'Hannibal' Producer Martha De Laurentiis Says Piracy Helped Kill The Show

There are those who will argue that Bryan Fuller’s mad, operatic “Hannibal” ended exactly as it should have, even though it probably could have gone for at least another season or two. The reasons for the show’s cancellation have been widely debated among fans but it likely didn't help that the self-consciously arty and visually transgressive (and yes, brilliant) work of art was juggled between timeslots by NBC, who aired it Thursday nights during the first season, moved it to Fridays to season two, and then tossed it between Thursday and Saturday for the third. While Fuller has teased “Hannibal” fanatics with ideas for what a potential fourth season would entail, it unfortunately does not appear that we’ll be playing catch-up with everyone’s favorite people-eating psychologist on the small screen any time soon.

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One of the show’s producers, Martha De Laurentiis, has just recently...