True Blood Season 2 DVD cover art and pre-order

True Blood - The Complete 2nd Season. Of particular interest is the Blu-ray's box, which has a corner banner describing the 5-disc set as having "True Blood Enhanced Viewing" on all 12 episodes exclusively on this version, while presenting them in 1080p "Full HD Video" and DTS-HD Master Audio. "Exclusive New Blu-ray Features" are also mentioned, hinting that we'll be able to sink our teeth into some cool extras. Stay tuned for update about that, just as soon as we dig up the dirt from HBO!

from TVshowsonDVD
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/True-Blood-Season-2-Box-Art/13199



Blu-ray

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Prelude by AFI

Prelude by AFI

Thanks, xXWeGotCharacterXx

Joe Manganiello talks One Tree Hill and True Blood on Podcast January 11

It is safe to say 2010 might just be the year of Joe Manganiello. Not only is he reprising his role as the bartender Owen on One Tree Hill, set to air in February, he also garnered the coveted role of Alcide the werewolf on season three of HBO’s hit series True Blood.

Manganiello is currently in Wilmington filming for One Tree Hill and then will head back to Los Angeles to begin filming True Blood in late January. He paused from his busy schedule to visit the One Tree Hill Podcast to share his news about returning to One Tree Hill and True Blood. He even gave a preview of his Mississippi accent he is trying to perfect for True Blood.

Check out Manganiello’s exclusive interview on the One Tree Hill Podcast January 11.

Leaders In The Arts, Alan Ball The Man Who Saved HBO

HOLLYWOOD —This week our Leaders in the Art goes to the creator and producer of “True Blood.” Alan Ball has been credited with reviving HBO if not outright saving the network from a constant decline in the ratings. The “True Blood” fever pitch is strong not just in the U.S. but internationally. Each week I receive e-mails from fans in Australia, the UK and even Israel stating how much they love the show and the wonderful characters that Alan Ball has brought to the viewers.

Characters like Tara played by Rutina Wesley and Jason played by Ryan Kwanten may be supporting players, but you can count on Mr. Ball putting them front and center at some point every season and that’s what makes his style of writing and producing so accessible to his viewers. The man who is also known as a television genius seems to know his viewers and how to give them exactly what they want, and is able to see better than anyone in the entertainment industry how to excite viewers. Surely there are others, like Bradley P. Bell who helms “B&B” and filmmakers like Clint Eastwood, James Cameron and Henry Jaglom, who know their core audience and know just how to press every button to entertain, engage and tantalize their viewers with so many surprises they feel like it’s Christmas morning watching their shows and films.

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True Blood Music Video of the Day : Gone With The Wind & True Blood - The Wonder of You

Gone With The Wind & True Blood - The Wonder of You
thanks , fangtasiadream

Casting Calls for True Blood # Vote Famous.com

Check out some of the audition tapes we may see some of these folks next season, click on the image to watch the video



http://www.votefamous.com/trueblood/

Crimes by moonlight edited by Charlaine Harris for Mystery Writers of America.

This is a Mystery Writers of America anthology edited by Charlaine to be released April 5th 2010.

Stories include:

Dahlia underground / by Charlaine Harris --
Hixton / by William Kent Krueger --
Small change / by Margaret Maron --
The trespassers / by Brendan DuBois --
Madeeda / by Harley Jane Kozak --
House of horrors / by S. W. Hubbard --
Sift, almost invisible, through / by Jeffrey Somers --
The bedroom door / by Elaine Viets --
The conqueror worm / by Barbara D?Amato --
In memory of the sibylline / by Lou Kemp --
The bloodflower / by Martin Meyers --
The awareness / by Terrie Farley Moran --
Tadesville / by Jack Fredrickson --
Limbo / by Steve Brewer --
The insider / by Mike Wiecek --
Swing shift / by Dana Cameron --
Riding high / by Carolyn Hart --
Grave matter / by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane --
Death of a vampire / by Parnell Hall --
Taking the long view / by Toni L. P. Kelner.

Charlaine talks about editing here

You can pre- order :

Art Directors Guild's 14th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards for 2009.

The nominees were announced today for the Art Directors Guild's 14th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards for 2009.

Single Camera Television Series

"Glee"
Episode: PILOT 
Production Designer: MARK HUTMAN

"Mad Men"
Episode: SOUVENIR 
Production Designer: DAN BISHOP

"Pushing Daisies"
Episode: KERPLUNK
Production Designer: MICHAEL WYLIE

"True Blood"
Episode: NEVER LET ME GO
Production Designer: SUZUKI INGERSLEV

Charlaine Harris 2010 Book release list

2010 Charlaine / Sookie Book Releases:

January 5th: ALL TOGETHER DEAD (trade paperback)

February 2nd: FROM DEAD TO WORSE (trade paperback)

March 2nd: CLUB DEAD (hardcover)

March: Eight Book Collector’s Set (trade paperback), Ace original covers

April 6th: DEAD AND GONE (mass paperback)

April 6th: CRIMES BY MOONLIGHT (Charlaine - editor) (hardcover)

May 4th: DEAD IN THE FAMILY (hardcover)

May25th: CLUB DEAD (tv tie-in edition) (mass paperback)

August 3rd: DEATH’S EXCELLENT VACATION (co-editor: Toni L. P. Kelner) (hardcover)

September: MUST LOVE HELLHOUNDS (anthology w/ Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Meljean Brook) (mass paperback)

October: DEAD AND GONE (trade paperback)

November: GRAVE SECRET (mass paperback)

from Anna's book blog http://annavivian.blogspot.com/

** ALL TOGETHER DEAD (trade paperback) means the TB tie in cover release. This was release last Wednesday!

All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) (Paperback)

Daybreakers opens this weekend

Daybreakers review from Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/daybreakers/index.html?story=/ent/movies/stephanie_zacharek/2010/01/08/daybreakers

Review from Scifi Wire http://scifiwire.com/2010/01/ethan-hawke-daybreakers-i.php

From Denise on Open Salon
http://open.salon.com/blog/densiew/2010/01/09/daybreakers_and_the_vampire_genre

How to Kill a Vampire

How to Kill a Vampire from Sphere.com

(Jan. 8) – They're on TV, at the theater, topping the best-seller list and, if you haven't joined them already, the toothy guy nibbling at your neck is offering you a free lifetime membership.

Killing a lone vampire is at least doable – especially if you're a bubbly blonde from the fictional town of Sunnydale, Calif., and you've got a wooden stake.

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Our friend Meredith Warner who wrote Vampire Taxonomy earlier this year.


I interviewed Meredith here about her book last year"

http://www.lovingtruebloodindallas.com/2009/10/talk-blood-on-blogtalk-radio-returns.html

Buy here great book here:

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Life is beautiful by Vega 4

Life is beautiful by Vega 4

Thanks, LiveLifeLikeL90

True Blood’s Michelle Forbes Adds a New Sexy Psycho to Her Repertoire Read more: True Blood’s Michelle Forbes Adds a New Sexy Psycho to Her Repertoir

What’s with you and playing psychos?
I’m really not sure. Because I keep seeing these words behind my name — sinister, dark, villainous — and look, all work is good, but I have played a lot of other roles, they just don’t have quite the rabid fan base of True Blood. And even though Maryann may have had that reputation, actually acting in True Blood was like being in a playground every day.

How so?
There is that side of her that’s fun, and she’s a party girl that’s just dancing and wearing fabulous clothes — that was the part I loved to do. Everybody goes, “Ooh, that was really frightening and dark.” I didn’t get any of that until we finished filming it and I saw it.

You really didn’t think that cooking a meat pie out of guts and instigating domestic abuse would play out as a dark scene?
That scene seemed to freak everybody out! But playing it, I was really just cooking dinner for my children. A special treat [Creepy laughter]. Maryann just lives in a different place, that’s not dark for her, death isn’t dark for her: She’s immortal. I had the time of my life on True Blood, especially after Durham County and that grim, bleak world we live in.

So you, personally, aren’t a psycho, right?
I’m not like that at all! I was really quite perplexed why Alan [Ball] had this strange idea to cast me as Maryann, because in my eyes, I’m just clumsy and shy. To play this completely uninhibited, extroverted, graceful person — I was really quite perplexed. It was kind of nice to tap into that side. You know, that girly, fluid side.

Do you think True Blood has expanded your fan base?
I guess so. For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like Battlestar, or even a film I did years ago, Kalifornia, people refer to it as a cult film.

Read more: True Blood’s Michelle Forbes Adds a New Sexy Psycho to Her Repertoire -- Vulture
whole interview
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/01/true_bloods_michelle_forbes_ad.html#ixzz0c4VndNhQ

'True Blood' boss previews Sookie's 'intense' new romance by Michael Ausiello

According to True Blood creator Alan Ball, whether you’re a fan of Bill and Sookie or Sookie and Eric, season 3 of the HBO hit is sure to make you very unhappy. And, oddly, very happy, too. “Take a look at Joe [Manganiello],” he teases of the hunk he cast as the psychic’s new love interest, the werewolf Alcide. “Do you think [they] have reason to be worried?”

Rhetorical questions aside, the writer is confident that, just as his new hire won him over, he’ll win over viewers. “We were looking for a guy who was big, sexy, decent and heroic, with some darkness,” he says. “And [Manganiello] showed us all of that in the audition.”

In fact, the One Tree Hill alum so impressed the boss that he wasn’t asked to take a chemistry test with leading lady Anna Paquin. “We do that when we have four or five options,” Ball explains, “and in this instance, I felt like Joe was the only one who came close to what the character needed to be.”

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Some other favorite Vampire book series from the readers

Thanks --here are a few suggested by the readers !

Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1)J.R. Ward



Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, Book 1) by Jeaniene Frost



Some Girls Bite: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel (Paperback)by Chloe Neill

The Church of Skarsgård

Ha ha Bless the AS fans of the world..

Maybe you should join:


The Church of Skarsgård

http://churchofskarsgard.blogspot.com/

Being Human: five reasons why BBC3's drama is essential viewing

It may feature a vampire, but the BBC drama is much more than a British version of True Blood

Don't even think of dismissing it as a British True Blood knock off. Being Human, which follows the misadventures of a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost in a Bristol flatshare, is far more than that – it's Britain's best homegrown cult drama, and BBC3's biggest-ever hit. And this Sunday it kicks off its second series. You can keep up the action via our in-depth episode blogs that will be posted after the shows – but to tempt those of you who missed the first series, here's five reasons why Being Human is unmissable television.
1. You already know it will be good

What do you mean, this recommendation alone is not enough? Being Human's very existence stems from a online petition, and when the controllers listened to their public, they found themselves with a BBC3 audience that regularly edged towards an unprecedented 1m viewers. Not convinced? There's a Facebook group where 38,000 people follow the finest details of its production. When the cast went to Comic-Con last year expecting a low-key launch for series one on BBC America they found a panel audience of 6,000 who already knew the show intimately (a US remake is in the pipeline). And it's still on BBC3, meaning that unlike Gavin and Stacey, and Torchwood, Being Human is not a dirty sellout.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jan/08/being-human