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True Blood
GenreSupernatural, Fantasy, Drama
Created byAlan Ball
StarringAnna Paquin
Stephen Moyer
Alexander Skarsgard
Country of origin United States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time56min.
Original release
NetworkHBO
Release2008-09-07

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.[1]

The show details the fictional co-existence of vampires and humans in a small Louisiana town after Japanese-made synthetic blood – "TruBlood" – 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).[1][2]

The show will premiere on September 7, 2008[3] and will air on the same day in Canada on The Movie Network.[4]

Cast and characters

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."[8] 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][8] Cast members Paquin, Kwanten and Trammell were announced in February 2007 and Moyer later on in April.[5][6] 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 Louisiana musicians.[9] Calamar's work includes the sound for Dexter, Weeds and Entourage.

Viral Marketing Campaign

The premiere of True Blood has been prefaced with a viral marketing/ARG campaign, based at BloodCopy.com. This has included setting up multiple websites[10][11][12], 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.

A MySpace account with the username "Blood"[13] has, as of June 19, uploaded two videos[14]; one entitled "Vampire Taste Test - Tru Blood vs Human",[15]and one called "BloodCopy Exclusive INTERVIEW WITH SAMSON THE VAMPIRE". There is a wiki at trublood.wikidot.com which collates information on the campaign. On July 13th, the website True-Blood.tv indicated they would be making samples of Tru Blood available as part of a give-away contest.

A rough version of the pilot has been released/leaked online. It has been met with mixed reviews.[16][17]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Schneider, Michael (2007-08-09). "HBO rolls with Ball's 'True Blood'". Daily Variety. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  2. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (2007-08-10). "Ball bringing new 'Blood' to HBO". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  3. ^ Official site
  4. ^ "New HBO and Showtime programming dominates Sunday and Monday nights". The Movie Network. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
  5. ^ a b c d Andreeva, Nellie (2007-02-26). "Paquin finds 'True' calling for Ball, HBO". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  6. ^ a b Andreeva, Nellie (2007-04-07). "Moyer, HBO make 'Blood' pact". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  7. ^ "True Blood Recruits Skarsgard". SCI FI Wire. 2008-03-05. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
  8. ^ a b "HBO Concludes Exclusive Two-Year Television Deal with Six Feet Under Creator Alan Ball" (Press release). Time Warner, of which HBO is a subsidiary. 2005-10-31. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  9. ^ Five TV Shows To Enrich The Ears In '08 by Chuck Crisafulli, Billboard.com, January 02, 2008.
  10. ^ "BloodCopy". Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  11. ^ "RevenantOnes". Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  12. ^ "Chishio.jp". Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  13. ^ "MySpace.com - Blood - 28 - Male - SHREVEPORT, Louisiana - www.myspace.com/389839563". Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  14. ^ "MySpaceTV Videos: Blood Video Channel". Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  15. ^ MySpaceTV Videos: Vampire Taste Test - Tru Blood vs Human by Blood. Event occurs at 1:29. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  16. ^ http://wastelandculture.blogspot.com/2008/07/pilot-watch-part-one-bloody-mess.html Pilot Review
  17. ^ http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=800043010&rw=true
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