True Blood scores 2nd Season already!

Yippee! More hot Vampire Love!

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17, 2008 - HBO has renewed the new drama series TRUE BLOOD for a second season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, Programming Group and West Coast Operations. Created by Alan Ball, the series will begin production of new episodes early next year in Los Angeles, with debut set for summer 2009.

"We are absolutely thrilled that the critics and our viewers have embraced TRUE BLOOD," noted Lombardo. "Alan Ball has done it again - made an addictive series that is unlike any other."

The Sept. 7 debut episode is proving to be a hit with HBO audiences, attracting more than four million viewers to date, while the debut of the second episode on Sept. 14 posted an unprecedented 24% gain in viewers over the first week's debut.

True Blood

Sunday night on HBO has once again become must watch TV for me. I am officially totally obsessed with the new series True Blood by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under). The series is based on the books by Charlaine Harris, and in them vampires have "come out of the coffin", as it were, with the Japanese invention of a synthetic blood called Tru Blood. Anna Paquin plays a telepathic waitress in a small Louisiana town, and she is attracted to the vampire (Stephen Moyer) who moves into town, because she can't read his mind.

Now, this is HBO we're talking about so there is hot sex, nudity and violence. Did I mention that it's hot? That Stephen Moyer is hot as Bill Compton, the vampire? HBO has aired two episodes so far, and unfortunately iTunes is not carrying it yet. Watch the trailer below. Yowza!