Bad News, 'Hannibal' Fans: Both Amazon and Netflix Have Passed on Picking Up a Season 4

The cult favorite NBC show just took a major loss in its battle for renewal.

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Hannibal the cannibal is still singing for his supper. Bryan Fuller's beloved adaptation series is haunting, beautiful, repulsive and engrossing, a true work of art especially given its broadcast network home. It also pulls in consistently trash ratings. So it was no surprise when NBC finally pulled the plug two weeks ago. But Hannibal's cult fanbase immediately held out hope that the series would be adopted by a cable network or, better yet, a streaming entity not beholden to ratings like Netflix (whose Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was originally NBC's Tooken).

Welp, so much for optimism: Fuller tweeted yesterday that Netflix and Amazon have both passed on the opportunity to pick the show up for a fourth season.

As far as fan favorite survival odds go, Hannibal is beginning to look even shakier than Jon Snow. In the meantime, season three will air in full Thursdays on NBC, the back half of which will focus on the highly anticipated Red Dragon storyline. Fuller also told Entertainment Weekly that, while he's still negotiating the rights to Clarice Starling, he has a "radical plan" for season four that doesn't hinge upon her character and the Silence of the Lambs arc. Assuming season four even happens, smh. Yahoo Screen, anyone?

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