John Lithgow calls Showtime's Dexter revival a "reimagination" like HBO's Perry Mason

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Lithgow only filmed one for one day -- "in fact, one afternoon," he says. But when he arrived for the shoot, he tells Deadline he was excited to learn about the story the revival is telling. “I learned that it’s completely different from (the original series). Kind of like Perry Mason, it’s a reimagination,” says Lithgow, who was speaking about earning an Emmy nomination for Perry Mason. “They don’t take it into a different era, but it’s in a different part of the world, a different part of the country, and a whole new cast of characters.”