True Blood’s Stephen Moyer: ‘We weren’t surprised by Emmy snub’

True Blood star Stephen Moyer has admitted that the cast weren’t surprised when they failed to receive any Emmy nominations this year.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly at last night’s Emmy ceremony, Moyer said:

“Not many shows get nominated in the first season. I would hope that after the success of the second season, it would at least be up there next year in the running. If nothing else, but for [creator Alan Ball's] work.

“I don’t think we were that surprised. Vampire stuff as a genre hasn’t traditionally been a big Emmy choice.”

Stephen also shed some light on how he feels about his girlfriend Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) cosying up to vampire boss Eric.

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Video: Stephen Moyer presents at Emmys with Angel from Buffy!

presentation is at 5:00
Breakthrough announcement and clip at 6:00

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'True Blood' wins 'Breakthrough' honor at the Emmys. Whazzat?

"True Blood" wasn't up for any awards at Sunday night's Primetime Emmy telecast, but it earned some accolades during the broadcast anyway.

The HBO series won something called the "Breakthrough Performance of the Year" that was announced near the end of Sunday's show, beating out Kris Allen's crowning moment on "American Idol" and Chuck kissing Blair on "Gossip Girl."

So what, exactly, is the Breakthrough Performance of the Year? It doesn't really have anything to do with the Emmys, for starters. It's a fan poll sponsored by TV.com (owned by CBS, which aired the awards this year) and Vaseline, which is hyping, no kidding, a "breakthrough in body lotion" and designed to recognize things that cut through the TV clutter and grabbed people's attention over the past season.

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Stephen Moyer donates autographed True Blood DVD to Clothes Off Our Back.org

** only 11 hours left to bid!

Own the "True Blood" The Complete First Season" DVD autographed by one of the stars of the show Stephen Moyer. "True Blood" is nominated for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series at the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards. The item was donated to support the SAG Foundation.

Proceeds from the auction benefit the Screen Actors Guild Foundation Actors Center, the only technical, creative and learning facility of its kind. Offering career-enhancing workshops, seminars, audience events with high-profile industry leaders as well as computer and audio-visual resources at no cost to SAG members, the Actors Center furthers the non-profit Foundation’s mission to assist, educate and inspire actors toward their professional goals and to give back to the communities in which they live.

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: As Tall as Lions by Break Blossoms

As Tall as Lions by Break Blossoms LYRICS
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True Blood's Stephen Moyer: Emmy's red carpet interview

True Blood Crossword Puzzle: S2e07 " Release me"

Thanks Kristie ! If you would like to make crossword or word search puzzles let me know !

Release Me

Why TV Vampires Make Better Boyfriends Than Their Fictional Counterparts

If you are a single male television character who is having trouble attracting the woman of your dreams, there is a simple solution: become a vampire. It may seem counterintuitive. After all, no woman has ever written, “I am seeking a serial killer who will always be fighting his urge to mutilate me,” on her match.com profile. There would seem to be many disadvantages to dating a vampire. First of all, he can only go out at night. No romantic walks on the beach for him. Second, he can never order anything at restaurants. That could be awkward. Third, the damsel must sleep with one eye open at all times lest he succumb to his urge to suck every ounce of blood out of her body or, worse, stand by her bed for hours watching her sleep. That is creepy, not romantic, Edward Cullen!

So why are the undead considered so damn sexy? And why vampires, specifically? No one is hot for zombies. Academics argue that being bitten is a literary metaphor for sex, specifically loss of virginity. The obsessive nature of vampire lust also makes him an appealing fantasy. Nothing is more important to a vamp than the object of his obsession. A vampire would never blow off a girl to play fantasy football with his boys. Actual baseball, maybe, but only if he is one of those wussy Cullens. Every TV vampire — even Nick Knight from Forever Knight – is cooler than the Cullens. In fact, TV vampires are consistently better boyfriends than their mortal fictional counterparts. Consider the evidence as we compare and contrast them below. And remember, once you go vampire, you’ll always aim higher.

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Child star Anna Paquin is all grown-up in hit vampire drama True Blood

From Glasgow Sunday Mail

SEXY Anna Paquin might be TV's raunchiest vampire lover - but film fans will remember her best as the schoolgirl star of The Piano.

Her role as waitress Sookie Stackhouse in Channel 4's critically acclaimed new drama True Blood sees her cavorting naked for red hot love scenes with a vampire.

But rather than blushing about it, at 27 Anna thinks she's got nothing to be shy about.

She laughed: "It would be really stupid if it was one of those shows where the couple who do it all the time were constantly being draped with sheets so that you don't see a nipple or wear bras during sex.

"Maybe some people do but that's just not been my experience.

"Maybe because I was a kid actor, nobody expects me to do those kind of scenes but it's a big part of our show."

Anna, who became the second youngest Oscar winner for her role as Flora McGrath in The Piano, admits that, even when she's got her clothes on, there's not a lot of them as her waitress's uniform consists of hotpants and a tight T shirt.

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True Blood Season 2 Ended Now What?

from the wonderful Lafayette ( KitchenBitch) on Twitter

Are you bummed that season 2 is over? Well here are a few ideas to keep the V high going til season 3.

• Join a fan site or wiki
• Pick up the Sookie Stackhouse books
• Get season one on DVD and rewatch each episode every week and then when season 2 comes out on DVD buy and rewatch it.
• Follow the True Blood characters on twitter. We will have some fun story arcs and challenges until season 3 starts. One Click Follow Lists Here

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol Lyrics
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Carrie ( Arlene) Preston talks from the Emmy suites

Carrie Preston from "True Blood" at the Mondrian's Skybar Emmy Suite from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

http://laist.com/2009/09/19/tv_junkie_2009_emmys_-_talking_fash.php

True Blood averages 12.4 million per episode across platforms in second season

TV by the number reports from Variety

The audience base for HBO’s red-hot vampire drama “True Blood” offers a good illustration of how viewing is changing.

According to HBO, the series’ sophomore season, which wrapped Sept. 13, averaged 12.4 million viewers per episode, when measured across various viewing platforms. But only 24% of those viewers came for the show’s premiere 9 p.m. Sunday telecasts.

Some 37% of “True Blood’s” true-blue fans caught reruns on HBO and its themed channels throughout the week, while 21% watched via DVR playback and 18% watched on the HBO on Demand platform. It’s telling that the percentage of on-demand viewing climbed significantly from the show’s first season, when it was 13%, while the rerun viewing dropped sharply, from 56% in season one.

-More on Variety

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Fantastic Fest in Austin to screen Anna Paquin's and Alexander Skarsgard’s next movies !

Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the U.S., specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. In years past, we have presented the world premieres of There Will Be Blood, Apocalypto, City of Ember and Eagle Eye, while our guest roster has included such talent as Mel Gibson, Bill Murray, Paul Rudd, Bill Pullman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kevin Smith, Jon Favreau, George Romero, Darren Aronofsky and Mike Judge. We also feature world, national and regional premieres of new, up-and-coming genre films.

Fantastic Fest is held each year, primarily at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on South Lamar in Austin, Texas. The Alamo Drafthouse was named the best cinema in America by Entertainment Weekly and features food and drink served to your seat without any disruption of the movie experience.

Anna Paquins next film to be released : Trick 'r Treat
Friday September 25 at 9:45 pm
Director Michael Dougherty Live in Person

Alexander Skarsgard's next film to be released: Metropia
Saturday, September 26 at 6:45 PM and Monday September 28 at 6:30 PM.
Film maker Tarik Saleh will be present at the screening.

For tickets and info Fantastic Fest

My favorite Sookie Stackhouse books are 'Dead in Dixie' and Dead by Day " !

These are the Science Fiction Club editions of the first 5 Sookie books, you can still purchase them through the SFC website HERE

They are my favorites and my autographed copies sit on my desk!

Dead in Dixie

Dead Until Dark: Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bons Temp, Louisiana. You can tell she doesn’t get out much, and it’s not because she isn’t pretty. She is. It’s just that, well, Sookie has this “disability:” she can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill. He’s tall, dark, handsome—and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. Just the guy she’s been waiting for all her life. But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a seriously creepy crowd of friends. So when one of her coworkers is killed, Sookie fears she’s next…. Living Dead in Dallas: Sookie is on a streak of bad luck. First, she finds a body in the backseat of her car. Then she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins—like they didn’t enjoy it! Point is, they saved her life. So when one of them asks for a favor, she complies…and soon Sookie finds herself in Dallas, using her telepathic abilities to search for a missing vampire. There’s just one condition: the vamps must behave, and let the humans involved go unharmed. Which is easier said than done…. Club Dead: Sookie’s vampire boyfriend, Bill, has been a little distant lately. In another state, distant. He’s on a secret assignment for the vampire queen of Louisiana, and only his sinister and sexy boss Eric knows where to find him. Soon, Sookie is off to Jackson, Mississippi, to mingle with the über-underworld at Club Dead—a dangerous little haunt where werewolves, shapeshifters and vampires go to chill out and suck down some type O. But when Sookie finally finds Bill—caught in an act of serious betrayal—she’s not sure whether to save him…or sharpen some stakes. Warning: Explicit sex and language. Jacket art by Julie Bell. (612 pp.) 2001-2003. Exclusive 3-in-1 Hardcover Show...

Dead by Day

Sookie Stackhouse is a smart, savvy waitress in a small Southern town. Her ability to read minds gives humans the creeps. So her old boyfriend, Bill, seems perfect for her: since vampires are dead, Sookie can’t read their minds. At last, she’s with a man who might surprise her. But when the pair breaks up, Sookie hopes she can go back to her uneventful, pre-vamp existence. As if. In Dead to the World, Sookie starts the New Year off with a bang by finding Bill’s “boss,” vampire Eric, running half-naked through the woods. Seems someone stole mighty Eric’s memory—and dropped the gorgeous and now vulnerable vampire right into Sookie’s lap. Eric might end up the only friend Sookie’s got, especially after her brother, Jason, goes missing—and a bloody footprint is found behind his house. Before she can say “Boo!”, Sookie finds herself in the middle of the most violent, bloody turf war that vampires, witches and werewolves have ever known…. In Dead As A Doornail, somebody is gunning for the two-natured, and if Sookie gets in the way, so much the better. Shifters are going down, and her brother, Jason, is a suspect. A wicked new vampire named Mickey has his lethal sights set on Sookie, and her old boyfriend Bill—and newer vampire love, Eric—will fight to the death to save her. Sookie hopes they don’t kill her in the process…. Warning: Explicit sex. Jacket art by Julie Bell. (419 pp.) 2004-2005.

Chomping at the Bit Wondering: Where have All the Black Vampires Gone?

From Soyluv's blog- can anyone list black vampires or lets just say black " supes" we meet in the Sookie books?

I have been watching True Blood since it premiered, unlike some of the legions of never-see-come-sees out there and while I have never read a single Charlaine Harris book yet—surprisingly. I have skimmed them in a book store and I do think that I would enjoy them very much. About as much or even more than I enjoy the shows which are very entertaining. I also watched and enjoyed all seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so go figure that I would jump at the creation of a new vampire show. I may not be at all Gothic and stuff but I do love imaginative story-lines and great characters. Ok, and I might be slightly, admittedly emo too. I’ve come to that realization. In a way that a quirky black West Indian feminist with a bit too much internal angst can be—without the

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Dream on by Aerosmith

Dream on by Aerosmith LYRICS
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