BREAKING. Hannibal on The Sony Channel on DStv cancelled after 3 seasons, drama series will come to an end in August with no 4th season.

Hannibal on The Sony Channel (DStv 127) on DStv has been cancelled and the current 3rd season finishing in August in America will be its last.

The low-rated and gruesome drama series from Bryan Fuller was based on Hannibal Lecter, the psychiatrist turned serial killer from Thomas Harris' best-selling novels.

Hannibal was co-commissioned by Sony Pictures Television Networks and France's Gaumont International Television and distributed on Sony Television's worldwide TV channels.

Hannibal with Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy will however not see a 4th season on the NBC network in America as its viewership kept plunging and with the drama burning off the episodes of the current 13-episode third season during the American summer when viewers tune out.

The 3rd season of Hannibal which began showing in America two weeks ago has not yet started on the Sony Channel on DStv.

According to The Hollywood Reporter there was an apparent rights issue behind-the-scenes which together with the low ratings spelled the death-knell for Hannibal.

Bryan Fuller wanted to introduce the character of Clarice Starling in Hannibal's possible 4th season but the rights were unavailable.

"NBC has allowed us 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," says Bryan Fuller in a statement.

"We thank Gaumont and everyone involved in the show for their tireless efforts that have made Hannibal an incredible experience," says NBC in a statement.

Sony Max on DStv doing Halloween in October with a first season marathon broadcast of Hannibal; new second season of Freakshow.

Sony Max (DStv 128) is doing a Halloween month for October with special Halloween themed programming, including a marathon broadcast of the first season of Hannibal.

The first season of Hannibal with Mads Mikkelsen and Will Graham will be broadcast on Sony Max, starting on Friday, 31 October at 22:00, and continuing through on Saturday,1 November and Sunday 2 November.

The second season of Freakshow starts on Sony Max on Tuesday 21 October at 21:00. 

The second season of the gameshow Hole in the Wall just started on Mondays at 18:10.

A scary movie on Sony Max is Primal Force on Monday 27 October at 21:00, in which a private plane carrying the daughter of a businessman crash-lands on the uninhabited island of San Miguel off the coast of Mexico, an island the locals regard as cursed.

A rescue mission is dispatched to look for survivors, but the team first has to get past the population of mutant baboons.

Good but gory Hannibal on Sony Entertainment Television (SET) renewed for a 3rd season.

Hannibal seen in South Africa on Sony Entertainment Television (SET) (DStv 124) and currently rolling out new episodes of the second season, has been renewed for a third season in America.

The good but gory Hannibal, is executive produced by Bryan Fuller, with Gaumont International Television and Sony Pictures Television working together.

The dark story follows Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) solving intriguing cases together, before Will and others became aware that Hannibal was actually a cannibalistic serial killer.

BREAKING. Hannibal on Sony Entertainment Television renewed for a second season in America.

The horror thriller crime drama Hannibal currently seen in South Africa on Sony Entertainment Television (DStv 127) with episodes following a few weeks after the Unites States broadcasting date has just been officially renewed for a second season.

The Silence of the Lambs TV drama prequel from Bryan Fuller as writer and executive producer and produced by Gaumont International Television and Sony Pictures Television will see a second season despite struggling somewhat with viewership in the United States as a so-called "bubble series" where it's being shown on the NBC network.

Hannibal is a co-commissioned international show by Sony Pictures Television Networks making this type of American drama series much cheaper to produce than what it would normally cost and now the drama with Hugh Dancy (Will Graham) and Mads Mikkelsel (Hannibal Lecter) will have a second season of 13 episodes in 2014.

"We're so proud of Bryan's vision for a show that is richly textured, psychologically complex, and very compelling," says Jennifer Salke, NBC entertainment president in a just issued press statement. "There are many great stories still to be told."

The second season of Hannibal will focus on the strained relationship between Dr. Hannibal and the criminal profiler Will.

Hannibal on Sony Entertainment Television pulled in America because of its 'extensive graphic nature'.

The new macabre TV drama Hannibal seen on Sony Entertainment Television (DStv 127) in South Africa has been pulled in America due to its "extensive graphic nature".

The American TV station KSL TV which is part of the NBC TV network which shows the new crime drama, has decided to no longer show Hannibal at 21:00.

In a statement KSL TV says "this decision was made due to the extensive graphic nature of this show". The TV station is showing news instead.

Hannibal has been struggling to find viewership and NBC which just announced which shows are cancelled, which are renewed and which are brand-new for the upcoming new TV season, is still undecided about the fate of Hannibal which follows the exploits of the cannibal Hannibal Lecter before the events of the Hannibal movies.

BREAKING. Hannibal, the new TV drama based on the cannibal serial killer, coming to Sony Entertainment Television from 23 April.

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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.