SPOILERS: Bill’s Got A Secret, Plus Eric’s Hooking Up With…?

Ausiello has a couple of meaty True Blood spoilers for us this week, including more clues about Bill’s storyline and a non-denial about Eric.

Question: Season 3 has barely started, but I am dying for some True Blood news. Got any to share? —Kelly
Ausiello: Exec producer Alan Ball teases that a big secret Bill’s “been carrying with him gets revealed at the end of the season.” That noise you hear is the sound of me dipping into the Ausiello Files archives and going Hmm…

Question: Have you received confirmation from Alan Ball that Talbot and Eric will get, ahem, down to business on True Blood this season? —Rob
Ausiello: No, but I haven’t received a denial from him, either. “I think one of the things about being a vampire and living for 100 years is you pretty much try everything,” Ball says. “Whether or not [Talbot and Eric] end up getting together I can’t reveal. I’ll definitely tell you that this season is pretty pansexual.” Yeah, got that bit from the first two episodes.

Regarding Bill, in this week’s podcast, Liz and I speculated about whether we’re about to find out that Bill’s presence in Bon Temps was about more than just returning to his birthplace to mainstream. It certainly seems like we’re being set up for a big reveal after seeing the Stackhouse family tree and newspaper clippings about Sookie in Bill’s office, but will it be the same secret revealed in the books?