quote:Ball bringing new "Blood" to HBO
Alan Ball is returning to HBO's primetime lineup as the pay cable network has picked up his drama pilot "True Blood" to series.
The number of episodes and the premiere date for the vampire drama starring Anna Paquin is yet to be determined. Production on the show's first season is slated to begin in the fall.
Based on the "Southern Vampire" book series by Charlaine Harris, "True Blood" takes place in a world in which vampires can buy Japanese-made synthetic blood. Their integration into a small Louisiana town causes quite a stir, and a love story ensues between a vampire, Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) and Sookie Stackhouse (Paquin), an innocent waitress who can read people's minds.
"It's an absolute pleasure to continue our relationship with Alan Ball," HBO Entertainment president Carolyn Strauss said. " 'True Blood' proves that Alan continues as a master of his craft."
Ball's first series for HBO, the critically praised "Six Feet Under," bowed out in 2005 after five seasons.
The pilot cast of "True Blood" also included Brook Kerr, Ryan Kwanten and Sam Trammell.
quote:HBO rolls with Ball's 'True Blood'
'Six Feet Under' creator to act as showrunner
Alan Ball is back in HBO's court, as the paycabler has officially picked up the vampire series "True Blood."
Ball, who created the hit "Six Feet Under" for HBO, will exec produce and showrun "True Blood," which is based on the novel series "Southern Vampire" from author Charlaine Harris
Net is still ironing out an episodic order and airdate, but "True Blood" is expected to go into production this fall. Ball, who wrote and directed the pilot, already has penned several more episodes.
"'True Blood' proves that Alan continues as a master of his craft," said HBO entertainment prexy Carolyn Strauss.
Ball first started working on the project in October 2005, when he signed a two-year overall pact with HBO. The project was eventually rolled to this year, and was shot earlier this summer with stars Anna Paquin, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Stephen Moyer and Brook Kerr.
Set in small-town Louisiana, series follows the world of vampires, who are able to co-exist with humans by drinking a Japanese-manufactured synthetic blood. While spooky, the show also contains a dose of humor alongside the horror.
"Charlaine has created such a rich environment that's very funny and at the same time very scary," Ball told Daily Variety after first selling the project in 2005. "I bought the book on impulse and I just couldn't put it down."
Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress who winds up falling for the vampire Bill Compton (played by Moyer) and who has powers of her own. Carrie Preston and Michael Raymond-James round out the cast.
Ball recently directed the film "Nothing is Private." Ball's Your Face Goes Here Entertainment shingle will produce "True Blood" with HBO.
Dit klinkt heel vettt!!!quote:True Blood
Created by Alan Ball. Cast: Anna Paquin, Sam Trammell, Stephen Moyer, Brook Kerr. Premieres this fall on HBO, air date TBA.
In the press these days it's very en vogue to talk about HBO, more specifically on the declining state of its original programming. Yes, it's true that such HBO standbys as Sex and the City, Rome, Deadwood, Six Feet Under and The Sopranos have all either been cancelled or have simply called it a day. And, yes, I doubt anyone would be calling this a banner year for its original programming. Entourage has slipped more and more into the realm of broad, goofy humor (a recent episode had the boys bumming a ride on Kanye West's jet) and there's been endless water-cooler debates about either the brilliance or idiocy, depending on your perspective, of the The Sopranos series finale.
Plus, there's the little matter of Showtime kicking ass. Between The Tudors, Weeds, Californication, Masters of Horror and Dexter, Showtime built a stable and critically beloved cluster of original programming. These shows may not have the prestige or sheen of the HBO projects, but they do a lot to move the cable channel out of the ghetto of second-run movies and soft-core skin flicks. These days, Showtime is looking more and more like legitimate competition.
Because the cable channels work on a more internalized system of checks and balances (instead of advertising dollars they make decisions based on subscriptions and pay more credence to critical reactions and surveys), it's hard to know when a show isn't working or when it's fallen out of favor. Think about how long Arliss ran on HBO before someone gave them the memo that it wasn't in the least bit funny. And I think it may be too early to be lamenting HBO's loss of creative steam. After all, Flight of the Conchords is easily the weirdest, funniest, most gutsy (and sweet) comedy since Arrested Development's brief, brilliant run. (And what's more—it's been renewed for next year.) But a sitcom about a couple of gawky New Zealand folk singers trying to make it in New York doesn't generate the kind of deafening buzz that HBO is gunning for, no matter how hilarious it might be.
There is a project like this in the pipeline, however, and I cannot wait for it to be unleashed on the unsuspecting cable subscriber.The show is True Blood and its creator is Alan Ball, who guided five dysfunctional years of Six Feet Under. It is an adaptation of cult writer Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire novels and stars Anna Paquin as tough-as-nails barmaid Sookie Stackhouse. Excited yet? What if I told you Sookie was telepathic and that the show takes place in a world where vampires have come "out of the coffin."
Before you can claim that this is yet another instance of HBO's misguided loyalty (as many felt with Deadwood creator David Milch's difficult but underrated John from Cincinnati), I am here to say that it is not. This is the real, and really entertaining, deal.
I have read the pilot script and I must say that it is a big fat multi-layered club sandwich of brilliant. It's a violent, visceral, sexy page-turner for sure; I can only imagine what it'll be like when it's realized visually.
Considering there's no premiere date set (online reports indicate this fall but considering HBO's juggernaut of a marketing department, you'd think we would have seen something by now), I won't spill too many beans except to say that it's the closest thing we have to a scary, funny successor to Buffy's insurmountable genius. True Blood is self-referential without being obnoxious, the characters are genuine and it adds much to the mythology (in an opening scene we have an Ann Coulter?like vampire advocate spitting insults at Anderson Cooper), both in relation to the vampires and how humans deal with them.
True Blood is packed with the kind of itchy, must-see-next-week's-episode agitation last experienced in season one of Lost; it's the stuff heated message board posts are made of—and it's looking more and more likely that a vampire show could bring HBO back from the dead.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844441/quote:True Blood is an American television series based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris and adapted for television by Alan Ball. The series is produced by HBO in association with Ball's own production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment.
The show details the fictional co-existence of vampires and humans in a small Louisiana town after Japanese-made synthetic blood becomes available for purchase. Anna Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress at a diner who falls in love with one of the vampires, Bill Compton (portrayed by Stephen Moyer), integrated into her society.[1][2]
The show will premiere on September 7, 2008.
Cast and characters
* Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in a smalltown diner[3]
* Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton, a vampire with whom Sookie falls in love [4]
* Alexander Skarsgard as Eric Northman, a thousand-year-old vampire Viking [5]
* Ryan Kwanten as Sookie's brother Jason Stackhouse [3]
* Sam Trammell as Sam Merlotte, the owner of the restaurant in which Sookie works [3]
* Brook Kerr as Tara Thornton, Sookie's best friend.
* Jim Parrack as Hoyt Fortenberry.
* Chris Bauer as detective Andy Bellefleur.
* Nelsan Ellis as Sookie's coworker Lafayette Reynolds.
* Lynn Collins as Dawn Green, Jason Stackhouse's love interest.
* William Sanderson as Bud Dearborne.
* Lorin McCraley as a Grabbit Quick Clerk
Production
Series creator Alan Ball had previously worked with premium cable channel HBO on Six Feet Under, which ran for five seasons. In October 2005, after Six Feet Under's finale, Ball signed a two-year agreement with HBO to develop and produce original programming for the network. True Blood became the first project under the deal, after Ball read the first book in Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampires Mysteries series "on impulse" and became interested in "bringing [Harris'] vision to television."[6] The project's hour-long pilot was ordered concurrently with the finalization of the aforementioned development deal and was written, directed and produced by Ball.[1][6] Cast members Paquin, Kwanten and Trammell were announced in February 2007 and Kerr and Moyer later on in April.[3][4] The pilot was shot in the early summer of 2007 and was officially ordered to series in August, at which point Ball had already written several more episodes.[1] Gary Calamar, the music director for the series, said he's working on a soundtrack for the show that is "swampy, bluesy and spooky" and that he plans to feature local Luisiana musicians.[7] Calamar's work includes the sound for "Dexter," "Weeds" and "Entourage."
Viral Marketing Campaign
True Blood has since been prefaced with a somewhat successful viral marketing/ARG campaign. This has included setting up multiple websites, encoding web address into unmarked envelopes mailed to high profile blog writers and others, and even performances by a "vampire" who is attempting to reach out to others of their kind, to discuss the recent creation of TruBlood, a material apparently pivotal to the initial plot.
quote:MEDiEVAL brings us another DVD screener of an upcoming new show, this time it’s True Blood and is widescreen. This popped up two hours after the Fringe screener but we must have missed it, anyway, it’s here now. The first episode is scheduled to air on HBO in September, so a nice early screener. Seems to be a decent DVD screener, but I did notice one part where a scene was missing, this is a screener and this is to be expected. Please check samples bellow.
Please note that this release has been nuked (interlacing_i26.tinypic.com.2e0v19v.png) however it is still very watchable, if you are very picky about this sort of problem, you may want to wait to see if a proper or repack shows up. Also this release is an unusual size of 548MB and according to scene rules should be 440MB. I guess if it wasn’t nuked for interlacing it would have been for its size.
Je bent juist veel te laat, er was allang een topique over. True Blood: Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Six Feet Under!quote:Op maandag 16 juni 2008 21:49 schreef Tim86 het volgende:
Waarom zo vroeg een topic?
Contradictio in terminis.quote:Op woensdag 18 juni 2008 09:36 schreef Liquidootje het volgende:
homo-kut
Story of your life.quote:maar ik begrijp het even niet.
Daar moet nog even naar gekeken worden idd. Terwijl mensen iets zeiden dachten ze iets anders, volgens mij kan dat IRL niet eens. Ik niet iig.quote:Op dinsdag 1 juli 2008 20:48 schreef alwaysthebest het volgende:
En dat stemmenhoorgedoe, hoe dat is gedaan, is heel irritant.
Dat ligt dan echt aan jou.quote:Op woensdag 2 juli 2008 12:38 schreef Symer het volgende:
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Daar moet nog even naar gekeken worden idd. Terwijl mensen iets zeiden dachten ze iets anders, volgens mij kan dat IRL niet eens. Ik niet iig.
Nou helemaal direct op het zelfde moment is het toch een beetje moeilijk hoor. Je gedachtengang en het echt verbaal iets zeggen zit goed met elkaar verweven. Je maakt dus een soort van afweging om iets wel te zeggen en het ander achter te houden.quote:
In de scene van de cafe "dachten" ze dan ook NET niks toen ze wat bestelden.quote:Op maandag 7 juli 2008 15:26 schreef Liquidootje het volgende:
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Nou helemaal direct op het zelfde moment is het toch een beetje moeilijk hoor. Je gedachtengang en het echt verbaal iets zeggen zit goed met elkaar verweven. Je maakt dus een soort van afweging om iets wel te zeggen en het ander achter te houden.
Het valt dus niet precies gelijk met elkaar, maar naast elkaar. Probeer maar een rijmpje op te zeggen terwijl je wisselgeld moet omrekenen. Bijna maar niet helemaal.
HBO is abonnee TV en daar kan dat welquote:Op maandag 8 september 2008 20:09 schreef athlonkmf het volgende:
Geinig verhaal, maar vooral omdat ik verrast was dat er naakte borsten op amerikaanse tv was te zien.
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In de scene van de cafe "dachten" ze dan ook NET niks toen ze wat bestelden.
Niet te vergelijken.quote:Op dinsdag 9 september 2008 15:26 schreef BroesWillems het volgende:
ff een tvp, kijken of het me kan boeien.
zit er nog een beetje humor in? ala Supernatural?
ow,quote:
Sorry Marble, als jij nou geen smaak hebt, dan ligt dat niet aan onsquote:Op woensdag 9 juli 2008 16:14 schreef Marble het volgende:
Na het zien van de pilot vind ik dit bij nader inzien best wel een ontoepasselijke kut-TT (*slaat TS*) omdat het natuurlijk met geen mogelijkheid in de schaduw van het geniale BtVS kan staan, maar goed wat verwacht je ook van de creator van een flutserie als SFU. Mods, wijzig svp de TT even naar "True Blood: [Charmed/Dark Shadows/Dark Angel/vul hier andere middelmatige gothicfantasyserie in] meets Six Feets Under". BVD!
Whaha so true.quote:Op dinsdag 9 september 2008 16:22 schreef Killjoy het volgende:
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Sorry Marble, als jij nou geen smaak hebt, dan ligt dat niet aan ons
Die paar missende scenes maken het dermate beter?quote:Op woensdag 10 september 2008 10:04 schreef AntiChrist het volgende:
vind het best een leuke serie alleen de eerste aflevering gezien nu, de preairs kijk ik niet want daar missen scene's in schijnbaar...
nee maar ik zie graag een volledige aflevering beetje lullig als je scene's mist die bijv: belangrijk zijn voor het verhaal.quote:Op woensdag 10 september 2008 10:32 schreef Liquidootje het volgende:
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Die paar missende scenes maken het dermate beter?
Ik vond afl 1 ook al zo'n KNIP einde hebben. Cliffhangers oké, maar beide einden leken echt uit het niets te komen vallenquote:Op maandag 15 september 2008 22:46 schreef Jnk18 het volgende:
Ik vind het wel een leuke show. Episode 2 was stuk beter dan de pilot.
Alleen sommige accents zijn beetje geforced en dat einde was een beetje raar, mja het kan een leuke show worden dit
SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.Hunger I want it so bad I can taste it.
it drives me mad to see it wasted,
when I need it so bad that it's burning me.
I'm hungry!
Tuurlijk, daar ken ik haar van ... ziet er goed uit trouwensquote:Op woensdag 19 december 2007 21:50 schreef Marble het volgende:
Met Academy Award winner Anna Paquin, vooral bekend bij deze doelgroep als Rogue uit de X-Men films!
Idd heerlijke theme song, krijg er kippenvel van.quote:Op woensdag 17 september 2008 22:14 schreef Da_Ripper het volgende:
ep1 zojuist afgekeken =![]()
meteen ep2 starten...
en ondertussen kunnen jullie ff luisteren naar de Theme Song, ook![]()
Dat is soms inderdaad nogal geforceerd. Irriteerde ik me ook eerst wel aan. Al ben ik er nu aan gewend en past het er wel leuk bijquote:Op maandag 15 september 2008 22:46 schreef Jnk18 het volgende:
Alleen sommige accents zijn beetje geforced en dat einde was een beetje raar, mja het kan een leuke show worden dit
theme song is super jaquote:Op woensdag 17 september 2008 22:45 schreef Jnk18 het volgende:
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Idd heerlijke theme song, krijg er kippenvel van.
Dacht ik gelijk aan toen die dat deed echt grappig gewoon.quote:Op donderdag 18 september 2008 13:40 schreef Tim86 het volgende:
dat naar zichzelf wijzen was wel American Psycho style haha
Hè verdorie, ik dacht hem ( Nelsan Ellis ) ergens van te kennen, dus ik ff imdb checken zie ik meteen een spoiler wbt deze Lafayette:quote:Op donderdag 18 september 2008 14:27 schreef bob1234 het volgende:
Vind die homoneger ook heel erg grappig personage.
SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.Ook staat er bovenaan: True Blood (2007)
Wat je vindt, ...
Ik ook. Het verhaal trok me heel erg maar na de pilot kreeg ik wat twijfels..zit er nu eigenlijk al wel lekker in.quote:Op zaterdag 20 september 2008 13:37 schreef Jivis het volgende:
Toffe serie! Vond epi 2 een stuk sterker dan de pilot trouwens.
quote:Op zaterdag 20 september 2008 13:37 schreef Jivis het volgende:
Toffe serie! Vond epi 2 een stuk sterker dan de pilot trouwens.
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