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DR. CHILTON'S RETURN GIVES A GLIMPSE INTO THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED HANNIBAL'S BRUTAL ATTACK -- RAÚL ESPARZA, GINA TORRES, JOE ANDERSON AND KATHERINE ISABELLE GUEST STAR -- Watch the clip after the Jump... Click HERE to watch the clip. After surviving a disfiguring gunshot, Dr. Fredrick Chilton (guest star Raúl Esparza ) is now focused on rallying support to capture Hannibal ( Mads Mikkelsen ), using Will ( Hugh Dancy ) as bait. Jack ( Laurence Fishburne ) is distracted by Bella's (guest star Gina Torres ) failing health, but he implores Will to abandon the risky idea of finding Hannibal. Meanwhile, Alana Bloom ( Caroline Dhavernas ) entertains a different approach, potentially partnering with Mason Verger (guest star Joe Anderson ) to utilize his vast resources. Glenn Fleshler also guest stars. Please Leave A Comment-

Buzzfeed is reporting Hannibal is done. Currently in its third season on NBC, the critically praised, little watched Hannibal has been canceled. Though the show has never been a mass hit, NBC has renewed it twice before because Hannibal has been inexpensive to license (because of international sales and a VOD deal). It has also drawn a fanatically devoted cult audience. Nonetheless, airing as a summer offering, Season 3 has hit series lows. Thursday’s episode drew 1.8 million viewers and a .5 in the 18 to 49 demographic. Season 3 is 13 episodes, and a spokesman for NBC confirmed that the show will air in full throughout the summer. Hannibal, created by Bryan Fuller, stars Hugh Dancy as Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter. Critics have complimented its aesthetics and thoughtful approach to violence throughout its run. A statement from Fuller praised NBC, and also left the door open for the show to try to find another home. “NBC has allowed us to craft a televisi

WILL GRAHAM ENCOUNTERS A POSSIBLE ALLY IN HIS SEARCH FOR HANNIBAL LECTER -- Will Graham ( Hugh Dancy ) continues his search for Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen ), making his way to Hannibal's childhood home in Lithuania. Once there he meets the mysterious Chiyoh ( Tao Okamoto ), former attendant to Hannibal's aunt. Meanwhile, Jack Crawford ( Laurence Fishburne ) arrives in Italy, hoping to find Will and intervene before tragedy strikes again, and Bedelia ( Gillian Anderson ) warns Hannibal against unraveling his new life. Watch all the clips after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

Ever since word broke earlier this year that The X-Files will be re-opened for a limited run next year, you’ve been wondering how Mulder and Scully will look in the new six-episode series. Well, given that we know what David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson look like, it’s not hard to guess, but here comes photographic evidence courtesy of the series’ official Twitter account . Yes, it’s not the typically glamorous studio shot or posed set photo we’re used to – this is taken from a monitor on the production. But it’s enough to see that Mulder appears to have let himself go in the years since the second film, while Scully still dresses like she belongs in the FBI. Quite where we’ll find them and what they’ll be up to is another matter, but we do know that Mitch Pileggi is also back and that Joel McHale (who has been posting less-than spoiler-filled tweets of his own from the shoot) will be aboard, playing the anchor of an internet news service who becomes an unlikely ally for Mulde

PRIMAVERA (TV-14) WILL GRAHAM SETS OFF ON A SEARCH FOR HANNIBAL LECTER Watch the clip after the Jump... With his wounds now healed, Will Graham ( Hugh Dancy ) heads to Europe eight months after the horrific event that almost took his life, in search of closure with Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen ). Following a hunch, Will arrives in Palermo, Italy to find a disturbing gift. Will's arrival draws suspicion from Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi (guest star Fortunato Cerlino ), who twenty years earlier pursued a Florentine killer known as "Il Mostro" and, after reading Will's file, believes that Hannibal Lecter and "Il Mostro" are one and the same. Pazzi tries to enlist Will's help in catching Hannibal, but Will warns that he is unsure of where his own allegiance lies. Please Leave A Comment-

Dr. Lecter’s meal finally arrives after a long wait. Review by Brandon Wolfe Hannibal was one of last year’s many great television surprises. Like Fargo , it was a show that shouldn’t have worked, based on source material that didn’t seem like it would bend to the rigors of serialized television. The fact that it aired on NBC, a network that didn’t seem possible would, or could, ever go whole-hog on the sort of gruesomely explicit content one expects from any story featuring Hannibal Lecter, only made the series’ prospects seem even dimmer. But, after a solid yet not exquisite first season, Hannibal caught fire in its sophomore year, crafting a season as twisty and unpredictable as it was unprecedentedly gory by broadcast standards. Hannibal became this strange fever dream for its fans. We saw it with our own two eyes, but it didn’t seem real. How could it be this good? The series has been off the air for over a year now, its finale , airing the May before last, leaving the bul

Having successfully escaped FBI capture, Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen ) is moving through the European landscape, with Bedelia Du Maurier ( Gillian Anderson ) in tow. But Dr. Lecter's old habits and opulent tastes are still on display as he settles into a new identity and life in Florence, Italy, working at the Palazzo Capponi museum. Glimpses into the past help inform his relationship with Bedelia, a pairing not clearly defined as friend or foe. Tom Wisdom and Jeremy Crutchley also guest star. Watch the First Look HERE . Watch Clips from the show HERE . Please Leave A Comment-

HANNIBAL IS ON THE RUN - EDDIE IZZARD AND ZACHARY QUINTO GUEST STAR. Having successfully escaped FBI capture, Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen ) is moving through the European landscape, with Bedelia Du Maurier ( Gillian Anderson ) in tow. But Dr. Lecter's old habits and opulent tastes are still on display as he settles into a new identity and life in Florence, Italy, working at the Palazzo Capponi museum. Glimpses into the past help inform his relationship with Bedelia, a pairing not clearly defined as friend or foe. Tom Wisdom and Jeremy Crutchley also guest star. Bedelia In Florence Watch all the clips after the Jump... The Curator Once Upon A Time A New Hannibal Please Leave A Comment-

Mulder Wants Back on the Case In a follow-up to the recent report that Fox intends on dusting off The X-Files in the near future, USA Today has revealed that David Duchovny, who starred on the series for seven of its nine seasons as Agent Fox Mulder, is open to reprising his role for the revival. Duchovny stated that he is "more than happy and excited to bring it back and do it again with (co-star) Gillian (Anderson) and (series creator) Chris (Carter)." The actor went on to say "I'm assuming that it will happen sooner rather than later now. We'll see what form, how many (episodes). Certainly I can't nor would I be interested in doing a full season. It will be in some kind of limited form. We're all old, we don't have the energy for a full season." Duchovny’s availability could be an obstacle. He will appear on the upcoming NBC series Aquarius , while Anderson has recently been upgraded to a series regular on NBC’s Hannibal . But this n

The Reboot is Out There In what has seemed like an inevitability for some time now, plans have begun at 20th Century Fox to launch a reboot of its iconic ‘90s megahit The X-Files . According to Deadline , Fox TV Group chairman Gary Newman has confirmed that talks have taken place to bring the sci-fi series back to the airwaves, and that he was “hopeful” about the prospect of it happening. Series creator Chris Carter alluded to the possibility of a reboot last summer, though his level of involvement in the new series has yet to be determined. Also unclear is how much of a role, if any, original series stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson might have. One suspects the network will want a new, younger crop of FBI agents investigating phenomena. The X-Files aired on Fox from 1993-2002 and was among the defining television series of the Clinton era, garnering huge ratings and spawning two feature films. The second film, 2008’s I Want To Believe , was a box-office failure and se

TV Review: Crisis “How Far Would You Go” By: Brandon Wolfe As usual, a lot happened on ‘ Crisis ’ this week, while at the same time not much happened. The show is good at keeping the wheels spinning while never attaining any actual forward motion, like a car stuck in the mud. Fred Dryer’s villainous CIA operative has made good on his threat to seize Meg (and Gillian Anderson’s hilariously crazed cry of “This can’t happen!” indicates that ‘Crisis’ has officially broken even her down to the level of horrific acting) and demands that Dunn and Finley hand Clarenbach over to him if they want Meg left alive. Clarenbach obviously bristles at this and announces to the agents that Gibson is the kidnapper and that all of this boils down to a war between Gibson and Director Widener, which Clarenbach as the pawn both of them seek. Dunn decides that she will go after Meg while Finley uses Clarenbach to go after Gibson. But Gibson, as always, has his own plan and reaches out to one of the par

TV Review: Crisis “Homecoming” By: Brandon Wolfe Picking up the exact moment we left off last week, Finley and Dunn answer the cell phone conveniently left by Gibson for, I guess, this very occasion. Gibson, his voice disguised, is on the other end and Finley and Dunn attempt to reason with him. Finley asks about a Station Orange code he picked up earlier from the soldiers, which Gibson seems thrown by but makes a note of. Finley and Dunn then attempt to make a deal with Gibson: Stop using the parents to do his dirty work and use them instead. He agrees to this, and will call back later with their first assignment. Finley and Dunn have trepidation about this arrangement, but agree that if one tells the other they’re crossing a line, they’ll stop. Before long, they are handed their initial set of marching orders and are ordered to retrieve a man who is being held at a certain location, for which they are provided an address and nothing further. On their way out, Dunn encounters her

TV Review: Crisis “Here He Comes” By: Brandon Wolfe It’s Day 5 of the kidnapping and Finley and Dunn are hatching a plan to use the materials recovered from Jonas Clarenbach’s house as bait to lure the kidnappers out into the open. Playing on a hunch that the kidnappers have tapped into the cameras present at the regular meetings the FBI is holding with the parents of the taken children, Finley and Dunn play for the cameras and mention the recovered files and where they can be found. Gibson, of course, sees this and dispatches his senior henchman, Koz, to leave his post guarding the captured soldiers and investigate the files, winning Koz over when he mentions that Finley will be present and that Koz can take his revenge on him for the murder of his brother in the pilot episode. Dunn, meanwhile, receives a text from a blocked number from someone stating that they know she is Amber’s mother and that she will help them out. Dunn, after some initial reluctance, fills Finley in on this

TV Review: Crisis "Designated Allies" By: Brandon Wolfe Francis Gibson contacts his wife Janice via a cell phone stashed in the cupboard in the kitchen and, using a distorted voice to retain anonymity, instructs her to invite CIA Director Widener to come to the house so that she can poison him. As has been the case with all the parents on this show thus far, she complies with very little hesitation. When Widener arrives, he expresses his condolences to Janice over the kidnapping of her daughter and husband, but is able to quickly figure out what is going on and refuses the tea she presents him. However, Gibson, in accordance with villain law, intended this to happen and it was all part of the plan. His real goal was to get Widener’s guard down, using the clear attraction the director has to Janice as bait to allow Gibson’s team the time to remotely hack Widener’s phone for security access. Finley and Dunn learn that the soldiers recovered from the Pakistani embass

TV Review: Crisis “We Were Supposed to Help Each Other” By: Brandon Wolfe ‘ Crisis ’ continues to be a complete failure at everything it attempts to do. It’s a thriller that isn’t thrilling, involving characters we do not care about in a story that doesn’t seem worth the telling. The show moves with a constant urgency that exists only onscreen, not in the viewer. It’s biting its own nails while we at home are stifling yawns. Kidnapping ringmaster Francis Gibson is using more powerful parents as tools to do his bidding. This week, he’s enlisted Congressman Langston Wirth, his wife Marie, and Senator Mason Yarrow in a plan to wrest information from the CIA headquarters in Langley in exchange for their children’s freedom. Using their high-level government access, the parents are able to get their hands on a highly classified flash drive from within the CIA vault and, using the threat of a phony bomb vest, get it outside to be transmitted via cell phone, a process that costs th

TV Review: Crisis “If You Are Reading This I am Dead” By: Brandon Wolfe In its premiere episode, ‘Crisis’ worked up quite a sweat in kicking off its convoluted premise, and if anything, the series gets even sweatier in its second outing. This is a show that is positively breaking its neck in about ten different places to take us on a ride that isn’t anywhere near as exciting or interesting as it thinks it is. We resume with Gillian Anderson’s Meg Fitch, who has been blackmailed by kidnapping ringmaster Francis Gibson to produce $20 million in exchange for the release of Amber, her daughter (who is secretly her niece, because this show is enamored with twists destined to be met with a shrug). Meg takes the money to a designated location, but instead of being presented with Amber, she instead receives a proof-of-life photo of Amber. FBI agent Susie Dunn is interrogating Secret Service agent Marcus Finley over his potential involvement in the kidnapping, since his surviva