Thursday, June 4, 2009

Dallas celebrates the return of True Blood with a Contest # 2

Extending time to submit you entries until 2 pm June 5th.

Dallas celebrates the return of True Blood with a Contest

Congrats to Kristin for winning contest #1

Contest #2

I think we should do a character study question like we've been doing with the Sookie purse contents.

Q: Name at least 3 things in Sam Merlotte's top drawer of his desk and name one CD in his CD player. ( you can tell me a little about why you think these things and I will do a post from the answers or just tell me the things )

Email your answers to Dallas (truebloodindallas@gmail.com)
Put the Contest #2 in subject area !

Good Luck

Email: "Dallas " at Loving True Blood in Dallas

Here is list of available prizes ! HERE
SOME of these prizes WILL be offered everyday - NOT all the prizes.(we randomly draw 4 available prizes each day so all the "good prizes" won't disappear the first few days )

Each day (June 3rd - June 14th) there will be a chance for you to win a prize.
The entrants will be randomly numbered and the winner will be chosen by the Twitter character @JessicaHamby each evening.

That days contest ends 2 pm central cst the following day ( contest will run daily from about 2pm - 11 pm cst)

You foreign folks are welcome to play but if you win you will have to pay postage I can't offer to mail stuff internationally, sorry.

Stephen Moyer, Bill Compton on Alan Ball's hit HBO TV series True Blood will be appearing on The View on Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Stephen Moyer ,Bill Compton on Alan Ball's hit HBO TV series True Blood will be appearing on The View on Wednesday, June 10, 2009

"The View" features Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. It's the original forum in which real women discuss everyday issues and share their no-holds-barred opinions and engage in colorful conversations. Since its launch, "The View" has received 24 Daytime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Talk Show. The show has received numerous nominations, including eleven consecutive nominations for Outstanding Daytime Talk Show and twelve consecutive nominations for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Visit "The View" on the Web at abc.com/theview. The program is broadcast in HDTV with 5.1-channel surround sound and is currently in its 12th season on ABC. "The View" is now available to watch online daily at 4:00 p.m., ET/1:00 p.m., PT on the ABC Digital Full Episode Player at ABC.com.

Scheduled guests for the week of June 8-12 are as follows (subject to change):

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 - Kanye West; Stephen Moyer ("True Blood").

Vampires and Dental Work, Together At Last

The theme today for videos seems to be glamour. We saw how it can be used to save human lives. Now, in this clip, we see how it can be used in place of anesthesia during a dentist visit.

Damn. Wonder what her "pleasant experience" was.


http://bloodcopy.com/

What you might have missed from Loving True Blood in Dallas blog yesterday

Loving True Blood in Dallas" - 13 new articles

True Blood's Anna Paquin : Emmy Roundtable: Drama actresses
Charlaine Harris to make cameo in True Blood Season Two
Dallas celebrates the return of True Blood with a Contest # 1
Dallas Celebrates True Blood Season 2 with a prize a day !
True Blood BloodCopy: Glamour-ama
True Blood Video : Tara character tease
True Blood Interview with Ryan Kwanten
True Blood: "She's Given Him Reason to Live Again"
True Blood creator Alan Ball reveals what's coming in season two
"True Blood" Season 1: Why would anyone want Edward when they can have Vampire Bill from "True Blood"?
Gawker : All the Summer TV You'll Need to Watch
True Blood Music Video of the Day: Wonderwall by Oasis

True Blood: The Second Season is "Beyond Amazing" (And, Perhaps, Full Of, Uhh, Bloody Cheese)

from BuddyTV

I'm checking my watch and, well, we have ten days before True Blood. Wheee, I say. There's another interview with Stephen Moyer from the folks at E!, and from the looks of it, it'll seem that the second season will be oozing--no pun intended--with hot loving. Perhaps you can throw the emphasis on hot, judging from the way Alan Ball made things, but this time you can expect to throw the emphasis on the love part. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Stephen is actually hooking up with Anna Paquin...

To sum up the new season, then, which will premiere on June 14, he can simply say this: "[It's] beyond amazing ... more than anybody imagined. Honestly, I came out of the screening the other day with my jaw on the floor. And I've read it, you know."

Bill's storyline? "There's no getting away from the fact that Bill is a vampire ... [but] he wishes not for a human life, but for a moral life. It's not that he doesn't want to feed on blood, it's that he doesn't want it to involve killing--but in his first season he kills as many people as the murderer ... He's torn. He's not going to do it just for the sake of it. But if somebody hurts him or hurts his family or hurts his loved one ... they're history."

And for him and Eric? "Certainly in this season there is a moral hierarchy ... There are things you do and things you don't and if you do something within the vampire world that is f--ed up and against your fellow vamp, you are going to suffer for that. I kind of like that idea that, you know, anything goes, but if you cross a line, you're going to suffer for it. Whether Eric is adhering to those vampire morals is important."

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True Blood 2009 Emmy Awards :List of Submissions For Nomination


Below is a list of the drama and comedy shows, stars, and guest stars who have been submitted for consideration in the 2009 Prime Time Emmy Awards, coming this fall.

Here

List of True Blood submissions

DRAMA SERIES

True Blood

LEAD ACTRESS
True Blood (Anna Paquin)

LEAD ACTOR
True Blood (Stephen Moyer)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
True Blood (Rutina Wesley)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
True Blood (Nelsan Ellis)
True Blood (Ryan Kwanten)
True Blood (Alexander Skarsgard)
True Blood (Sam Trammell)

HBO's 'True Blood' has oblique local angle in Hawaii

from Honolulu Star Bulletin

You have to hand it to HBO for its constant stream of fresh, cutting-edge material. "True Blood," a series that will launch its 12-episode second season on June 14, contains a local (sort of) angle. One of the show's regulars is Carrie Preston, who is married to Michael Emerson (Benjamin Linus on "Lost," and a part-time Hawaii resident for one more year). Preston doesn't get the screen time of series star Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress who can hear people's thoughts), but when her ditzy, highly sensitive waitress (Arlene Fowler) is on, she often steals the scene.

Like all things vampire, "True Blood" has a rabid cult following with popular online discussion threads. But it's also earned favorable reviews with compelling plot lines, unpredictable characters with humor and depth, supernatural elements, shape shifters (who transform themselves from animal to human and back again!), religious fanatics, vampire news updates and provocative sex and violence -- sometimes intertwined, always with fangs and typically bathed in blood.

It helps to watch some of the first season, which came out on DVD and Blu-Ray May 19, or catch the series recap narrated by show creator Alan Ball ("Six Feet Under"), who explains the characters and plot lines for those new to the serial.

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True Blood nominated for Television Critics Assn. Award



OUTSTANDING NEW PROGRAM OF THE YEAR:

“Fringe” (Fox)
“The Mentalist” (CBS)
“No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” (HBO)
“True Blood” (HBO)
“United States of Tara” (Showtime) 



Dallas celebrates the return of True Blood with a Contest # 2


Dallas celebrates the return of True Blood with a Contest

Congrats to Kristin for winning contest #1

Contest #2

I think we should do a character study question like we've been doing with the Sookie purse contents.

Q: Name at least 3 things in Sam Merlotte's top drawer of his desk and name one CD in his CD player. ( you can tell me a little about why you think these things and I will do a post from the answers or just tell me the things )

Email your answers to Dallas (truebloodindallas@gmail.com)
Put the Contest #2 in subject area !

Good Luck

Email: "Dallas " at Loving True Blood in Dallas

Here is list of available prizes ! HERE
SOME of these prizes WILL be offered everyday - NOT all the prizes.(we randomly draw 4 available prizes each day so all the "good prizes" won't disappear the first few days )

Each day (June 3rd - June 14th) there will be a chance for you to win a prize.
The entrants will be randomly numbered and the winner will be chosen by the Twitter character @JessicaHamby each evening.

That days contest ends 11 pm central cst ( contest will run daily from about 4pm - 11 pm cst)

You foreign folks are welcome to play but if you win you will have to pay postage I can't offer to mail stuff internationally, sorry.

Fans Question and Answers with Alan Ball

Some more juicy tidbits about True Blood Season 2

Question: Please give us fang bangers some True Blood scoop. I cannot wait for season 2. Will some of it take place in Dallas like the second book did? --Jessie
Ausiello:
Yep. In the new season's fourth episode, Sookie, Bill, and their adoptive vamp Jessica (played by the awesome Deborah Ann Woll) wing it to Dallas, but there's a surprise waiting for them at the airport. Later in the episode, an even bigger shock awaits Sookie when a, ahem, special visitor drops by her hotel room.

Question: Not that I don't appreciate the awesome True Blood scoop we got last week, it's just that I need, really need, scoop on Sookie/Eric. Is anything gonna happen between them? --Sofia
Ausiello:
Something happens in the first four episodes that may lead one to believe Eric has eyes for someone else (hint: it's a dude!). But maybe I'm reading too much into it.

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/

Charlaine in True Blood Season 2 Finale

The New York Daily News said series creator Alan Ball told reporters Wednesday he doesn't really discuss the direction of the show with Harris, but he also said he keeps in touch with her and she will appear on the vampire saga's second season finale.

"She actually is going to come out and do a cameo probably in the last episode of the season," said Ball. "But I do think it's best to just respect that boundary. Maybe I'm just being chicken because I don't want to hear that she hates this or she hates that."

Novelist behind HBO's 'True Blood' planning guest appearance

New York Daily News

Though season two of HBO's "True Blood" will further diverge from the Charlaine Harris series of books that inspired it, the author herself will be making a guest appearance in the season finale.

Series creator Alan Ball told reporters Wednesday that though he and Harris don't talk much about the direction of the show, they keep in touch.

"She actually is going to come out and do a cameo probably in the last episode of the season," said Ball. "But I do think it's best to just respect that boundary. Maybe I'm just being chicken because I don't want to hear that she hates this or she hates that."

"True Blood," returning June 14 at 9 p.m., stars Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress in the small Southern town of Bon Temps, La., where vampires and humans are trying to co-exist. It also features Stephen Moyer as Sookie's undead love interest, Bill Compton.

Vampires are a hot commodity in pop culture right now, thanks to the "Twilight" phenomenon, the CW's recent addition of "Vampire Diaries" to its fall season and "True Blood." And though Ball isn't a "Twilight" fan, he doesn't see a problem with a crowded market.

"I can't really talk that much about 'Twilight' because I haven't read any of the books or seen the movie, but I personally don't really understand why you would have vampires in something that's basically about abstinence," said Ball.

Transportation Vampire style from True Blood Bloodcopy









We've always heard about Eric's red Corvette but didn't expect a Mini or Harley.

TV actress Ashley Jones, from soap to 'Blood'

New York Times

Ashley Jones stars on the world's most popular soap opera, "The Bold and the Beautiful," and will join the cast of HBO's red-hot vampire saga "True Blood" for its second season, but what she really wanted to play was the violin.

Seriously.

"That's true, and it led to me acting," the actress said. "It's just one of those things. The first thing I remember wanting to do in life was to play the violin. And I very much got to pursue that. When you're very young and you're blessed with parents who allow you to try what interests you, that opens a door where you think, 'Oh, wow, there's more out there than I thought.'

"Most 3-year-olds want to be doctors or teachers or a fireman or a nurse. Not many 3-year-olds say 'I want to be a violinist.' So from a very young age my mind was opened up to different possibilities than the norm, especially growing up in Tennessee and Texas.

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Romance Twilight fans get chance to cruise with vampire film stars

True Blood Cruise ? hmmm on the Red River in Shreveport ? From Guardian UK

Fans will get to hobnob with Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz, who play Alice and Emmett Cullen in the hit film, on a week-long cruise to the town where Twilight was shot

It sounds like the perfect setting for a trashy slasher flick: a group of teenagers book a trip-of-a-lifetime cruise around the stunning coastlines of Washington and Alaska, only to become suspicious when their fellow travellers all turn out to be unnaturally pale, spookily youthful types who appear to be obsessed by vampires.

Fortunately, the inaugural week-long Twilight fan cruise, which will set sail in August 2010, is only likely to be terrifying if you are the sort of person who has anxiety attacks at the thought of being stuck in a confined space with thousands of Robert Pattinson fans. Featuring a trip to the town of Falls, Washington, where Catherine Hardwicke's global hit was filmed, as well as guest appearances from stars Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz, who play members of the vampire family at the centre of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling books, it's being billed as "the ultimate convention at sea for Twilight fans".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jun/03/twilight-film-fans-cruise

Guillermo Del Toro on Vampires


Guillermo Del Toro on Vampires from Time Magazine
By Gilbert Cruz Wednesday, Jun. 03, 2009

Vampires these days are sorta lovelorn and wimpy. Not Guillermo del Toro's. His will suck you dry with a stinger-tipped tentacle. It's not really the kind of stuff teen girls want to read. But Del Toro, director of the Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth — as well as The Devil's Backbone, Blade II and the Hellboy series — isn't trying to appeal to the Stephenie Meyer set with his new novel. The first in a trilogy (co-written with author Chuck Hogan), The Strain opens with a plane that lands in New York City, lights off, windows drawn, everyone seemingly dead. Naturally, it gets worse from there. Del Toro spoke to TIME from New Zealand, where he is currently working on the film version of J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit, about bloodsuckers, swine flu and his childhood hero.

Celebrated director Guillermo Del Toro talks to TIME's Gilbert Cruz about his new vampire novel, The Strain, and how his nosferatu are no tween girl's fantasy

Over the next decade, you've got about five movie projects signed up. How did you find the time to start a trilogy of vampire novels?
I started it actually about four years ago. The idea behind The Strain was to try and marry old Eastern European folklore with an urban procedural feel. Which is very much the way, back in the day, Dracula must have read to contemporary readers. It was a very now, in the moment, modern novel. And I wanted to recapture that a little bit.

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True Blood Music Video of The Day: You Found Me by The Fray



You Found Me by
The Fray
Thanks, Sevenkell