New True Blood Showrunner Named for Season Six

With Alan Ball stepping down as True Blood‘s showrunner (he’ll still be involved, just not as much) next season, we’ve been curious who would step into the role. Deadline reports that Mark Hudis will be taking over as showrunner in season 6.

Hudis has been a writer and co-executive producer on True Blood since season 4. He and Alan Ball previously worked together on Cybill (yes, really) in the ’90s and even further back, they worked together at Ad Age. He’s written four episodes of True Blood so far (season 4’s “Me and the Devil” and “Soul of Fire” and season 5’s “Authority Always Wins” and “Somebody That I Used to Know”), so he should have a pretty good handle on the show.

Although HBO hasn’t officially ordered a sixth season of the show, the fact that they’ve found a showrunner, and signed him to a two-year deal, is very encouraging!