Pilot Season: NBC Orders Hannibal To Series Also Builds up Well-known

Bryan Bigger NBC has given a collection to Hannibal, an adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel Red-colored-colored Dragon, from Pushing Daisies' Bryan Bigger. The contemporary thriller will feature classic figures within the novel, including FBI Agent Will Grahagm and also the mentor, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, both that are reintroduced in the start of the budding relationship. Bigger will write and executive-produce alongside Martha DeLaurentiis. Pilot Season: Have the scoop! In pilot news, NBC has furthermore bought Well-known, an opulent cleaning cleaning soap in which a female detective returns undercover for the wealthy family she was elevated in - since the maid's daughter - to solve the murder from the well-known heiress who was simply once her nearest friend.Mercy's Liz Heldens written the pilot and may executive-produce with Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein.

Warner Bros. lands 'Landover'

Warner Bros. is searching to produce some miracle, optioning Terry Brooks' "Miracle Kingdom of Landover" quantity of books for Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures and Andy Cohen's Grade A Entertainment. Goldsman and Cohen will produce with Weed Road's Kerry Promote and Alex Block controlling for Weed Road. The film is dependent round the first book inside the series "Miracle Kingdom available -- Offered!," first launched in 1986. It's the story from the recently widowed lawyer who finds a billboard inside an trendy Christmas catalog proclaiming use a magical kingdom for $millions of having a guy named Mr. Meeks. After he purchases Landover, he discovers she must unite the kingdom's denizens and creatures to avoid an evil demon bent on destroying the realm. Other game game titles inside the series are "The Black Unicorn," "Wizard particularly,Inch "The Tangle Box," "Wizards Brew" and also the latest title, "A Princess of Landover." Project was formerly setup at Universal, which acquired the rights for the series in 2005 for Stephen Sommers to direct, and attracted on Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel to evolve the initial book. Brooks is much better recognized for the "Landover" and "Shannara" quantity of fantasy books, which has 19 game game titles. Brooks is repped by Anne Sibbald of Janklow and Nesbit Affiliate marketers. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Acting Oscar Nominees Are 'Out of Character' in New Portrait Gallery

You've seen them look their best on the red carpet throughout awards season, but now this year's Oscar-nominated actors' photos will be on display for fans to get up close and personal with the stars before the Academy Awards are presented on Feb. 26.Photographer Douglas Kirkland photographed all 20 of the 2011 Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress nominees for "Out of Character," a new photography exhibit for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Kirkland's exclusive portraits of Oscar favorites, such as George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Octavia Spencer, and Melissa McCarthy, will be open to the public in the Academy's Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills. Following the exhibition, these large-format portraits will become part of the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library photograph collection.All of the images are also currently viewable in an online gallery at Oscar.com, along with behind the scenes shots from each actor's time in the studio."Out of Character" will be on display from Feb. 11-Mar. 18 at the Grand Lobby Gallery at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills. The gallery is open Tue.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sat.-Sun. 12-6 p.m. Admission is free.For more information and to check out the photos online, visit Oscar.com.

Harrison: Ben and Jamie's Hug Was Probably the most Horrifying Moments in Bachelor History

The Bachelor, Jamie and Ben After days of waiting to possess her first hug with Ben, Jamie finally designed a move resulting in among the Bachelor's most cringe-worthy awkward moments. Within this week's talk to host Chris Harrison, he describes the NY nurse was from her element, why the 2-on-one date could've gone in either case and just how in a few days Ben finally confronts Courtney. Courtney outdid herself about this week's group date by essentially going topless:Chris Harrison: If anybody was surprised at that, you are crazy - which was so her. But I must say when she's around the group dates she rules. Bless these women playing a totally different game and being so concerned about one another. As Courtney states, these group dates are just like one-on-one dates on her. I understand it's rubbing everybody the wrong manner, but it is rubbing Ben the proper way. VIDEO: Chris Harrison includes a familiar face in your mind for Bachelorette Emily Maynard Have you think Rachel had the 2-on-one date with Blakeley within the bag?Harrison: No, honestly both of them could've gone, but he did not have anything with Blakeley. The greater Blakeley pressed and opened up herself in the more he recognized, I do not believe that way in regards to you. You hate to create this complete a game title, but it's. You've a couple and something girl is simply which makes it easy you, embracing you, kissing you, just a little affirmation in some places, and you enter another room and also the girl is insecure and crying. Who will you be drawn to? What have you think watching Jamie and Ben's first hug?Harrison: You are able to tell she's shy ... and she or he was clearly from her element. Which was easily probably the most horrifying moments within the good reputation for the show. It had been sad, horrifying, funny - it's rare you are feeling every emotion possible, however, you just did not get sound advice watching. VIDEO: Bachelor's Chris Harrison states if fans hate Courtney now, hold back until in a few days Maybe it was awkward telling Casey S. she needed to go back home?Harrison: The entire point together with her was which i did not would like it to be confrontational. By no means maybe it was a Bentley or Rozlyn factor, where she'd come onto trick. Through speaking towards the women and talking with the boyfriend [it had been apparent] she was deeply in love with this person [in your own home] and she or he really just found the realization on the program. I believe she came on the program to get over this person, however it just did not work. It appears like in a few days, Ben finally confronts Courtney.Harrison: He listens to more using their company women and thus he finally states, we are getting way late within this process if there's that much smoke there's reached be something into it. So there is a confrontation in a few days where everything involves a mind. Be sure to read this week's Bachelor: The Morning After ...

As NBC looks ahead, a few looks back

NBC is wanting musical drama "Smash" can provide a midseason ratings spark. NBC Entertainment chief Bob Greenblatt was refreshingly blunt in assessing the network's performance this season, telling TV experts within the month of the month of january, "We'd a really bad fall -- worse than I'd wanted for, but in what I had been expecting.InchIf possibly he'd told us before we seen "Free Agents."Remember all people shows the network opened up inside the fourth quarter? They were really placeholders, spit and bailing wire, to hold the region together until inside a couple of days, when -- for NBC, anyway -- the summer season really begins.This Sunday's Super Bowl provides the ultimate platform, promotionally speaking, to create the network's midseason salvo, such as the musical drama "Smash" and return of last spring's surprise singing-competition hit, "The Voice." Yet since the network prepares to plant the seed items from the wanted-for turnaround, it's being nagged by uncomfortable pointers of exactly how far the old Peacock has fallen.Possibly like NBC Entertainment -- like CBS News, which must deal with people constantly dredging up recollections of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite or perhaps the Wally Disney Co., whose patriarch casts a extended shadow -- carries around extra baggage, which becomes especially difficult when it's inside the ratings basement.Watching NBC wallow in fourth place (and frequently under that inside the Nielsen standings each time a cable channel's obtaining a evening) more often than not leads to references for the network's "Must-See TV" heyday -- a pithy slogan that labored well in those days but, in hindsight, has converted into a kind of yoke upon future decades. If very little else, it's a favorite of newspaper editors and headline authors who haven't seen network TV since "Seinfeld."Actually, whatever NBC's success having its Super Bowl strategy, the network's glory days will be revisited.This spring, Doubleday will publish "The top of Rock," former NBC Entertainment Prez Warren Littlefield's dental good status for his tenure within the network, which carries the subtitle "Inside the Increase and lower of Must See TV."This is a guess: People rushing to check out their names may well be more thinking about the fall in comparison to increase.The other day, another former NBC topper, the late Brandon Tartikoff, appeared to stay in news reviews, along with his widow, Lilly, giving his correspondences and effects -- greater than 4,000 pieces -- to USC's School of movement picture Arts.The era of Tartikoff, Littlefield and bosses Grant Mess and Don Ohlmeyer includes NBC at its most dominant, full of swagger and confidence. That legacy has hung over people controlling it since, who've heard plenty of adjectives in regards to the "once-proud" Peacock, or puns like "Must-Flee TV." Littlefield, who saw the network range from third (when that really meant "last") with a dominant first and begin climbing lower again within the time, felt people demands themselves, and states they're difficult to avoid."It's daunting," he mentioned. "We succeeded incredibly within the eighties ... It's my job to felt, 'How are we able to deal with that?' " For moving across the "Must-See TV" layer, he added, "Once they hidden that logo design design a really very long time ago, it is a burden to satisfy that."The Super Bowl reflects the initial genuine test in the new regime, and may doubtless trigger additional analysis -- with, potentially, more unhelpful adjectives -- once the strategy doesn't yield apparent benefits.NBC would definitely be wise to continue tamping lower anticipation, since the NFL's large game features a spotty history in creating new programs. That describes why in 1996 a network needed the then rather bold step of airing among its finest hits after the sport rather: "We made a decision that rather than forcing everyone to check out something they probably shouldn't watch, let's permit them to watch something they wish to watch?"The network was NBC, the show was "Pals," as well as the quote came from from then-West Coast chief Ohlmeyer.Yep, for systems wanting to engineer a recovery, history might be a real discomfort. Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com