True Blood is an American television series based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris and adapted for television by Alan Ball. The series is produced by HBO in association with Ball's own production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment.
The show details the fictional co-existence of vampires and humans in a small Louisiana town after Japanese-made synthetic blood - "TruBlood" - becomes available for purchase. Anna Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress at a diner who falls in love with one of the vampires, Bill Compton (portrayed by Stephen Moyer.
The show will premiere on September 7, 2008
- Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in a smalltown diner
- Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton, a vampire with whom Sookie falls in love
- Alexander Skarsgård as Eric Northman, a thousand-year-old vampire Viking
- Ryan Kwanten as Sookie's brother Jason Stackhouse
- Sam Trammell as Sam Merlotte, the owner of the restaurant in which Sookie works
- Rutina Wesley as Tara Thornton, Sookie's best friend. In the leaked pilot, Tara is played by Brook Kerr.
- Jim Parrack as Hoyt Fortenberry.
- Chris Bauer as detective Andy Bellefleur.
- Nelsan Ellis as Sookie's coworker Lafayette Reynolds.
- Lynn Collin as Dawn Green, Jason Stackhouse's love interest.
- William Sanderson as Bud Dearborne.
- Lorin McCraley as a Grabbit Quick Clerk
Having read all the books, this one i'm definitely interested in.
