The fledgling US television arm of French film studio Gaumont has broken into the broadcast market after NBC went straight-to-series on its one-hour drama Hannibal.
Gaumont International Television (GIT) has won a 13-episode commission for the series, which explores the relationship between Thomas Harris’s classic character Dr Hannibal Lector and FBI criminal profiler Will Graham.
The series will be written and exec-produced by Bryan Fuller (Heroes), and exec-produced by Martha De Laurentilis (Red Dragon).
GIT previously received a 13-episode commitment from NBC for Hannibal, meaning the show would either be dropped or go straight-to-series, bypassing the pilot process.
The Los Angeles-based company, which launched in September last year and is led by CEO Katie O’Connell, has a number of other projects in development and is also in discussions with US VoD service Netflix for an original series from Eli Roth called Hemlock Grove.
Meanwhile, NBC has also added another pilot to its slate, Notorious, a drama about a female detective who goes undercover within the family she grew up in, as the maid’s daughter, to solve the murder of an heiress who was once her best friend.
Liz Heldens wrote the script and is exec producer with Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein. The show comes from Universal Television and Berman Braun.
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