5 April 2013 8:29 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Hannibal performed better last night than many had feared given its brutal time period.
Coming in third place in NBC’s 10 p.m. Thursday “death slot” against original episodes of ABC’s Scandal and CBS’ Elementary, the new crime drama had 4.3 million viewers and a 1.6 in the adult demo. That’s NBC’s best rating in the hour with entertainment programming in more than a year. It’s up 78 percent from the debut of the short-lived Do No Harm in January and climbed 45 percent from its special Go On lead-in.
What’s surprising is that NBC decided not to give »
- James Hibberd
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