OMG! So happy with my friends at SpoilerTV- they have the first promos for the new HBO series TRUE BLOOD premiering this fall on HBO. I didn’t make it to the panel at Comic Con but the show had BIG buzz. I love the books by Charlaine Harris and have seen the unfinished leaked pilot. So far so good!
Here is some news from the panel:
My notes on the unaired pilot that I have seen:
Anna Paquin has Sookie ( the lead) down pat and her circle of friends are drawn by Alan Ball ( producer of Six Feet Under) as close to the southern vampire series books as possible in a tv adaptation.
Surprise? Her BFF Tara is played by Passions star Brook Kerr. Brook played the perpetually put upon Whitney Russell who had a baby by the man she thought was her brother ( then wasn’t) who then had an affair with her real brother ( yes-gay sex on the down low in daytime) and managed to be best friends to the show’s lead through thick and thin. She had an onscreen fling with Smallville’s Green Arrow Justin Hartley too….Fellow Passions star Molly Stanton is on Fox’s Do NOT Disturb this fall, Jesse Metcalfe heat up the sheets on Desperate Housewives so the alum of this supernatural soap seem to be doing pretty well in transitioning to prime time.
A nice BTS bit courtesy of True-Blood.net
Video: Quick Chat with Alan Ball, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer
