I can exclusively break the news that Hannibal, the new TV series based on the movie Silence of the Lambs is coming to South African and that this new drama series will start on Sony Entertainment Television (DStv 127) on Tuesday 23 April at 20:55.
Sony Entertainment Television just told me the starting date of the new TV drama which started filming in July last year without a pilot episode - Hannibal was picked up straight to series for a first season of 13 episodes.
Mads Mikkelsen will be seen in the role of the cannibalistic serial killer dr. Hannibal Lecter and Hugh Dancy plays special agent Will Graham and criminal profiler who hunts serial killers on the loose.
Hannibal's starting date was just moved up in America by the NBC network after the dismal failure of the new drama Do No Harm; Hannibal will replace Do No Harm in its timeslot and start in America on Thursday 4 April.
That means that South African viewers will be seeing Hannibal only 3 episodes behind America.
Hannibal for Sony Entertainment Television follows series such as The Firm and the upcoming Saving Hope starting on 4 March on South Africa on SET are all NBC shown drama series which have involvement from Sony through Sony Pictures and Sony Television.
