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[TV] Newest “True Blood” Promo Goes Back To The Show’s Roots

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 28, 2013 @ 8:40pm
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Season 6 of “True Blood” is set to premiere on Sunday, June 16 at 9/8c and HBO has gone back to the roots of the series by serving up an ad centered around the Tru Blood drink, which is apparently in short supply these days.

The series started in 2008, “In a world where vampires have “come out of the coffin”, Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, discovers a new world of different creatures when she meets Bill Compton, a vampire.”

Guest stars joining the HBO smash in Season 6 are acting vet Rutger Hauer (as a mysterious figure with deep ties to Sookie and Jason), “Rubicon’s” Arliss Howard (as Louisiana Governor Truman Burrell), “Friday Night Lights” grad Jurnee Smollett-Bell (as do-gooder Nicole), “90210‘s” Amelia Rose Blaire (as Howard’s onscreen daughter), “House‘s” Karolina Wydra (as a badass vamp) and All The Boys Love Mandy Lane‘s Luke Grimes as James, a Jim Morrison style vampire. The lovely Anna Camp also reprises her role as anti-vamp puritan Sarah. READ MORE

[TV] Waiting Is Still Sucking In Newest “True Blood” Promo

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 26, 2013 @ 1:11pm
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Season 6 of “True Blood” is set to premiere on Sunday, June 16 at 9/8c.Now, HBO has premiered yet another one of its “waiting sucks” clips. Here, Eric hears something about a conspiracy about vampires that are captured for studying.

[TV] More “Waiting Sucks” From “True Blood” Threatens A Wooden Bullet

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 22, 2013 @ 2:35pm
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Season 6 of “True Blood” is set to premiere on Sunday, June 16 at 9/8c HBO has premiered another one of its annual “waiting sucks” clips showcasing a behind-the-scenes moment from the program. Here, Sookie throws herself in front of a potential wooden bullet from her brother.

TV: Two New Clips From “True Blood” Episode #56, Somebody I Used To Know

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Posted by EvanDickson on July 26, 2012 @ 7:09pm
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HBO has released two new clips from the upcoming 56th episode of “True Blood”, “Somebody I Used To Know.” They are respectively titled “Glimmer Of Hope” and “What Happened?” Which is something I’d like to know. I tried to follow this season for you guys – I really did. I made it about 4 episodes in before I had to pull the plug. I get why a lot of people like it, but they must see something in it that I can’t.

In episode #56, “At Authority headquarters, the Chancellors revel in the afterglow of recent events; Eric gets a message from Godric; Bill is shaken by a distant memory. Helped by Claude and his sisters, Sookie and Jason visit the site of their parents’ deaths, with shocking results. An emotional Luna tries to walk in Sam’s shoes. Hoyt’s new pals bring him a present; Lafayette leads a séance to purge a curse; J.D. ups the stakes of his fight with Alcide.”

Tune in to the new season every Sunday night at 9PM, only on HBO. Head inside for the clips! READ MORE

TV: [Next On] Are You Ready For “True Blood” Tonight? Here’s Five More Episode Summaries From The Upcoming Season

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Posted by EvanDickson on June 10, 2012 @ 6:58pm
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Update: Now with a visual aid (aka a trailer for the “Weeks Ahead”) included above!

A lot of you guys have been waiting almost a year for this. “True Blood” returns to HBO Tonight – June 10 at 9 PM ET/PT. The show’s fifth season will contain 12 episodes and will be the last season of the program overseen by show runner Alan Ball. Earlier we had the summaries for the first three episodes of the season, and now synopsis from the five following episodes have hit. That only leaves five hours of the show something of a mystery!

“Mixing romance, suspense, mystery, and humor, the Emmy-nominated show takes place at a time when vampires have come out of the coffin and follows the on-and-off romance between waitress and part-faerie Sookie Stackhouse (Paquin), who can hear people’s thoughts, and 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Moyer).”

Head inside for the descriptions. You’ll find them below the three previously reported summaries. READ MORE

TV: “True Blood” Knows That Waiting Sucks

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 09, 2012 @ 3:34pm
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HBO knows how die-hard fans of “True Blood” are. They acknowledge that 9 months is a long time to go without your fix of vampires and sex (or wolves and sex, or faeries and sex). To that end, there’s a new behind the scenes clip to help tide you over. It’s appropriately titled “Waiting Sucks”.

“True Blood” is set to return on Sunday, June 10 at 9/8c. The show’s fifth season will contain 12 episodes and will be the last season of the program overseen by show runner Alan Ball.

TV: The Fifth Season Of “True Blood” Now Has A Launch Date

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 04, 2012 @ 7:42pm
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“True Blood” is set to return on Sunday, June 10 at 9/8c. The show’s fifth season will contain 12 episodes and will be the last season of the program to be overseen by show runner Alan Ball. Which I guess means they can throw all logic out the window after that and go totally nuts, right? The show has been so conservative, chaste and predictable while maintaining the upmost adherence to narrative cohesion. I hope they finally get some sex, nudity and blood in the mix.

Hit the jump for a 30 second teaser for the season. READ MORE

TV: “True Blood” Loses Head Writer, Alan Ball Stepping Down…

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Posted by EvanDickson on February 27, 2012 @ 10:16pm
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Alan Ball is stepping down as the head writer of “True Blood”.

I’m not entirely sure how much this will impact the upcoming 5th Season of HBO’s flagship sex and vampires odyssey. I do know that the show resumed production in November, so I have to assume that the majority of the upcoming season is pretty much mapped out. The show’s luxurious (around 14 days per episode) production schedule would allow for around 7 or so segments to be in the can. So it’s safe to say that the remaining 5 are outlined at the very least and the majority of them are scripted.

Not much reason has been given for Ball’s departure from the position (he will remain on the show in some capacity, I’m guessing as a producer) except for “exhaustion”. While that’s often PR code-speak for too much hard partying – but I don’t really think that’s the case here. Perhaps Ball is literally exhausted by pushing the show to ridiculous extremes? I don’t imagine he envisioned it being as patently ridiculous as it’s become when he was first getting it off the ground in 2007-2008.

Per Forbes, “Sookie and her pals from HBO’s True Blood are losing their creator. Alan Ball, I have confirmed, will step down from being headwriter of the show about sexy vampires mixing it up in New Orleans. Explanations include exhaustion, and maybe that the show seemed like it had tired blood last season. Ball will still be with the show, I’m told, but a new regime will guide the fates of the characters into their new season. This could also very well be a money issue, as series tend to get more and more expensive as they drag on.” READ MORE