Station yanks Hannibal because of what it deems excessive violence.
KSL-Ch. 5 is pulling the NBC show “Hannibal” from its schedule.
“After this last week’s episode, it just had too much graphic content for us,” said Tami Ostmark, KSL’s vice president of marketing, research and promotion, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “It was just too bloody and violent.”
“This is beyond anything we’ve put on our station before,” she added. “This is too graphic to be on regular TV. It should be a cable show. We’ve talked to NBC, and that’s how we feel about it.”
“Hannibal” is a prequel to the movie “Silence of the Lambs,” a “R” rated movie that came out in 1991. In the movie a young FBI cadet teams up with a killer to catch another killer.
KSL previously declined to air NBC’s “Playboy Club” and “New Normal,” and doesn’t air “Saturday Night Live,” according to Variety.
