Originally Posted by BuckeyeChicago

I think last year they officialy waited until August to renew, so at least they've got that out of the way this year. This is part of the wording from the Hollywood Reporter: Showrunner Alan Ball, who developed the Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer series .. I love Stephen and Anna, but the reality is, no matter what the credits say, there's a third lead in there. Has been since somewhere around 'is there blood in my hair.'

When I think of TB I first think of Eric and Pam.. tbh, from what I've read online people are mostly bored with/annoyed by Behll and Sookajhh. Most people complain about 'please don't make it the Sookie-show, with all her love-affairs etc' Kinda funny since the books have her name
Most online talk is about E+P, Lala's quotes and Alcide's body.

Bit off topic, but I am happy they put an end to a certain actor in the last episode.. He was annoying (no, won't spoil for the people who haven't watched it yet, but thank goddddd!)

Originally Posted by FreeSpirit71

And the award for most reluctant, but most obvious statement...goes to ALAN BALL Judging you Alan. http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/...JcJ1rnvwt1.gif Edit: Cyrianne, I'm fairly certain that no matter who is at the helm they will go down a long thought out path with the storylines. As many issues as they've had with writing - to suddenly change tack now would be a big mistake in my opinion, simply to comply with the books. That ship sailed long ago.

Yep, whatever I think sometimes of the storylines, I think they do have a lot of it mapped out, even if doesn't appear to be that way.

I still hope that they'll do better at condensing the other storylines, even if they have some part in the primary storylines, they really need to focus.

This from EW re: Squirrels confirmation on True Blood's renewal.

Quote:

Breaking: HBO renews 'Newsroom,' 'True Blood' by Lynette Rice What an endorsement for Aaron Sorkin’s new drama The Newsroom: After only two weeks on the air, HBO announced today that it has renewed the drama that stars Jeff Daniels as an irascible cable news anchor. The Newsroom tallied 2.7 million total viewers for its premiere night last week, which included the encore run. The pay cabler also endorsed True Blood for another season. The season 5 premiere of the drama on June 10 lured 6.3 million viewers across its two plays, which HBO said was mostly in line with last year’s combined premiere number (though down 3 percent). Once TB comes back for a sixth season, executive producer Alan Ball will take a backseat role on the series to allow co-executive producer Mark Hudis to take the reins. Hudis has worked in the True Blood writers’ room with Ball since season 4.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/07/02/br...om-true-blood/

And some recaps:

EW
http://tvrecaps.ew.com/recap/true-bl...n-5-episode-4/

Collider
http://collider.com/true-blood-recap...sode-4/176914/

TVLine (aka Michael Ausiello)
http://tvline.com/2012/07/01/true-bl...p/#more-340919

TelevisionWithoutPity
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com...meet-again.php

Does it make me weird that when watching Eric's reaction to finding out Tara was his vamp grandaughter what was going through my head was having Alex as Brad Colbert going 'like I have to deal with this too?" from GK's Combat Jack episode?

Sweet article with Kristin talking about her scenes this week with Alex and how they both fought the script. She is so funny and emotional. Apologies if this posted before.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/true-...agic-mike.html

Originally Posted by scaredsquirrel

Sweet article with Kristin talking about her scenes this week with Alex and how they both fought the script. She is so funny and emotional. Apologies if this posted before. http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/true-...agic-mike.html

Ahh thanks for that! I love it!

Disconnect will come out on 12th of April 2013.

from Skarsstarved

Originally Posted by sydneygirl_1988

Disconnect will come out on 12th of April 2013. from Skarsstarved

Now if we could only get info concerning WMK and The East.

The end of "The Awful Truth". Thank God, no more double speak.

http://www.eonline.com/news/the_awfu...ank_you/327003

Also, not sure if this is new or not, but here it is:



And one of Eric/Pam releasing scene:

Thanks Vamp. This has been coming for a while, since Ted changed his twitter handle, which seems to signal it was closing out. No more interpreting riddles.

Originally Posted by VampFan

The end of "The Awful Truth". Thank God, no more double speak. http://www.eonline.com/news/the_awfu...ank_you/327003

Originally Posted by scaredsquirrel

Thanks Vamp. This has been coming for a while, since Ted changed his twitter handle, which seems to signal it was closing out. No more interpreting riddles.

Just popping in to say..as much as Ted's articles have been sliding lately, I saw this as a little sad. I've been following Ted since his days in print at "Premiere" magazine, when he was the go-to for good gossip. He also got some great interviews with big stars during his time there, that were off the cuff and spontaneous.

I'll never be able to watch "The Valley of the Dolls" without thinking of him. he named himself after one of the characters in the movie. Very fitting.

I don't mind Ted but I've always found it somewhat unrealistic with all the hidden gays, he seems to think there are in Hollywood. I'm not sure I believe him on that.

Originally Posted by Idun

I don't mind Ted but I've always found it somewhat unrealistic with all the hidden gays, he seems to think there are in Hollywood. I'm not sure I believe him on that.

I know I don't believe him on that. There are some commenters on other gossip sites who follow that line, and my reaction is always to wonder what's with their heads.

Maybe with Ted's leaving E he'll stop with the 'Alex should play Christian in 50 Shades of )(@*)#$(* wishful rumors (maybe I'm just being delusional with that hope).

Thanks, Vamp, for the vids!

Fan pic of Alex in Sweden:



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