A new HBO series featuring vampires on TV is starting up on September 7th on the cable network. I still miss “Moonlight” from last season after CBS “staked” the most recent vampire series. Maybe this new on will fill the void. Here is some more information:
While you wouldn’t expect the Oscar-winning writer of the suburban drama American Beauty to have much to do with the horror genre, Alan Ball dealt tangentially with the supernatural when he wrote and produced five seasons of the HBO show Six Feet Under, which centered around a family-run funeral home where the “guests” offered their unfiltered opinion on the complicated dysfunctional relationships of their caretakers.
With his new HBO show True Blood, Ball is taking on some “pretty hardcore genre” as he puts it. Based on Charlaine Harris’ “The Southern Vampire Mysteries,” the new series which premieres on Sunday, September 7th stars Anna Paquin (aka “Rogue” from the X-Men movies) as telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse whose quiet Louisiana parish is set abuzz by the appearance of its first actual vampire.
