Today at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, Amazon executives were on hand to discuss their upcoming slate of series and I asked if they could say what happened with Hannibal.
Said Roy Price, the head of Amazon Studios, “We occasionally look at shows that could be revived. Often it’s complicated from a business point of view.”
Price then spoke more about their general interest in developing new series versus picking up series from other networks, stating, “The thing about extending a show is that you would always be doing — this is not a reflection on Hannibal in particular — but you would always be doing that or you would usually be doing that, let’s say, instead of doing the first season of a new show. And the first season of a new show could become the fantastic new signature show for the network, whereas a show that you could pick up that is coming out from a network or something, usually, if you have the opportunity to pick it up, it’s kind of a marginally solid show. Almost never, truly is it a signature… a fantastic show that is going to be a signature show. And so it’s often hard to decide, ‘Yeah, let’s not try a new show. Let’s bet on getting a solid outcome.’ We are not really in the solid outcome business, you know. We are not really in the programming business, you know. There used to be a market and there isn’t in On Demand for that show”
Source and more:IGN
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