Exclusive First Look: Pulled "Hannibal" Episode Repackaged as 'Cannibalized' Web Series
by Vlada Gelman
4/24/13


NBC is giving "Hannibal" fans a chance to feast on the show’s fourth episode, which was pulled from the schedule ahead of this week’s airing in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.

The network is incorporating footage from the lost hour into a series of "cannibalized" webisodes that will serve as a narrative bridge between Episode 3 and this Thursday’s Episode 5 (NBC, 10/9c) — and TVLine has an exclusive first look at the debut installment (featuring an introduction from exec producer Bryan Fuller).



As Fuller explains, Ep 4 “details the relationship between Hannibal Lecter and Abigail Hobbs, played by Kacey Rohl,” explains Fuller. “As the series goes on, this relationship gets much more complicated and becomes a load-bearing element of our storytelling. So we wanted to make sure that you have all the scenes to follow the story along.”

In the first part below — more clips will debut on NBC.com — Dr. Lecter has a therapy session with Will Graham, and then secretly inspects the profiler’s home before getting a taste of blood.

http://tvline.com/2013/04/24/hannibal-episode-4-online-web-series-cannibalized/

Unaired "Hannibal" Episode Now Available on iTunes
by Hillary Busis
Apr 30 2013


Having an old friend for dinner tonight? Consider this an appetizer:

The fourth episode of "Hannibal", which was pulled by NBC due to its especially gruesome storyline, is now available to view in its entirety. Series creator Bryan Fuller broke the news on his Twitter account today:

"#HANNIBAL SEES THAT THE UN-AIRED EPISODE ON @NBC IS NOW AVAILABLE ON iTUNES IN ITS ENTIRETY"





The episode — called 'Ceuf' – focuses on a group of children who have been abducted and brainwashed into killing their old families. It was filmed before the shooting at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School last December.

Nevertheless, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the network balked at the episode’s plot and some of its imagery last week. Instead of airing the episode, NBC chose to bump "Hannibal‘s" fifth episode up and repurpose 'Ceuf' as a web series.

Altogether, that series of clips featured the entire episode, minus only some particularly grisly images. The episode available for purchase on iTunes, though, is the original, unbowdlerized — or should we say “cannibalized?” — 'Ceuf'.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/04/30/hannibal-unaired-episode-itunes/

http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-pulling-an-episode-of-hannibal-after-the-bosto,97249/

We’ve been reworking TV shows in response to tragedy for 50 years now. It’s time to stop.