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“True Blood” came out as a winner at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards which was held on Saturday, March 19 in New York. The vampire drama had Denis O’Hare, who portrays gay vampire king on the show, to receive the top drama series award. In winning the trophy, “True Blood” had to beat “Brothers & Sisters“, “Degrassi”, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Pretty Little Liars“.
Another TV winner was “30 Rock” which picked up the honor for Outstanding Individual Episode in a series without a regular LGBT character. Its fourth season’s episode called “Klaus and Greta” won against episodes of “Bored to Death“, “Law & Order“, “Drop Dead Diva” and “Law & Order: UK“.
Meanwhile, Anderson Cooper’s “360″ was honored as Outstanding TV Journalism for highlighting on “Gay Teen Suicides”.
Additional kudos, including Outstanding Comedy Series would be handed out later in Los Angeles on April 10 at the Westin Bonaventure and on May 14 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.
True Blood Season 4 Episode 1 She’s Not There : Evan Rachel Wood has said “True Blood” fans can expect an “epic” fight between her character, Queen Sophie Anne of Louisiana, and Stephen Moyer’s Bill Compton, when the show returns this summer. 
“Of course there will be a resolution. And we’ll just have to wait and see what happens, but it will be epic,” Evan said of the fight scene between the two vampires that began just as Season 3 of the Alan Ball series wrapped up last fall, when asked by reporters following her 2011 Winter TCA panel for her HBO miniseries “Mildred Pierce.”
While she couldn’t reveal plot details, she said she has a feeling Queen Sophie Anne, who makes her living illegally pushing vampire blood, may have a reversal of fortunes.
“I think she’ll get what she deserves,” Evan laughed.
Evan revealed she’s filmed one episode so far, reuniting with Stephen.
“It’s been great. It’s one of the funnest sets I’ve worked on,” she said of being back. “[There's]‘s just always something crazy [happening].”
There will be “lots of blood,” she added.
The actress, who is also cast in a March 2011 HBO miniseries, “Mildred Pierce,” said she’s glad to be back on set of the vampire show.
“‘True Blood’ is just a blast; it’s fun; it’s scary; it’s sexy; it’s hilarious,” she said.
The fourth season’s casting of “True Blood” is shaping up with three new additions. To play recurring characters on the HBO show when it returns next year are Christina Moore, Neil Hopkins and Chris Butler who are the alumni of “That ’70s Show“, “Lost” and “The Good Wife” respectively.
Moore, according to Deadline, is playing Suzanne McKittrick, “a WASPy Texas housewife who possesses certain special abilities.” When reporting the casting call, EW also noted that Suzanne will throw a hootenanny to bond with ‘her kind’. The actress is still attached to “Hawthorne” but she would shoot her part during the TNT series’ break which is before spring.
Meanwhile, Hopkins is to take the role of Claudine’s mysterious twin brother named Claude. In the book, Claude is a distant cousin to Sookie’s father and is described absolutely breathtaking for women. However his interest is for men and he works as a stripper at a club in Monroe called Hooligans.
Butler is cast as Emory, “a prissy and conservative shapeshifter with his own agenda.” Little is known about this character.
The show has found actors for several of its major characters in season 4 but is yet to announce who will be an Asian-American cage fighter and Queen Mab.
For showing a strong number at the beginning of season 3, “True Blood” gets another season. HBO has just announced on Monday, June 21 that it renews the vampire series for a fourth season, ordering a full 12-episode season. Like usual, production will start early next year for a summer 2011 premiere.
“The new season of ‘True Blood’ is off to a terrific start, as enthusiasm for this unique show continues to build among both subscribers and critics,” said HBO Programming President Michael Lombardo. “We’re looking forward to more chills from Alan Ball and his gifted team next year.”
The third season opener drew 5.1 million viewers. Although not the highest number that the series has, it is an increase of 38% from the second season premiere.
Ball himself is thrilled at the thought of adapting more stories from the books by Charlaine Harris. He said, “I am beyond thrilled to be able to continue working with this amazing cast and crew. This is the most fun I have ever had.”
A graphic oral sex scene in cult vampire TV drama “True Blood” had to be axed because cameras couldn’t get close enough to the action. Show regular Stephen Moyer reveals he and real-life lover Anna Paquin were game to get the vampire/human sex session on film, but it technically wasn’t possible.
He explains, “My character would have had his head between Anna’s character’s legs. It was scrapped because of technical difficulty getting the shot with the number of camera set ups they had planned – as opposed to because it was too graphic.”
The third season of “True Blood” has been kicked off with the airing of “Bad Blood” on June 13. The TV series has just been renewed for a fourth season with a principal photography to be started early 2011.
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Two fresh clips from the fifth episode of HBO’s popular TV series “True Blood” season 2 have just arrived. One of the footage gives a look at Steve Newlin when he introduces Sookie Stackhouse’s brother, Jason, to several weapons, which can be used to kill vampires. Meanwhile, the other clip sees Sookie’s encounter with one of her own.
Titled “Never Let Me Go“, the 5th episode of “True Blood” season 2 will be broadcast on Sunday, July 19. In this new episode, Anna Paquin, Ryan Kwanten and Michael McMillian will reprise their roles as Sookie, Jason and Steve respectively.
In another news, “True Blood” will participate at 2009 San Diego Comic Con on Saturday, July 25 at Ballroom 20. Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin are two of the series’ cast who will attend the event.
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Not that the first three episodes haven’t been great, gory, sexy fantasy fun, or that it hasn’t been a pleasure to see new characters arrive and new stories begin. But with Sunday’s episode, the first this season written by creator Alan Ball, you can just feel the show’s main plots kick into another gear.
That is, by the way, par for the True Blood course: It was around this same time last go-round that Gran died, the event that jump-started the first season. Nothing quite that series-shaking happens Sunday, but major answers do arrive, including some important new information about that heart-coveting monster, as major shifts send the characters off and running in new directions.
For Sookie and her beloved blood-sucker, Bill (the perfectly teamed Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer), that means a trip to Dallas to hunt for a kidnapped vampire sheriff, with Bill’s vamp ward Jessica (an amusingly petulant Deborah Ann Woll) in tow. No, the show hasn’t left the backwoods of Bon Temps. But by taking a big-city sojourn, True Blood can explore a whole new humorous side of its out, loud and proud vampire metaphor, complete with luxury vampire hotels that play vampire porn. (Sample title: Intercourse With a Vampire.)
Happily, the new plot continues to stoke the fire Paquin and Moyer bring to their hot, star-crossed romance while adding a new layer of domestic comedy. Somewhat reluctantly, they’re now raising a teenager — and underneath the vamp-vs.-human overlay is a smart exploration of the accommodations two very different people have to come to when parenting.
Other stories perk along, including one that reunites two terrific actors and characters: Alexander Skarsgard’s Eric and Nelsan Ellis’ Lafayette. Indeed, sparing Lafayette the deadly fate he met in Charlaine Harris’ first book was one of the biggest and smartest departures the show has made.
The only story line stumble so far is Jason’s (Ryan Kwanten) stint with an anti-vampire cult. It has been entertaining, but too much of the humor plays as an overly familiar attack on fundamentalists. If the plot (like the show itself) hasn’t already shot over the top, it’s skimming right along the border, and the writers would be wise to resist the urge to soar higher.
That qualm aside, what we’re seeing this season is a show that has grown confident and comfortable enough to expand its universe while maintaining its tonal control. Almost every comic scene includes the threat of horror, and almost every horrific scene has some small touch of comic relief.
All in all, True Blood is one of TV’s true joys. Drink deep.
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