For its last season, the HBO vampire drama True Blood isn't screwing around. At least not when it comes to drawing parallels between a bloody scourge of demon vampires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Let us ponder this rumor with a quietly shitting Eric Northman. If you've hung in there with True Blood this far, congratulations — you have the television stamina of a silverback gorilla, which I guess means you have a lot of stamina. Your dedication to a series that often oscillates between frenzied, nonsensical…
This year's science fiction and fantasy television delivered amazing highs and terrible lows. But what were the most brilliant scenes, and what were the most horrific? We've rounded them up the year's best moments, along with some of the absolute worst. Spoilers ahead...
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Attention fangbangers: HBO has announced that next summer's season of True Blood — season seven — will be the last. I stopped watching a while ago, but I worry about the people who can't survive without routine Eric Northman nudity, or regular doses of shirtless Alcide. May you find strength during the difficult times…
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While covering the royal birth this week, Fox News's Shep Smith once again displayed his profound appreciation for HBO's True Blood, with an extended explanation of the name-giving procedure for faeries.
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And you'd still probably hit it.
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Rowr: Janina Gavankar, Kristin Bauer van Straten (Pam!!), and Rutina Wesley at last night's premiere of HBO's True Blood at Hollywood's ArcLight's Cinerama Dome.
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Alcide rips off his shirt maybe three times, and Eric, in all his pasty Nordic luminance, poses shirtless in the moonlight. It’s all very titillating, to be sure, but the real question remains whether Jason and Alcide will have a naked olive oil wrestling match that Andy “accidentally” sees from a discreet distance, a …
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By now, you're probably used to the premium cable craziness that is HBO's True Blood. The first trailer for the show's sixth season (which starts June 16th) hints at dark, perilous times for the good, simple paranormal inhabitants of Bon Temps. A blood-smeared Bill returns looking quite angry, and Rutger Hauer flashes …
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Actors Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer attend the GREAT British Film Reception at British Consul General’s Residence on February 22, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for The British Film Commission)
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Deborah Ann Woll, the actress who plays Jessica on HBO's True Blood, is a woman of many talents. Not only can she play an angsty vampire forever trapped in a 17-year-old's body, but, it turns out, she's also a big fan of musical theater and a heck of a singer herself. Watch as she, put on the spot by Peter Travers,…
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True Blood is a show where guys have wood. That's basically the message in this Australian billboard created by DraftFCB. Get it? It's a peen. And that guy likes to
fiddle
whittle.
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After fifteen years of marriage (and a fair amount of that spent in couples therapy, apparently), two of the final standing members of the Un-Divorced Hollywood Old Guard, Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, might be almost ready to call it quits. This spring, Banderas was seen getting all up on another woman at a…
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For your latest installment of the Troubled Hollywood Families Variety Programme, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah (23, 20 and 18 respectively) have cut off all ties from their mom Demi Moore, whose emotional breakdowns in the wake of her split with Ashton Kutcher became too overwhelming for the kids to handle. Since Moore…
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In this week's TV roundup, a vampire and her maker breakup on True Blood, "Imma let you finish" comes full circle, the Alabama Shakes shake up Late Night and Sarah Palin sure loves her guns.
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In this week's TV roundup, Louis C.K.'s daughter tells a pretty good joke, we learn Pam's back story on True Blood, The View grills Rielle Hunter and the premiere of
Aaron Sorkin's latest masturbation fantasy
The Newsroom.
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In this week's TV roundup, Detective Stabler comes to Bon Temps, Olivia Wilde charms on The Colbert Report, Fiona Apple celebrates Paul McCartney's birthday with the Roots and we say goodbye to Girls.
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During her run for the presidency, Michelle Bachmann terrified us all on a regular basis. So perhaps it should not come as a surprise that True Blood creator Alan Ball took inspiration from her for the upcoming season of the show. He says,
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In this week's TV roundup, a touching goodbye on Mad Men, a rousing speech on Game of Thrones, the Roots get a shout out and here's a taste of True Blood Season 5.
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Charlaine Harris — known for the series of books about Sookie Stackhouse which spawned the HBO series True Blood — just landed another TV deal. Her Harper Connelly mysteries — beginning with the book Grave Sight — will be a series on Syfy.
