TCA 2008: TRUE BLOOD

Published: July 11, 2008, 6:50 pm

Tags: hbo, tca press tour, true blood

By: Kevin Kelly, Special TCA Correspondent Well, it's Friday night, and you know what that means. A fresh episode of MOONLIGHT! Sorry, was that a bit too cruel? It would have been a reality if bone-headed CBS hadn't cancelled the show, which was pretty damned fang-tastic. But I know, I'm preaching to the choir here. HBO is hoping that they can fill the gap left by the stake of cancellation with their new Alan Ball series TRUE BLOOD. Ball is moving deftly from working with the dead in SIX FEET UNDER to the undead in this adaptation of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire novels. A psychic waitress, a 173 year-old vampire, lots of sex what could go wrong? Ball came across Harris' books when he showed up early for a dental appointment and went to the Barnes & Noble to kill time. The tagline Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend wasn't such a good idea caught his eye, and he couldn't put the book down. Apparently when you're Alan Ball and

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