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Hannibal is back and the cast and crew are celebrating by wearing floral crowns

9 September 2013 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

I do love Hannibal. Clearly the best new series this year, it’s clever, disturbing, beautiful to look at and filled with wonderful dialogue. I’d recommend getting it on Blu-Ray in the US, at least (extra features: Commentary from the Cast and Crew, Gag Reel, Deleted Scenes, Unrated Episodes, Symphony of a Slaughter), although it’s not such an obvious buy in the UK (extra features: First Look Featurette, Forensics 101 Featurette).

Thankfully, despite getting some really crappy ratings in the US on NBC, it’s been renewed for a second season and filming is just about to begin. So everybody in the cast and crew is celebrating… by wearing floral crowns.

Mads Mikkelson in a floral crown

More pictures after the jump.

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Monday’s “Cynthia Nixon joins Hannibal, a trailer for Atlantis and Shivers to be remade”

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Film

Film casting

Trailer

  • Trailer for Richard Ayoade’s The Double, with Jesse Eisenberg

Comics

UK TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • Trailer for HBO’s True Detective, with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson
  • Fox developing: tiger parents comedy
  • USA orders: Matt Nix’s Complications
  • Tim Kring adapting Dorothy Must Die for The CW

New US TV show casting

  • Candice Bergen and Charles Grodin to play Michael J Fox’s parents on NBC’s The Michael J Fox Show
  • Simon Merrells to recur on The CW’s The Tomorrow People
  • Greg Germann to co-star on Lifetime’s HR, Ravi Patel to recur on ABC’s Super Fun Night
  • Chris Egan and Alan Dale to star in SyFy’s Dominion
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What audience is the Hannibal Blu-Ray targeted at?

2 September 2013 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

So I got my copy of the first season of Hannibal through the post today (buy it, it’s brilliant, even if there are only a couple of extra features on the Blu-Rays). Like most Blu-Rays and DVDs, it contains recommendations from critics on the cover:

Hannibal UK Blu-Ray

The recommendation says:

“The scariest, most compelling TV chiller for years”

Indeed. But who’s it from?

Hannibal - as recommended by Heat

Yes, Heat magazine. Hmm. Are the readers of Heat really the best target audience for Hannibal? Or have the marketers merely noticed that Hannibal airs on Sky Living in the UK and assumes that the show will be beloved by the same people who watch America’s Next Top Model?