NBC cancelled Hannibal last year, and one of its executive producers thinks she knows why.

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According to Yahoo , Martha De Laurentiis believes online pirates are to blame. “When nearly one-third of your audience for Hannibal is coming from pirated sites," she said, "...You don’t have to know calculus to do the math. If a show is stolen, it makes it difficult, if not impossible, to fairly compensate a crew and keep a series in production.”Hannibal was reportedly the fifth most illegally downloaded show of 2013, with numbers reaching into the millions.Earlier this year we asked you to tell us which show that ended in 2015 you'll miss the most , and Hannibal won by a huge margin. We also recently sat down with Hugh Dancy and spoke about the potential for more Hannibal, and how Season 3 ended.

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