Make-Up Artist magazine’s ongoing Web feature “Tales from the Set” features True Blood.

Make-Up Artist magazine’s Web feature “Tales from the Set” features True Blood. Watch here

True Blood's Sam Trammell : Authors Attempt to Demystify Hollywood Hiring Process

If the proof is in the pudding, then the co-authors of Hire Me, Hollywood! Your Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Most Exciting–and Unexpected–Jobs in Show Business certainly seem to have sufficient subject matter expertise. Mark Scherzer, now based in New York, works for Reelz Channel as a writer-producer, while Keith Fenimore tools around daily for some guy named Howard Stern.
Among those interviewed for the book are Stan Lee, True Blood actor Sam Trammell, Entertainment Tonight co-host Mark Steines and Live with Regis and Kelly producer Michael Gelman. Scherzer came to LA from Montreal way back in 1991 and ahead of a book signing in his hometown this weekend, he confirmed to the Montreal Gazette that two golden rules still hold true:

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Hey True Blood-- why didn't you film any of Season 4 in the South ?

This is the first time since the True Blood series  started 4 years ago that they haven't filmed any of of this season's  episodes ( at least we've not see them so far) here in the South. (Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi )
I wonder why ..  ?

I know you'll remember that in Season 3, they filmed the great Russell Edgington mansion scenes in Mississippi. In Season 2,  they  filmed the Maryann wrecked Bon Temps and the Bill kidnapping in Louisiana and the Godric burning scene here in Dallas. And of course in Season 1 there was tons of scenes filmed in and around Shreveport and in central Louisiana.

Sookie's house (external) and cemetery have always existed as facades in Malibu,  Merlottes's  bar sits on Warner Brother's back lot and Fangtasia is really a bar in Long Beach but the exteriors for downtown Bon Temps, Jason's and Bill's house all really exist and those scenes were all originally filmed in Louisiana.
I have been to these locations... check out posts below.

I love when they get off the LA movie studio back lots and near LA locations and really film in the south.  I think spending the extra time and money to film here has added lots of authenticity to the series and I hope they get back to filming down here soon,  ya'll.

I have lots of blog posts about behind the scenes filming and I have visited most of the filming locations.

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Suzuki Ingerslev and decorating King Bill’s House ( Video)

Making True Blood: Bill's Contractor

Stacy at Vampire Craftin' has found the Eric's fangtastic red quilt

How much fun is this ?? Thanks Stac

In last Sunday's Episode of TrueBlood "I'm Alive and on Fire" (Season 4) Sookie covers Eric with a lovely Red Quilt after he went for a swim in the daylight.  I thought how pretty I love the red with simple embordeiry.  After some searching I found the quilt  ....
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'True Blood' set design sees changes on the home front

Man, this is so cool !

As "True Blood" speeds along into Season 4, witches may have joined the cast of vampires, shape shifters, werewolves, fairies and cat people, but changes on the domestic front are what have really put design fans under a spell.
In painstaking detail, "True Blood" production designer Suzuki Ingerslev answered questions about the inspirations and resources used to create striking residences for the show's characters including Bill Compton (played by Stephen Moyer, above right), Vampire King of Louisiana, and Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard, above left), now landlord with a swanky bachelor crypt in Sookie Stackhouse's family home. Chief among the topics in our email exchange with Ingerslev: the formerly mud-encrusted home of Sookie (Anna Paquin, right, with Eric).

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True Blood behind the scenes : the making of Jessica

I haven't looked at this in a long time ..I will try to post some of these little gems again this season.

True Blood behind the scenes; Bill's house, the new and improved ?

Well--- I love the old house and I have been to the house many, many times. I even had fans from all over the country fly to Dallas and we've taken driving tours of Louisiana and many of the locations used in the filming of True Blood.

Bill house is real and was in bad shape when Ball and True Blood first filmed in it 2007 - it has since undergone a massive renovation but it is not the house used this season  in the scene in the Season 4 when Sookie walks over to talk to King Bill.

You can see the new house in the photo it is obviously not the same old ( real house ) of Bills . I bet it's a facade that has been built on a back lot or maybe on the property where Sookie's house and cemetery are located.

This photo is from a recent visit - you can see all the construction and you can see how the left side of the house really looks. The big difference is the height of the new " fake" Bill's house,  its so low the actual house is very high off the ground. 

Awww .. everyone say awwww together. Here is the first peek we get of Bill's house from Season 1 episode 2.

The real Bill's house is called Roseneath Plantation and has been owned by the Means family since it was built in 1846. I have lots more about it here 

Ep. 38 Clip: Sookie Sees Bill's Revamped House

True Blood Filming - bring on the witch war

Probably Charlaine's best written fight scene in all the Sookie books

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True Blood Season 4 in production : Watching the Filming of “True Blood”

Last Wednesday evening I got a text from the owner of POP Champagne & Dessert Bar – my very favorite restaurant and the spot where the Grim Cheaper and I held the rehearsal dinner for our wedding last August – alerting me to the fact that the hit HBO television series True Blood would be filming at his eatery the following evening beginning at 9 p.m.  He invited me to come down to watch and even though I’ve never seen even one episode of the vampire series, I was beyond excited!  I immediately called up Mike, from MovieShotsLA, and asked him to join me as True Blood is his very favorite show.  So, the next night at around 8 p.m. the two of us headed out to POP and were floored to see those ubiquitous yellow filming signs that I so love on the streets surrounding the restaurant.

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'True Blood' Casting Director to Speak at Actorfest LA

Crowds at Actorfest NY 2010.

Casting director Junie Lowry Johnson -- whose credits include "True Blood," "Big Love," and "Desperate Housewives" -- has joined the Actorfest LA workshop "Television Casting: From Guest Starring to Going to Network."

The workshop also includes Casting Directors Dorian Frankel ("Parks and Recreation," "Curb Your Enthusiasm"); John Frank Levey ("Southland," "ER"); Jason La Padura ("The Event," "Heroes"); and Lori Openden, Senior VP of Casting for the CW Network. Sarah Kuhn, Back Stage's Film & TV Writer, will moderate.

The "Television Casting" workshop will take place from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in the Fashion Theater. Here is a brief description:

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Spinal Yanks and AIDS Burgers: an interview with True Blood scribe Alexander Woo

Alexander Woo, a writer and producer on True Blood since Season One, gives APA a glimpse into his writing world.

True Blood scribe and producer, Alexander Woo, visited USC for a conversation with MPW faculty member Prince Gomolvilas, as part of MPW's panel and discussion series featuring prominent professional writers in different genres and form. On his way to the discussion, Woo graciously stopped by to chat with Asia Pacific Arts about his experience as a playwright, his journey into television writing, and his adventures in the world of Southern vampers and mythical critters.

APA: Tell us a little bit about your background. Where did you grow up, and how did you get your start as a writer?
Alexander Woo: My family is Cantonese from Hong Kong, and they came to the United States in the 50s. I was born and raised in New York and suburban New Jersey, and I was in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton, and that's where I first got the idea that I could possibly write professionally. Then, I attended drama school at Yale, and for the next seven years after that, I was "working" as a playwright. I use the term loosely, because no one actually earns an income strictly from playwriting, but that's how I met Prince [Gomolvilas] around 1999.
There was a certain kind of parallel kinship in our styles of writing. We both like to use humor, and at the time, not that many Asian American playwrights used comedy in their work. Back in the day, most of the work I was seeing was quite humorless. When I think about Asian American theatre then, I see a stage, four pools of light, and four Asian women crying: "Why are you doing this to me?!" [he says in a pitch-perfect Cantonese accent, while lifting his chin up to the ceiling and waving his fists in the air]

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13 True Blood Houses – for any taste

Sookie's is house is a built set and the Carmilla hotel is just was cgi created image but the otheres are all real places. check here for more

I recently made up my mind to buy a house, but the one thing that has been troubling me is how will i decorate it, what will it say about me?. As a big True Blood fan i am always re watching all of series one and two and some of the things that really stand out i find are the deep south locations, the houses and locations really give you a wonderful insight into the characters and who they are. For example Bill’s house is as dark, brooding and melancholy as the vampire himself. Fangtastia is as wild and unpredictable in its decor as it’s owners Eric and Pam are and Sookies Grandmas house is just as wholesome and cluttered as poor Sookie Stackhouses mind.

Here are a collection of fantastic houses from the True Blood Series 1 through 3, to both inspire those wanting to change the look of their homes, and those looking to step into the dark side of themselves.
First is possibly my favorite house  -
1. The home of Queen Sophie Anne of Louisiana

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True Blood : How to talk like a vampire, and anyone else

(CNN) -- "You are my miracle, Sookie. For the first time in 140 years, I felt something I thought had been lost to me forever. I love you."

Bill Compton's sexy, antiquated Southern drawl comes through loud and clear when he speaks these words: he says "miracle" as "mir-uh-kal," and drops the "r" in "years" and the "g" in "something" when he tells Sookie Stackhouse that he loves her in "True Blood," which just ended its third season.

But that's not how the show's leads Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin, now married, speak in real life. Paquin comes from New Zealand. Moyer is British. Their speech is nothing like wide-eyed Southern waitress or the vampire of over 170 years from Louisiana.

How do they do it? Behind the scenes of many television shows and movies, dialect coaches are working with actors and actresses to perfect their speech patterns, getting them to sound as close to the director's vision as possible.

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True Blood is STILL Killing It!

Exactly one year ago today, I took an in depth look at different pieces of HBO’s integrated marketing campaign for True Blood. The show is now in its third season and HBO is still continuing to make the vampire world of Bon Temps a reality. Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly love their marketing any more, they bring in baby vamp Jessica and her blog.
Background for those who have still not seen the show: Jessica Hamby is a new vampire (hence the “baby vamp” nickname) who was turned (i.e. made into a vampire) at only age 17. She is struggling both with her new-found undead status as well as your typical teenage woes.

First of all, Jessica is the perfect character to have an online blog. She is probably one of the least complicated and most relate-able characters on the show. And we know that the Internet is the perfect place for a 17 year old to pour her (non beating) heart out. She is the most believable, even in the most ridiculous situations. Her panic in hiding/disposing of a dead body before maker/homeowner Bill finds out was actually quite similar to trying to clean up after a party before your parents get home. We feel for her as she struggles to find love and acceptance, something we all understand, living or not.

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True Blood: Behind the Scenes with Costume Designer Audrey Fisher

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Blood on the Tracks

How do you incinerate a vampire at sunrise, and twist a head 180 degrees? These and more otherworldly challenges are met head on by directors on the gothic TV series True Blood.

By Steve Pond

On a movie lot tucked away in a nondescript area of West Hollywood, the director of True Blood huddles with actor Alexander Skarsgård on the soundstage where a vampire bar called Fangtasia sits. At the same time, on an adjoining stage, the director of True Blood walks through a basement set with his production designer and AD, trying to decide if a set of shackles should hang from an overhead pipe or be secured to pillars. No, True Blood hasn’t found the secret to putting a director in two places at once. Instead, this is simply business as usual on the lot that’s home to the HBO series about vampires, shape-shifters and other assorted denizens of the night who make their homes in a fictional little Louisiana town called Bon Temps.

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True Blood Inside the Episode – I Got A Right to Sing The Blues Episode 3.06

Ep. 30: Inside the Episode

'True Blood' runs through Alan Ball

Stephen Moyer is baring his fangs like he means it. Over and over and over again. In character as the 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton, the star of HBO's campy drama "True Blood" is hovering midair, poised for a real throw-down.

Fans won't see this scene for several more weeks, so revealing the bizarre and complex events that have led to it would only spoil the fun. In this densely plotted series, which recently garnered its first Emmy nomination in the drama series category, each episode is so revelatory that HBO has built its own wiki to help fans keep up. So far, 11.7 million of them are up to the task, tuning in each week for what show creator Alan Ball calls the " 'I can't believe I'm watching this' moments."

On this massive West Hollywood soundstage, the mood grows tense as Moyer's flying rig repeatedly sends him swaying ever so slightly off his mark. The crew eventually pulls it together. And to his credit, Moyer is believably vicious every time. After all, in the "True Blood" universe, the timing of a "fang bare" can make or break a scene.

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Stephen Moyer Injured On ‘True Blood’ Set

True Blood star Stephen Moyer suffered further damage to his already-injured knee during filming on the TV hit earlier this year when was thrown off a horse in a stunt scene gone wrong.
The actor was forced to halt filming on an episode of the vampire show's third season after he was thrown to the ground and landed on his knee. The joint was already fragile from a previous injury - Moyer underwent surgery for a torn meniscus last October.
He explains, "I had an accident on this season of True Blood. I rode behind a stuntman and the horses didn't want us there and we were in this forest. I came off and he came off and the horse went back and I landed on this two-foot square piece of concrete and it's the only piece of concrete in the whole forest - straight on my knee."
However, Moyer has assured fans he's fully recovered, adding of the initial pain, "Yeah, it hurt."

**This is the only scene so far in the season where we see SM on a horse with a stunt man ( RE)