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DC’s “Deathstroke” Gets His Own Animated Series at CW Seed; ‘Saw’ Producers Make “The Pledge”
CW has their own digital platform now and it’s called CW Seed.
Deadline reports that, during the CW upfront presentation, the network’s President Mark Pedowitz unveiled two upcoming series for CW Seed, animated series “Deathstroke”, centered on the DC superhero, and “The Pledge”, which comes from the producers of the SAW horror franchise.
The announcement of the “Deathstroke” animated series follows the introduction of the character, the fan-favorite assassin and archenemy of “Teen Titans” leader Dick Grayson, on the live-action DC Universe series Titans, where he is played by Esai Morales.
The character is well known to fans of the popular “Teen Titans” animated series from Cartoon Network as well as the show’s 2018 tie-in feature film “Teen Titans Go! to the Movies”. Deathstroke has also been portrayed by Manu Bennett in 36 episodes of The CW series “Arrow” while Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”) appeared as the assassin in the 2017 feature film Justice League but only with an uncredited cameo.
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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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