True Blood is an
American television drama series created by
Alan Ball, based on the
Sookie Stackhouse book series by
Charlaine Harris. The show is broadcast on the
premium cable network HBO in the United States. It is produced by HBO in association with Ball's production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment.
It premiered on
September 7,
2008. The show has been renewed for a second
season.
details the co-existence of
vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small
Louisiana town. The series centers on Sookie Stackhouse (
Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress at a bar, who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton (
Stephen Moyer).
Production
Development
Series creator
Alan Ball had previously worked with premium cable channel
HBO on
Six Feet Under, which ran for five seasons. In
October 2005, after
Six Feet Unders finale, Ball signed 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 read the first book in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse
series, Dead Until Dark
.
