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Sky Living picks up Hannibal

Sky Living has bought the rights to the US serial-killer drama Hannibal, featuring the Hannibal Lecter character from The Silence of the Lambs.

The NBC series features Hugh Dancy as special agent Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in James Bond film Casino Royale, in the title role as the serial killer most famously associated on screen with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Hannibal will also star Gillian Anderson, as Lecter's therapist, and Eddie Izzard, as an inmate at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, along with Laurence Fishburne as the head of the FBI's behavioural sciences unit.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013...ence-fishburne