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Peter Capaldi Joins Amazon’s “The Devil’s Hour” as a Murderous Nomad
If you’re a fan of “Sherlock” and “Dracula”, Hartswood Films, the British company behind both, is next waking up in the middle of “The Devil’s Hour”, which Amazon has already begun casting.
“From the mind of rising British writer Tom Moran, “The Devil’s Hour” is a UK original that tells the story of a woman who wakes up every night at exactly 3.33 am, in the middle of the so-called devil’s hour between 3 am and 4 am.”
“Lucy Chambers’ eight-year-old son is withdrawn and emotionless. Her mother speaks to empty chairs. Her house is haunted by the echoes of a life that isn’t her own. Now, when her name is inexplicably connected to a string of brutal murders in the area, the answers that have evaded her all these years will finally come into focus.”
“Patrick Melrose’s” Jessica Raine plays the lead, while “Doctor Who” and Suicide Squad‘s Peter Capaldi, pictured above, stars as a reclusive nomad, driven by a murderous obsession, reports Deadline. “He becomes the prime target of a police manhunt led by compassionate detective Ravi Dhillon, played by Nikesh Patel, who recently featured in HBO Max/BBC Three comedy “Starstruck”, adds the site.
Other cast includes Meera Syal (Yesterday), Alex Ferns (Chernobyl), Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Barbara Marten (Sanctuary), Thomas Dominique (Blood Drive), Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty, John Alastair (Swimming with Men), Sandra Huggett (Coronation Street) and newcomer Benjamin Chivers.
Johnny Allan is directing after helming episodes of Netflix’s “The Irregulars”. Filming is underway in London and Farnborough Studios.
Jessica Raine pictured in Showtime’s “Patrick Melrose”
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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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