hall has admitted that he has no idea how Dexter will end.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the actor explained that the series could finish in a number of ways.

“There are fundamental questions,” he said. “Is he alive when the show ends? Is he dead? If he’s dead, who kills him? The federal government? Another person? Himself?

“If he’s alive, where is he alive? In prison? Flying off into the sunset? Does he become a monk? Then there’s another season of just him meditating.”

Hall added that there are so many possible endings that there could be an entire season of Dexter devoted to them.

“I was joking with one of the writers that we could have a 12-episode season and each episode would be a different ending,” he said. “I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

Dexter continues on Sundays at 9pm on Showtime.

Source: Digital Spy

Michael is going to be doing some promotion this week – tune in!

September 28, 2010 – Regis & Kelly (ABC)
October 1, 2010 – David Letterman (CBS)
October 8, 2010 – Ellen Degenres (FOX)

With Over 2.3 Million Viewers, Dexter Delivers Showtime’s Best Season Premiere In 15 Years!

Last Night’s Fifth Season Premiere Up Double Digits Vs. Season Four

* Dexter’s fifth season debut marked the series’ highest rated premiere ever and the best season premiere for a SHOWTIME original series in 15 years.
* With 2.34 million viewers, DEXTER attracted the largest season premiere night audience in series history.
* The fifth season premiere ranks as the top telecast for the network in 2010.

9:01p 1.77 MM viewers (+16% vs. last year’s premiere 1.52MM)
11:00p 575K viewers
Total 2.34 MM viewers (+22% vs. last year’s premiere night 1.92MM)

Source: TV By the Numbers

Here is what is in store for tonight’s fifth season premiere of Dexter! I can not wait! As always, avoid this synopsis if you wish to remain spoiler-free. A clip from the premiere is posted after the jump.

This post may contain spoilers for readers still catching up on DVD.

Q. Are there some key themes or narrative arcs threading through Dexter this season?

A. We’re primarily dealing with the blowback from Rita’s death and the fact that Dexter is culpable. In a way, discovering his infant son in that pool of blood is a new origin story. We’re familiar with the original origin story, where Dexter is an innocent baby, but now his son is that baby and Dexter is not so innocent. So he’s carrying around a heavy dose of guilt and is motivated to atone for the responsibility he feels for his wife’s death.

If you’re waiting to watch season four of Dexter on DVD, don’t read this interview yet. The ending of last season was so shocking, we’ve got to talk about it with Michael C. Hall. Season five will pick up right after the death of, uh, that person we’re trying not to spoil. Hall did a good job teasing a group of reporters from the Television Critics Association, so all he spoiled was the fourth season, which most of us are already caught up on.

CraveOnline: How is Dexter dealing with remorse, if he has any?

Michael C. Hall: I think it’s sublimated. I don’t know if he’s consciously aware of it and yet I think a lot of the things he does and doesn’t do at the outset of the fifth season and throughout it are motivated by some sort of subterranean sense of remorse that he can’t even quite consciously be aware of but I think he does want to atone.