Hannibal Buress has no problem pointing to the elephant in the room, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick

Bryan Fuller's utterly insane adaptation of the Hannibal story for NBC has been cancelled - it will finish at the end of its current third season

In case you've missed it, Hannibal is one of the best shows currently on TV.

Almost 6,500 Leaving Certificate students were entered for yesterday’s higher level agricultural science exams, which teachers considered quite demanding.

Muammar Gaddafi’s spokesman said today a surrender-by-Saturday ultimatum to the fugitive dictator’s henchmen in his home town would be rejected.

ALMOST £1 billion (€1.07bn) of Libyan currency held in Britain will be released to the country’s central bank after the UN Sanctions Committee approved the measure.

Libyan rebels have pledged to launch an assault within days on Muammar Gaddafi’s home town, the ousted strongman’s last major bastion of support.

Libya’s warring sides in the Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte are now engaged in “discussions”, according to Nato.

Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's wife and other relatives fled to Algeria today, its foreign ministry said.

MUAMMAR GADDAFI’S wife and three of his children fled Libya to neighbouring Algeria yesterday, firm evidence that the longtime leader has lost his grip on the country.

Few in the Arab world today, unlike in Kosovo, for example, harbour many illusions about Western assistance. As for suggestions that the West somehow arm the rebels, isn’t that what happened with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan and which led to Taliban rule in the first place?

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's children flaunted their wealth plundered from the country and behaved like mini-tyrants, according to secret US diplomatic memos.

Adrien Brody is suing the makers of a thriller film for more than $2m (€1.44m), claiming he has not been fully paid for the project and the movie is being released in the United States without his permission.

The long-running TV series from the 1980s finally comes to the big screen, with the same basic plot involving a crack team of military tough guys forced into crossing the line after being falsely accused of stealing money-printing plates to fight crime in their own individual way.

Liam Neeson was "flattered" to be asked to be in 'The A-Team'.

Jessica Biel brought 'The A-Team' into the 21st century by bringing girl power to the gang, the cast agreed at the film’s London premiere.

A FRENCH prisoner dubbed “Hannibal Lecter” was yesterday sentenced to serve another 30 years in jail for killing his cellmate and devouring his lung.

The United Nations and European Union rallied behind Switzerland yesterday after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s call for jihad against the country, with a top UN official branding the move unacceptable.

Libya is refusing to issue visas for visitors from nearly every European country in an escalation of a dispute that began when Swiss authorities arrested the son of Muammar Gaddafi.

THANKS to two Irish entrepreneurs, the most distant part of France in now one of the easiest to reach, at least from Dublin.

Anthony Hopkins is teaming up with director Ridley Scott to bring his most infamous villain Hannibal Lecter back to the big screen.

Hannibal Lecter returns in Hannibal Rising (Momentum, €24.99), a prequel about the serial killer’s early years.

Action man Vin Diesel is begging Mel Gibson to help him get his pet movie project Hannibal into production.

Readers hungry for a good thriller can get ready to welcome an old friend: A new Hannibal Lecter novel, Behind the Mask, is coming next Autumn.

HANNIBAL “The Cannibal” Lecter, portrayed

RED DRAGON brings Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter back for another bite of the cherry. This time round Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) is enlisted by FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) to catch the Tooth Fairy, real name Francis Dolarhyde (Ralph Fiennes).

DRIVING night and day, more than 70 American tanks and 60 armoured troop carriers raced 700 miles across rough desert terrain, a bold flanking movement that placed US forces less than a day's march from Baghdad yesterday.

On the face of it, the resemblance between Noel Dempsey and Scipio Africanus is minimal. Scipio was aquiline and thin in the hair department. Noel Dempsey is non-aquiline and most of his hair is still with him.

Emily Watson revealed a dark secret when she turned out for the gala screening of the Silence of the Lambs prequel, Red Dragon.

"It was a daunting prospect, but I think it sort of worked out," veteran British actor Anthony Hopkins says about revisiting Hollywood’s favourite psychopath, Hannibal Lecter, for a third time.

Hannibal Lecter has been voted the scariest serial killer of all time in a new film poll.

Sir Anthony Hopkins has said he has not yet lost his taste for doing another turn as Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.