The Silence of the Lambs. But as it turns out, CBS's new series Clarice — revolving around the young FBI profiler at the heart of Jonathan Demme's adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel of the same name — will not be mentioning her most famous consultant. The reason? As reported by Entertainment Weekly, the rights to Harris' characters have been divided between MGM and the Dino De Laurentiis Company. Thus, the CBS show will be able to feature all the characters that NBC's Hannibal was unable to during its three-season run. This includes the titular Clarice herself (Rebecca Breeds), her crime-fighting colleague Ardelia Mapp (Devyn Tyler), Deputy Assistant Attorney General Paul Krendler (Michael Cudlitz), and serial killer Buffalo Bill — the very reason for her team up with Lecter in the first place — among others. So while Clarice's experiences with Hannibal do inform her past within the new series, and he does still remain at large, he will not, and cannot be mentioned by name.