True Blood is an American TV drama series made and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on the The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of books by Charlaine Harris, and details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small Louisiana city. The series centers on Sookie Stackhouse ( Anna Paquin ), a psychic waitress at a bar, who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton ( Stephen Moyer ).
The show is broadcast on the premium wire network HBO in the U. S. . It is produced by HBO in collaboration with Ball’s production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment. It premiered on Sep 7, 2008.
The 1st season received critical commend and won a few awards, including one Golden Globe and an Emmy. The show’s second 12-episode season premiered on June 14, 2009. On July 30, 2009, HBO confirmed that True Blood would be renewed for a third season which started shooting on December 3, 2009 and will air in the summer of 2010.
In January 2010, Alan Ball confirmed that there will be a fourth season of True Blood.
Production Development history
Series creator Alan Ball had formerly worked with premium wire channel HBO on six Feet Under, which ran five seasons. In October 2005, after 6 Feet Under’s series culmination, Ball confirmed a two year agreement with HBO to develop and produce original programming for the network. True Blood became the first project under the deal, after Ball became acquainted with Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire poser books.One day, while early for a dental appointment, Ball was perusing thru Barnes and Noble and came across Dead until Dark, the first installment in Harris’s series. Enjoying it, he read the following entries and took an interest in “bringing [Harris's] vision to television”.However, Harris already had two other modification options for the books. He announced she selected to work with him, though, because “[Ball] really ‘got’ me. That is how he persuaded me to go with him. I just felt that he understood what I was doing with the books.
