Cinemax Goes Banshee with True Blood’s Ball
As we previously reported, True Blood creator Alan Ball has been developing a series called Banshee that, at the time, was being pitched to HBO and Cinemax. Now Cinemax has officially picked up the series for a ten-episode first season order. To Alan Ball fans everywhere: now is the time to jump around hooting and [...]
TRUE BLOOD Boss Bringing Medicine To HBO
Alan Ball is a busy man, with his usual showrunner duties on True Blood and developing several new series, starting with Bansha on Cinemax (which we reported on back in August) and now he’s putting together a medical drama for HBO. The hour-long drama is known as Wichita (anyone else immediately think of Zombieland?) and [...]
TRUE BLOOD Boss Brings BANSHEE to Cinemax
The big boss behind True Blood, Alan Ball, is looking to bring a new show to Cinemax reports the LA Times. At first the show, called Banshee, was being developed for HBO, but it was decided it would go to Cinemax in order to boost the networks amount of original programming. On top of Banshee, [...]
TRUE BLOOD Has 5 On It
What’s better than True Blood season 4? How about True Blood season 5? Yes, season 4 only just began in June, but that doesn’t stop the man with the plan. If you’re a fan of Bon Temps and the characters there in, your plan needs to be to check in with BoomTron’s own fantastic podcast. [...]
Alan Ball Back for More After True Blood Season 4?
True Blood season 4 is perhaps the most anticipated ever, am I right? Well, what about season 5? Is it too early to ask? You want to see one, don’t you? Well, so does series creator Alan Ball. “Right now I’m in the middle of negotiating for a fifth season,” Ball told The Hollywood Reporter [...]
True Blood Post Mortem – Alan Ball and Stephen Moyer
True Blood on HBO is into its exciting third season. THR announced the premier of the new season drew 5.1 million viewers. Check out the Post Mortem,of Sunday’s “Bad Blood”, the title of the season premiere. It is hosted by Alan Ball and Stephen Moyer and gives audiences some details on the subject of werewolves. [...]
True Blood Season 3 – Alan Ball and New Scenes
Some new scenes and and some word from p high the True Blood hierarchy here! You’ve already seen True Blood’s Season 3 extended trailer, and you saw the most recent revealing clip. Now, let writer/director Alan Ball uncover even more of the HBO show’s most anticipated season yet! Ball promises this will be the best [...]
HBO’s True Blood – the comic book by IDW
One of my favorite publishers, the source of comic Nirvana via the G.I. Joe and Transformers comic that I love so much (Costa for Eisner!), has acquired the rights to publish a six issue miniseries. In the release, Ball describes the arc as a “companion” to the HBO television series (which BSC always has you [...]
Charlie Huston’s The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death for HBO
I either missed this when it came out or I didn’t process it at the time. Either way this is old at this point. Alan Ball, a producer who gets things done (True Blood, Six Feet Under), dropped the an interesting quote while giving an interview in the Sydney Morning Herald back in November.
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