Looks Like Hannibal is Back

It looks like NBC has found something to fill the Thursday night drama spot that has been vacant since hit show ER left the air. While other big time producers are coming out with more comedic upbeat shows such as ABC How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) and The Neighbors, NBC has decided to take a more grim outlook with their new show Hannibal.  At it's premiere last thursday, this cops and cannibals caper drew in about 4.36 million viewers and about 1.6 in the demo which compared to this time slots last occupant showed a 78% improvement. With NBC's unsuccessful track record in it's last four seasons in this notorious 10pm bracket, they hope that Hannibal will reestablish NBC's "iron clad stability" that they had from 1981-2009 with shows such as L.A Law and ER.  It should be really interesting to see how this new show does seeing as it will likely have a very unique story line that I'm sure people will be curious and drawn too. Also it will be interesting to see how this show affects it's competition such as Big Bang Theory and NCIS that also air at this time. 

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