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"NBC&amp;#039;s Jennifer Salke has insisted that a forthcoming Hannibal Lecter TV series will not be &amp;quot;gratuitous&amp;quot;. The network&amp;#039;s President of Entertainment discussed the horror drama - based on Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon - at this year&amp;#039;s TCA press tour, Collider reports.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s very unique,&amp;quot; Salke claimed. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not a shoot &amp;#039;em up show. It&amp;#039;s really difficult to explain because it&amp;#039;s incredibly unique. But it&amp;#039;s not gratuitous, in the way you might be thinking.&amp;quot; Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller is the showrunner on Hannibal, which will star Mads Mikkelsen as the title character and Hugh Dancy as his FBI nemesis Will Graham. &amp;quot;With Bryan Fuller&amp;#039;s imagination and the production value that he&amp;#039;s brought to a procedural show, which obviously has ongoing serialised aspects, it&amp;#039;s like a procedural you&amp;#039;ve never seen before,&amp;quot; Salke explained. &amp;quot;The character that you&amp;#039;ll be following is the Will Graham character, who has to be pulled into these violent crimes, and they take an incredible toll on him. He&amp;#039;s the definition of a gentle soul, who&amp;#039;s really sensitive.&amp;quot; A premiere date for Hannibal is yet to be confirmed, with NBC&amp;#039;s Chairman of Entertainment Bob Greenblatt confirming that the show&amp;#039;s scheduling is &amp;quot;to be determined&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;It could be a summer show,&amp;quot; he revealed. &amp;quot;When you look at all the great cable shows that are on in the summer, I think it could fit really nicely in that world. It&amp;#039;s really well-crafted.&amp;quot; Laurence Fishburne, Gina Torres and Eddie Izzard are among the other stars attached to Hannibal, which star Mikkelsen has described as &amp;quot;quite bloody&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;a lot of gruesomeness&amp;quot;. &amp;gt; Anthony Hopkins on Hannibal TV series: &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t play Lecter as evil&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Hugh Dancy: &amp;#039;Hannibal TV series is psychological and experimental&amp;#039; Photo gallery - 15 exciting new shows for 2013:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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