# "Dexter" to air on CBS **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-to-air-on-cbs/433352 "2008-01-13T02:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-to-air-on-cbs/433352/41 "2008-01-17T04:27:34Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] This will certainly be an improvement over the usual maiming of expletives—either by simply blanking the sound, or by dubbing using ridiculous words like “mother-lover”—but i still think it will make the show something less than it was. […] Cuts for time? Is that all? Sorry, but this doesn’t make me any more optimistic. [/QUOTE] I agree completely that the cuts for time will add a ton of suck. My best guess is that they’ll either chop a bunch of the childhood memories, or a bunch of the girlfriend’s home life. I’m not at all thrilled with either prospect, since that’s effectively a choice between cutting out the heart or the soul of the show. (In opposite order.) My only point is that there won’t really be much butchering; it’ll be a smooth desecration that was planned from the beginning. In an ideal world, CBS can create some sort of oddly-timed reality show to pair with it and do like A&E does with the Sopranos by broadcasting it in 75-minute blocks. I agree with you in principle; I was really just clarifying. Any edits at all offend me, so I made it a point to “rent” both seasons immediately once I heard that they were going to air edited versions. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-to-air-on-cbs/433352/42 "2008-01-17T04:51:43Z")
I can’t wait to see how they handle the episode where Dexter steps into the hotel room and finds all that missing blood!! I’m pretty sure there’s never been anything like that on CSI. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-to-air-on-cbs/433352/43 "2008-01-17T05:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=pepperlandgirl] I can’t wait to see how they handle the episode where Dexter steps into the hotel room and finds all that missing blood!! I’m pretty sure there’s never been anything like that on CSI. [/QUOTE] No titties. No problem. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-to-air-on-cbs/433352/44 "2008-01-17T05:26:54Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] Besides, isn’t is somewhat elitist to say the show shouldn’t be aired to the general public because you paid for a premium channel to see it a few seasons ago? That is like saying they shouldn’t broadcast the movie National Treasure because I paid good money to see it in a movie theater a few years ago and would have waited had I known I could see it for free a mere three years later. [/QUOTE] It’s true. I’m an elitist of a most unapologetic variety. Also? Cheap. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-to-air-on-cbs/433352.md?page=2)