NBC Cancels Hannibal... While New 50 Shades Book Sells Million Copies
Now that’s a headline I never hoped to write. NBC decided not to pick up a fourth season of the critically acclaimed thriller Hannibal, cancelling it after three seasons. The wonderfully dark show managed to make it to three seasons on a network it never was suited for, failing to garner a wide mainstream audience, but the core audience it did manage to acquire is as heartbroken as I am.
And yet, in the same week, the new Fifty Shades of Grey novel, simply titled ‘Grey’, sold one million copies in a span of four days. Yep, humanity and its art, or lack thereof, is shocking. We read and consume filth while real art falls fails to survive, and it’ll probably only get worse.
Can we not have them removed from this earth, or send them to a secluded island, and just let them take selfies of one another while wasting away in a pit of narcissism?
No? Damn.
Meanwhile, Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller released a statement thanking NBC for allowing them to “...craft a television series that no other broadcast network would have dared, and kept us on the air for three seasons despite Cancellation Bear Chow ratings and images that would have shredded the eyeballs of lesser Standards & Practices enforcers.”
And then he decided to make the hearts of all Hannibal diehards stop with the following wonderful sentence: “A hungry cannibal can always dine again.” Yep, we all read a shit load into that are fully convinced that we’ll see the beautifully prepared meals on our screens sooner or later. It gives us hope. Ah, hope. We live and die by it.
Please, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or whatever other possible platform there is, sweep this show up. Put it on the right platform, the platform it needed right from the beginning.
Please. We beg.
