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The most recent episode of Hannibal was pretty much the middle act of the Red Dragon film. It was familiar and fans of the Hannibal Lecter canon will most likely be familiar with most of it. Bringing the show to the small screen is never without its differences to remix something new to a story a lot of people know. While there were some moments between Graham and Bedelia, the Dolarhyde story was pretty much the same up until he goes to see the Blake painting.  In the film's he never runs into Graham there but they did that here. Even though the encounter was brief, it was a welcome change in episode that may have been a little too repetitive of an old story. If the people at NBC saw these and thought it might be too much more of a story that has been told, before they made their decision to end the last season, they should have been more patient.

       I read over the weekend that my least favorite network is making a pilot for a TV series based on the Scream films, I can't think of any film to TV stories that were very successful in the past so I'm wondering how that's a good move?  I know it can work the other way around, I think The X Files did it in the 90's and I know people liked what was done with Serenity since Fire Fly had a following.  Even old school TV shows get made into decent films like Mission Impossible, that did well enough to earn a few sequels after the original one.           I watched the pilot for Zombieland : The Series last weekend, if you haven't read by now its reviews are mixed at best.  I didn't like it, it seemed rushed, cheap and the casting of Tallahassee the character Woody Harrelson played in the film was very disappointing in the series.  I read when the film was released that it was intentionally ...