By this time last year, NBC TV series "Hannibal" starring Mads Mikkelsen in title role and Hugh Dancy as Will Graham, has already aired a number of episodes of its second season.
This year, it is totally different. Its third season is not yet here. This is because the "Hannibal" season 3 premiere was moved to summer, June 4 to be exact. Surely, this move by the network and the show has frustrated many followers. Nothing left to do for them though but to be more patient.
While waiting for the "Hannibal" season 3 premiere is definitely a tough task, fans might want to rejoice once they learn what was the real reason why it was moved.
In an interview with Digital Spy, series developer Bryan Fuller said they decided to air the pilot of the show on the first week of June because this run will be their most ambitious and they are making sure all episodes will come out great.
"We barely, by the skin of our teeth, were able to produce the first two seasons with a lot of hard work, and a lot of people bending over backwards and contorting, because it's so hard to do a crafted television show in eight days [per episode]," Fuller said.
"It was eight-day episodes, and then an additional day or two of second unit, and massive overtime. But coming into the third season, which is our most ambitious yet, it was essentially trying to squeeze all of that into seven days, with no second unit, and it blew up in everybody's faces."
Fuller hinted "Hannibal" season 3 premiere episode, and then the next ones, will be better because they put in every scene that is supposed to be there.
"And I'd been squawking about that for four months, saying we're in trouble, and then finally after four months we realised where we were and had to push back, because the show wasn't done," he said.
"I don't mind a summer schedule at all, and it actually allowed us to fix our mistakes, of trying to simplify how we were producing the show, which was misguided."
