United Kingdom, July 12 -- Michael C. Hall admits that Dexter "keeps pulling me back in".

The 54-year-old star has reprised his role as serial killer Dexter Morgan in the new Showtime spin-off Dexter: Resurrection and says that he couldn't resist the urge to revisit the character, even though he was seemingly shot dead in the series Dexter: New Blood.

Michael told Deadline: "Like, Al Pacino and the mafia. It just keeps pulling me back in, I think.

"When we finished the series proper and Dexter put himself into self-imposed exile, I knew we may well be revisiting him at some point to find out what the hell happened to him.

"When New Blood ended, I had a more definitive sense that it was the end, and I think the character did too. He th...