Sharpen your stakes.I can't tell you how excited I am to share this news. After months of waiting (and waiting), HBO has finally announced that they have officially ordered Alan Ball's latest series, True Blood. Ball (Six Feet Under) wrote and directed the pilot for True Blood and it is anticipated that he will write several episodes of the supernatural drama.
Based on the acclaimed Southern Vampire novel series by Charlaine Harris, True Blood will go into production this fall. However, the pay cabler still hasn't determined an episode count or launch date for the series. (I'd guess sometime in mid-2008 or as late as fall 2008.)
True Blood will star Anna Paquin, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Stephen Moyer, and Brook Kerr. Paquin toplines as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress and social pariah, who falls for a seductive vampire (Moyer) in rural Louisiana. Vampires, having developed a synthetic blood, freely mingle with humans.
Ball's pilot script for True Blood was one of the best written ones from this past development season and I have been waiting with baited breath for HBO order the damn thing to series. This has just become a must-watch series.
Stay tuned as this project develops; I'm already trying to get my hands on the pilot that HBO shot earlier this year.
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The books are excellent fun and I trust the man bringing them to TV.
Next year can't get here soon enough, what with the late starts of Battlestar Galactica and Lost and now the news that Sookie Stackhouse will be flesh and blood.
And I love Vampires, so count me in!
And Thank You for that Picture!
I love the Sookie series, I think Anna Paquin is fabulous, Alan Ball is a genius, and now I have to sign up for HBO again before this airs!