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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-

Will Graham is out for...vengeance? Review by Brandon Wolfe Hannibal continues to ease us slowly into its third season like a warm bath. Last week , we caught up with Hannibal and Bedelia on their dreamy – or nightmarish – European excursion, and now we are brought up to speed on Will and Abigail Hobbs. After a replay of last season’s drawn-out, stab-filled climax, Will awakens in a hospital bed to find Abigail greeting him with a large bandage on her neck. She claims that Hannibal knew how to slash her with such surgical precision as to leave her alive, yet despite that, she still claims loyalty to him. She wants to track him down not out of vengeance, but to reunite with the compelling man whose fate seems so powerfully intertwined with her own. Will claims to want the vengeance, but one wonders if there’s not a bit of that longing in him as well. These two men have a very complex relationship, after all. Eight months later, Will and Abigail arrive at the church in Italy where H

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-

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-

TV Review: Hannibal “Mizumono” By: Brandon Wolfe The one inevitability of Hannibal Lecter’s mythology is that he winds up incarcerated. It is how the character is thought of in popular culture, taunting and assessing from behind a barrier. In the season premiere, when we are shown that future tease of Jack Crawford engaging Hannibal in that brutal fight, we concluded that the jig was up. When we would finally arrive at that moment, the genie would be out of the bottle. There could be no going back to Hannibal the friend, Hannibal the consultant, Hannibal the psychiatrist. Regardless of how grim Jack’s situation seemed to look, this would be the moment where Hannibal Lecter ceased to be a free man. And now, having seen the season finale, the show has made fools of us yet again. Hannibal Lecter will find his way into that jail cell one day, but that day is still ahead of him. And what he leaves in his wake is a bloodbath so grand and unimaginable that had the show not been renewed,

TV Review: Hannibal “Tome-Wan” By: Brandon Wolfe ‘ Hannibal ’ has always felt like the ‘ Red Dragon ’ show. It may precede the events of that story, but the presence of Will Graham has always linked it to that particular Hannibal Lecter tale. The link is compounded further by the fact that the 2002 film version of ‘Red Dragon’ opens with a prologue of Will consulting with Hannibal on a case, the only time we ever saw the Anthony Hopkins version of the character in a position similar to the Mads Mikkelsen interpretation. Which is why watching the show abruptly shift its focus so sharply to the events of the ‘Hannibal’ novel and subsequent film adaptation has been a bit jarring. The decision isn’t without logic. Hannibal Lecter’s initial encounters with Mason Verger preceded his incarceration, which would put it in roughly this timeline. But as viewers who are aware that ‘Hannibal’ came last as a novel, all the references and allusions to it in this prequel feel like putting the car

TV Review: Hannibal “Ko No Mono” By: Brandon Wolfe The degree to which the Vergers have taken over ‘Hannibal’ so quickly is a bit strange. The characters, who have a rightful place in the Hannibal Lecter mythos, are interesting ones to add into the mix, especially since they were late additions to Thomas Harris’ written universe and we are still at a point before even the events of ‘Red Dragon’ have occurred. Katharine Isabelle and Michael Pitt are doing fine work as the twisted siblings, and Pitt in particular adds a manic, animated note to the show that definitely stands out among the solemnity of the rest of the cast. But it feels like too much, too fast. Maybe if the characters had lingered in the background longer this season, their sudden ascension wouldn’t have felt so jarring. But we only officially met Mason last week and he’s already in therapy sessions with Hannibal (as all psychos on this show inevitably are). What’s more, Margot is already pregnant with Will’s love c

TV Review: Hannibal “Naka-Choko” By: Brandon Wolfe ‘ Hannibal ’ has been in the ratings cellar since Day 1, and though executive producer Bryan Fuller has proclaimed a hearty optimism for it continuing on beyond this year, on NBC or not, the show has behaved this season like a series that lives only for now, with no eye out toward the future. Major characters die, seemingly impossible character reversals take place, and it plays like a show blowing itself up today because it doesn’t know if it will be around tomorrow. So daring has ‘Hannibal’ become on a routine basis that I genuinely have no clue not only what it will do next week, but especially what it will do next year. For a show that started life as a more gruesome, more artfully shot network procedural, it has become a truly unpredictable high-wire act. You would possibly have to go back to ‘Twin Peaks’ to find the last time a network series broke this many rules. Will Graham’s rededication to Hannibal Lecter since being r

TV Review: Hannibal “Shiizakana” By: Brandon Wolfe The battle of wills between Will and Hannibal is creating one of the more unique character dynamics presently on television. Here are two adversaries constantly circling each other, yet with each too fascinated by the other to strike. Hannibal’s preoccupation with Will has been a linchpin of the series from the start, and it’s not surprising that he continues to view his patient as a chemistry set in human form, a test subject to study the volatility of in reaction to whichever elements he chooses to introduce. But Will’s reaction to Hannibal is truly intriguing. He loathes the man, wants him dead, yet can’t stop himself from showing up at the doctor’s office for regular appointments where he can prod the man for any insight he can glean about his actions. The need each man possesses to understand what drives the other is not like any other TV relationship I can think of. It’s like if Batman took to hanging out with the Joker all the

TV Review: Hannibal “Su-Zakana” By: Brandon Wolfe ‘ Hannibal ’ has been so relentlessly active thus far in its second season that it hasn’t really stopped to take a breath in quite some time. However, with the Chesapeake Ripper arc brought to a close last week, the show now needs to switch gears into what will propel the second half of the season, and “Su-Zakana” is very much a transitional episode. Jack and Will are ice fishing and having a loaded conversation about the appetites of fish and how best to lure them, suggesting that Hannibal is still very much at the forefront of Will’s thoughts. The fish they catch, it turns out, wind up as the main course for a dinner between the three men at Hannibal’s home, allowing Will to make sure there will be no mystery to the meat this time. Will claims to now be convinced of Hannibal’s innocence for Jack’s benefit, but he does not do a terrific job of veiling his contempt for Dr. Lecter. Hannibal, meanwhile, is still sleeping wi

TV Review: Hannibal “Yakimono” By: Brandon Wolfe Bryan Fuller’s ‘ Hannibal ’ has quietly become one of television’s finest shows. Taking the characters from Thomas Harris’ series of novels, the show functions as a prequel to the events of the initial novel, ‘ Red Dragon ’ (which was adapted with style by Michael Mann in 1986’s ‘ Manhunter ’ and with bare-bones competence by Brett Ratner in 2002’s ‘ Red Dragon ’), setting up the working relationship that cannibalistic, yet refined, serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen ) had with FBI profiler Will Graham ( Hugh Dancy ) before the latter put the former in prison. Not unlike its titular character, ‘Hannibal’ is essentially a cable series wearing the skin of a network series. It’s daring and challenging in ways few network shows have the stones to attempt. It is also one of the best-looking shows currently on television and almost certainly the goriest in network history. Week after week, the series gets away with horrificall

Lea Michele To Lend Voice For Animated Wizard Of Oz Film Summertime Entertainment's animated 3D musical " Dorothy of Oz " has snagged Lea Michele of "Glee" to voice the lead part and provide vocals on several original musical numbers. " Dorothy " marks Michele's first work in features following Broadway roles in "Spring Awakening" and "Les Misérables" and the breakout success of "Glee." Story, penned by Randi Barnes, Adam Balsam and Barry Glasser, is an update on " The Wizard of Oz " and centers on Dorothy Gale returning to a tornado-devastated Kansas and then being transported back to Oz to help her friends. Jim Belushi as the Lion Dan Aykroyd as the Scarecrow Kelsey Grammer as the Tin Man Oliver Platt as Wiser the Owl Megan Hilty as the China Princess Hugh Dancy as as Marshall Mallow Martin Short as the Jester -- Dorothy's arch-nemesis. Bryan Adams is writing the first songs and lyr