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All Things ‘Ghostbusters’ Leaving Netflix in March, Including “The Real Ghostbusters”
Looking back through our archives, Netflix added animated series “The Real Ghostbusters” to their streaming library just about two years ago, and we’re now bummed to discover courtesy of Netflix’s newsletter for March 2019 that the beloved series is soon leaving the service.
All 116 episodes currently available to stream will be gone on March 31, 2019.
The series ran from September 1986 to October 1991. Seven seasons aired in total, with the show being renamed “Slimer! And the Real Ghostbusters” starting with the fourth season. In total, there were 140 episodes in the series, so Netflix hadn’t been streaming *all* of them.
“The Real Ghostbusters” follows the continuing adventures of the four Ghostbusters, their secretary Janine, their accountant Louis, and their friendly mascot Slimer, as they chase and capture rogue spirits around New York City and various other areas of the world.
On March 1st, Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 are also leaving Netflix.
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‘Hannibal’ Returns to Netflix This July With All Three Seasons of Bryan Fuller’s Brilliant Series
One of the all-time saddest TV cancellations for horror fans came when NBC pulled the plug on the Bryan Fuller-created “Hannibal” after just three seasons back in 2015, leaving the fates of Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) quite literally hanging off a cliff. Fuller has been keeping hope alive for the return of “Hannibal” for the past ten plus years, but to date, the series has not been able to crawl its way back from the dead.
But “Hannibal” is at least returning to Netflix this Summer…
All three seasons of “Hannibal” will be streaming on Netflix July 27, 2026.
The hope from fans has always been that a streaming service like Netflix will bring “Hannibal” back to life, and it certainly wouldn’t hurt if a whole lot of fans stream the existing three seasons whenever they pop up on the service. What’s the latest update on a potential return?
Bryan Fuller told Bloody Disgusting’s Horror Queers podcast late last year, “Everybody wants to return. Hugh [Dancy], and Mads [Mikkelsen], definitely. But also Lawrence Fishburne, Katie Isabelle, Caroline Dhavernas, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Aaron Abrams, and Scott [Thompson] all want to come back to the story.”
“Right now, it’s a little complicated since Martha de Laurentiis‘ passing. The rights are in the process of reversion to Thomas Harris. MGM/Amazon has some,” Fuller explained. “They’re all being navigated in a way that is going to be a little trickier to iron out now. They’re in process, and I keep on touching base and trying to encourage folks to get back together.”
Fuller continued in his chat with the Horror Queers last year, “I’ve talked a little bit about wanting to do a The Silence of the Lambs adaptation, which may be free of certain obligations to include Gaumont [International Television], who is the studio on Hannibal. You can’t copyright a performance, you know? So there are things that we’re trying to figure out if we can get away with that would make it an easier path that might shake the possibilities loose of things that we might be hindered from doing at this point, given the status of the rights.”
For now, keep streaming “Hannibal.” And keep the hope alive. #RenewHannibal
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