True Blood is a show with real bite

From Metro UK, I love the Venn diagram !

Vampires aren't for everyone. Undead bloodsuckers might be running riot across popular culture right now but there will always be plenty of people who just can't get to grips with eternal life and spontaneous combustion.

True Blood, the new show from Alan 'Six Feet Under' Ball, is looking to change all that.

Set in a world where most vampires are trying to live in harmony with humans – a situation made possible through a mass-market form of synthetic blood – it stars British actor Stephen Moyer as a well-spoken vamp longing for Anna Paquin's telepathic waitress in a small Louisiana town.

But great pains have been made to keep True Blood accessible for anyone who doesn't obsess over genre television.

'Lots of people ask me who it's aimed at,' admits Moyer, 'and the way I explain it is: imagine you've got a Venn diagram where one circle is vampire lovers, another is Alan Ball fans and then you have one circle which is just people who like really good drama. They all cross over in the middle and that's where it becomes something other than just a fantasy show.

People who don't like the vampire genre see something different in True Blood because it's well-written, funny and quite odd

'You wouldn't think that a vampire show could cross over but people who don't like the vampire genre – and, believe me, it's not my go-to genre either – really see something different in True Blood because it's well-written, it's funny and it's also quite odd.

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