Why CBS’ ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Sequel ‘Clarice’ Can’t Mention Hannibal Lecter by Name
Buffalo Bill and Catherine Martin are fair game, and play a large role in the seriesTim Baysinger | February 10, 2021 @ 8:26 AM Last Updated: February 10, 2021 @ 12:32 PM
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CBS’ “Silence of the Lambs” sequel “Clarice” won’t get to mention one of its most famous characters by name because of rights issues.
Despite taking place a year after the events of “Silence of the Lambs,” the CBS series will not mention Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic serial killer memorably played by Anthony Hopkins in the 1991 film.
The rights to Thomas Harris’ characters are split between MGM and the Dino De Laurentiis Company. “Clarice” showrunner Elizabeth Klaviter explained that CBS only has the rights for characters introduced in Harris’ 1988 novel “Silence of the Lambs.” Unfortunately, since Lecter’s first appearance came in another Harris
The Most and Least Watched Post-Super Bowl TV Shows, From ‘Friends’ to ‘Alias’ | Chart
TheWrap crunches 34 years of data for the most-coveted time slot on all of televisionTony Maglio | February 9, 2021 @ 10:51 AM Last Updated: February 9, 2021 @ 11:01 AM
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Season in and season out, the Super Bowl is the most-watched broadcast across all of television for the calendar year. (Yes, even this year, when Super Bowl LV posted relatively unimpressive numbers.) That means it’s also the best lead-in of the year the kind that can propel the latest reboot of “The Equalizer” north of 20 million total viewers.
The Queen Latifah-led drama an adaptation of the Denzel Washington movies, which themselves were an update of a 1980s CBS series drew a 5.1 rating in the key demo and 20.4 million total viewers. Those Nielsen numbers were down from 2020’s post-Super Bowl “Masked Singer” Season 3 premiere episode and are pretty poor, historicall