True Blood Has a Second Season!
We can barely contain our excitement here at True-Blood.net! HBO’s Michael Lombardo, president of the Programming Group and West Coast Operations for HBO, announced that HBO has renewed True Blood for a second season. “Alan Ball has done it again – made an addictive series that is unlike any other.” We totally agree, Mr. Lombardo!
Here is the official press release from HBO:
HBO RENEWS TRUE BLOOD, NEW SERIES FROM “SIX FEET UNDER”
CREATOR ALAN BALL, FOR SECOND SEASON,
WITH PRODUCTION TO BEGIN EARLY NEXT YEAR
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.”
“I am thrilled to be able to continue to work with such a talented group of writers, cast and crew to explore the characters and world created by Charlaine Harris in her novels,” Ball said. “It really is a joy to go to work every day and I couldn’t be happier to be back home at HBO.”
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.
Critics across the country in Detroit, Baltimore, Denver and Orlando have proclaimed TRUE BLOOD one of the best new shows on TV. USA Today called it “wildly imaginative,” with “one of the best ensembles of the new series,” while the Washington Post found it “audacious, outrageous and playfully grisly.” TV Guide hailed the show as “graphically sexy and scary, and often wildly funny,” and “a broadly entertaining, deliciously twisted slice of modern Southern Gothic.”
Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, TRUE BLOOD takes place in the not-too-distant future, when vampires have come out of the coffin, thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood that means they no longer need humans for their fix. Set in a backwoods Louisiana town, the show follows the romance between waitress Sookie Stackhouse (played by Anna Paquin), who can read minds, and 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (played by Stephen Moyer). Alan Ball (creator of the Emmy®-winning HBO series “Six Feet Under”) created and executive produced the show, as well as wrote and directed episodes of the series, which is based on the popular Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris.
The cast also includes Ryan Kwanten as Sookie’s brother Jason, Rutina Wesley as her best friend Tara Thornton, Sam Trammell as Sookie’s good-hearted boss Sam Merlotte and Nelsan Ellis as Lafayette Reynolds, a cook at Merlotte’s
Season one credits: TRUE BLOOD is created by and executive produced by Alan Ball; based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris; co-executive producer, Brian Buckner; supervising producer, Nancy Oliver; produced by Carol Dunn Trussell; producer, Alexander Woo; co-producer, Raelle Tucker.
Season one directors: Alan Ball, John Dahl, Nick Gomez, Anthony M. Hemingway, Michael Lehmann, Daniel Minahan, Nancy Oliver, Marcos Siego, Scott Winant. Season one writers: Alan Ball, Brian Buckner, Chris Offutt, Nancy Oliver, Raelle Tucker, Alexander Woo.
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WOOHOO! More Sookie and Bill and Sam and Eric and everybody!
oh! this has made my day! thank you hbo!
i just wrote them and told them good things!
i just read the news about a second season of true blood, that’s great! and after only two episodes. way to go .
WOW!!!! and after only 2 episodes, THANK YOU HBO.
YES, That is great!!! Hopefully seasons 3, 4, 5, and so and so forth will come about as well.
I’m so excited that trueblood gets a secnd season..and that is based on the merit of TWO episodes. Thank You HBO! I hope they get to do 8 seasons to keep up with the book series. There’s so much information and exciting things they can play upon for the show!
Amazing series. I’m just hoping that Bill is around for many episodes to come. life (or unlife!!) would not be the same without watching him every Sunday (and watching past episodes on Tivo every other night).
I’m estatic True Blood will have a 2nd season in June!! I have been all over my Uverse looking for it. I watched 6 epizodes back to back the first time I saw it. I couldn’t get enough.