
I don't think it will be a revolutionary statement that how one feels about Alan Ball's new HBO series,
True Blood, will have a lot to do with how one generally feels about vampires. Me, they've never really been my thing; they're OK and all, but the mere mention of fangs wouldn't necessarily get me to tune in. This review, then, is for (and by) the vampire-agnostic.

At
Comic-Con, I was lucky enough to
catch some footage of
True Blood, Alan Ball's (Six Feet Under, American Beauty) HBO adaptation of the
book series by Charlaine Harris, and I was hooked. Now there's a trailer for the series, which premieres on HBO Sept. 7, so we can all discuss the show: whether or not it looks to be of the same caliber as Six Feet Under, how distracting the Southern accent attempts may be, how smitten we are or are not by Anna Paquin in this role, etc.

If you combine small-town drama and sexy vampires, the result would be
True Blood, the forthcoming HBO series from Alan Ball, the man behind
Six Feet Under. The show's cast and creator — along with Charlaine Harris, who wrote the
Southern Vampire book series on which the show is based — showed up at
Comic-Con on Thursday to explain to a cheering crowd what makes their show different from other vampire stories.
True Blood, which premieres Sept.
Aug 10 2007 - 3:23pm by
Molly

Great news for
"Six Feet Under", vampire and Anna Paquin fans alike —
"SFU" creator Alan Ball is coming back to HBO and bringing a little bit of all those things with him. Ball is signed on to create a new series, "True Blood" about modern day vampires who live among humans in Louisiana and survive on a Japanese-manufactured synthetic blood. The show will be a mix of horror and humor, which is exactly the kind of awesome combination that only flies on pay cable. The pilot has already been shot and stars as mentioned Anna Paquin alongside smaller names like
The Starter Wife's Stephen Moyer.