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While actors, writers, and directors often want to continue indefinitely when they’ve got a hit TV show on their hands, it’s always disappointing for audiences when a show continues past its prime. It can be tempting to continually renew a show when there’s a willing audience eagerly excited about a new season, but this often leads to series that continue well past their prime and are artificially extended with convoluted plotlines and a rotating cast of main characters. There were even some shows that peaked early and should have ended with season one, yet continued needlessly for years on end.

Some hit TV shows had the potential to be among the best shows ever made, yet too many seasons meant they lost their appeal, and viewers slowly lost interest and stopped watching. Other examples had an excellent premise in their earliest seasons, but they decided to introduce...

Ten years ago, one of HBO’s many hit shows that became a pop culture phenomenon had ended its run. True Blood was created by American Beauty writer Alan Ball and was based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries novels written by Charlaine Harris. The show dealt with vampires becoming ingrained in society with a new evolving fight for equal rights. The series starred Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Chris Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Jim Parrack, Carrie Preston, Alexander Skarsgård, Todd Lowe, Deborah Ann Woll, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Lauren Bowles, and Joe Manganiello.

Deadline reports on the exciting development of Alexander Skarsgård reprising his role (unofficially) for an appearance in this final season of the FX comedy series What We Do in the Shadows. Skarsgård was not explicitly identified as Eric Northman, but his signature look was retained, although he took some liberties to change things...

True Blood quickly became one of the biggest TV shows of the noughties when it premiered in 2008.

The horror-themed TV series, which was based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris, debuted on HBO in September of that year and ran through August 2014 across seven seasons and 80 episodes.

The series centers around Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress living in Louisiana, and the emergence of vampires thanks to a synthetic blood product called “Tru Blood,” which allows them to come out of their coffins and integrate into society. The series follows the vampires’ fight for equality amid anti-vampire sentiments, as Sookie falls in love with vampire Bill Compton.

The show won both a Golden Globe and an Emmy, and its stars have since gone on to accomplish major things in their careers, earning a significant amount of money and acclaim.

We’ve rounded up the main cast to see...

Based on the books written by Charlaine Harris, Aurora Teagarden Mysteries is a Hallmark film series that centers around the titular character, Aurora, who is a true crime aficionado. She is a teaching assistant at a local university, works part-time as a waitress, and as a civilian, she indulges in solving murders even though the local police do not appreciate her involvement.

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Who asked questions about poisoning in the class?

A Lesson in Murder began with a receptionist at Dr. Carpenter’s dental clinic being attacked by a thief. The scene moved to a classroom at a college, where Aurora, a teaching assistant, was taking a class on true crime fiction. The head of the department was Professor Lindo, and Aurora was good friends with her. Tanner Carpenter, one of the students in the class, asked Aurora about how early or late the police would know if someone was poisoned or not,...

In a recent interview, Candace Cameron Bure seemingly disses her former Aurora Teagarden role in favor of her new Great American Family Ainsley McGregor role. How did the Fuller House star shade her Hallmark role? Here is what she had to say.

Aurora Teagarden Photo: Candace Cameron Bure Credit: ©2021 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Sven Boecker Photo: Skyler Samuels Credit: @2023 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Sven Boecker Candace Cameron Bure Seemingly Shades Hallmark In New Interview

Hallmark+ recently dropped the spinoff prequel Aurora Teagarden: A Lesson In Murder. While there are still some diehard Aurora fans that miss Ccb, Candace Cameron Bure doesn’t appear to share that sentiment. In a recent interview with TV Insider, the current Great American Family star seemingly shaded her role on Hallmark Mystery. In addition, she compared it to her Gaf role in her new mystery series Ainsley McGregor.

In the Hallmark mystery series, she portrayed the title character,...

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Lesson in Murder is here!

The highly anticipated Hallmark+ feature hits the streamer on Thursday (October 3).

In the movie, when a student from Aurora’s true crime literature class is found murdered outside the diner where she works, Aurora takes it upon herself to figure out the real culprit.

Keep reading to find out more…

The feature stars Skyler Samuels, Jordan Buhat, Kayla Heller, Steve Bacic, Kavan Smith, Evan Roderick, and Marilu Henner.

Aurora Teagarden is a fictional character created by author Charlaine Harris, featured in a series of 11 crime novels written from 1990 to 2017. Hallmark Movies & Mysteries began adapting the novels in 2014 for their original film series The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries with Candace Cameron Bure in the title role. After her departure in 2022 from the network, Hallmark announced a prequel film with Skyler starring as a young Aurora Teagarden.

The next TV film, Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Death at the Diner,...

The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries from Hallmark encompass 19 movies all covering the adventures of the titular librarian/private eye and to watch the series in order means starting in 2015. Author Charlaine Harris, best known for her Sookie Stackhouse series which was eventually turned into True Blood by HBO, wrote another long and popular franchise, the Aurora Teagarden series. The books began with Real Murders in 1990 which was followed by 10 more novels, the last coming in 2017, Sleep Like a Baby. Hallmark adapted the second book in the series in April 2015, A Bone to Pick.

Since then, 18 more movies have come out, with all but one starring Candace Cameron Bure as Aurora Teagarden. Aurora "Roe" is a librarian in the sleepy town of Lawrenceton, Washington, where she runs the Real Murders Club, a group of true crime lovers who meet every month to study up on the famous crimes from the history of their town.

The best Arielle Kebbel movie and TV roles show her range, as she has taken on everything from romantic comedies and horror movies to supernatural television and police procedurals and excelled at them all. Kebbel was a star from the start, moving to Los Angeles and landing the first role she auditioned for, latching on to the series Gilmore Girls as Lindsay Lister. This got her foot in the door, and she never looked back. She has also always kept her foot in the door of the television industry while also taking some movie roles.

Throughout her career, Kebbel has appeared in some of the biggest TV shows airing, with major roles on Gilmore Girls and The Vampire Diaries, as well as one-shot appearances in franchise shows like CSI and Hawai'i Five-o. She tried her hand at horror movies like The Grudge 2 and The Uninvited and rom-coms like John Tucker Must Die.

It’s rare for a series to start brilliantly, continue on that trajectory, and then stick the landing.

It’s why you typically hear those same TV series when people talk about the greatest of all time.

Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos, Seinfeld, and Mad Men — these series stayed consistent and kept audiences engrossed from start to finish.

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Unfortunately, that’s not always the case across the board.

More than likely, a series never finds its footing or lives up to its potential. Or it’s inconsistent at best, with a sluggish start and better finish.

And sometimes a show starts wonderfully, with acclaim and devotion from fans, only to stumble somewhere along the way and never truly recover.

Can a Show Be a Success if Viewers Aren’t Satisfied?by Thomas Godwin It Ends With Us as We (Begrudgingly) Break Down the Drama So You...

HBO is known for some of the greatest dark fantasy drama shows ever made and since all of its content is available on Max (formerly known as HBO Max). From the very brilliant (until its last couple of seasons) fantasy series Game of Thrones and its prequel series House of the Dragon, we have picked out all of the best fantasy shows that are available on Max to binge right now.

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His Dark Materials is a British fantasy and mystery adventure drama series created by Jack Thorne. Based on a trilogy of fantasy novels of the same name by author Philip Pullman, the HBO series is set in an alternate world and it follows the story of Lyra, a young orphan girl who grew up with the scholars of a college in Oxford as she goes on a life-changing adventure to find her missing best friend.

Chicago Med has picked up two new season regulars for the upcoming Season 10. Sarah Ramos (The Bear) and Darren Barnet (Anyone But You) have signed onto the popular medical drama as Dr. Caitlin Lenox and Dr. John Frost, respectively.

With the news that they were joining the team, both actors had something to say about their new career journey.

Sarah Ramos Joins Chicago Med

Sarah Ramos started as a child actor, and one of her earliest roles came as Patty Pryor in the NBC series American Dreams when she was 11. She moved on to Parenthood in 2009 and also appeared in The Affair, Midnight, Texas, and The Bear on Hulu.

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Sarah seems excited about the new role, as she posted something on her Instagram Stories about her casting, with a link to a news article about it. While she has been busy playing Jessica,...

Set in the 1990s, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires brings a twist to the Southern horror sub-genre that's reminiscent of True Blood. HBO is in the process of developing a TV series based on Grady Hendrix's The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires novel. While Hendrix's book is a fresh take on vampire lore, HBO's track record suggests that the adaptation will be a fitting successor to the iconic True Blood.

Ten years after True Blood came to an end, I can finally celebrate HBO's announcement that the perfect vampire replacement is in the works: an adaptation of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. Created by Alan Ball, True Blood is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of bestselling novels by Charlaine Harris. Set in Bon Temps, Louisiana, the fantasy drama centers on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic human-fairy...

10 years ago, the acclaimed horror-romance series True Blood, which was based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries book series by Charlaine Harris, reached its final season. A show that had its fair share of ups and downs story-wise, it also felt like an end of an era as it’s the last horny-on-main series in recent memory that’d feel like an anomaly in our current largely sexless cinematic climate. But above all, when the series ended, viewers had to bid farewell to its iconic power pairing: Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård) and his progeny, Pamela Swynford de Beaufort (Kristin Bauer van Straten).

Based on Anne Rice‘s classic gothic romance series Interview with the Vampire, has garnered a massive fan following because of its brilliant storytelling and complex characters. The AMC series is currently airing its second season and the audience seems to be loving the new season even more. So, if you have already binged all the available episodes of Interview with the Vampire here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Penny Dreadful is a gothic horror drama series created by John Logan. The Showtime series’ first season is set in 1891 London and it follows the story of an American gunman Ethan Chandler as he is hired by the adventurer Malcolm Murray and mysterious Vanessa Ives to rescue Murray’s daughter from a dangerous creature. The trio receives help from a young doctor known as Victor Frankenstein. Penny Dreadful stars Timothy Dalton,...

A little bit of sex is always appreciated in movies and TV shows and a lot of it also doesn’t go unnoticed I am looking at you Fifty Shades of Grey and its half-a-billion-dollar box office earnings. If you also love steamy movies and shows then this article is for you as we are here to list the most erotic films and TV shows you can find on Max (formerly known as HBO Max), where you will find most of the HBO shows and Warner Bros. movies. So, here are the most steamiest movies and TV shows you should watch on Max.

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Euphoria is a teen drama series created by Sam Levinson. Based on an Israeli miniseries of the same name by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin, the HBO series follows the story of a troubled 17-year-old drug-addicted girl Rue, and her group of...

Joe Manganiello feels his True Blood character's death was premature, with more story left to explore. Despite the potential for a reboot, True Blood's disappointments linger, including character deaths and bland endings. The scrapped True Blood reboot doesn't rule out a future return, leaving hope for a more fitting end for Alcide Herveaux.

True Blood star Joe Manganiello offers some blunt thoughts about his character’s fate in the hit fantasy horror series. Based on the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris, HBO’s True Blood ran for seven seasons between 2008 and 2014. Officially joining the cast as the werewolf Alcide Herveaux in True Blood season 3, Manganiello’s character would later be promoted to a series regular until he was unceremoniously killed off early in season 7.

Speaking on Andy Cohen Live (via The Hollywood Reporter), Manganiello reflected on True Blood’s 2014 ending and his character’s disappointing exit. Suggesting that...

Created by Alan Ball and inspired by The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris, the TV series True Blood ran on HBO for seven seasons, from 2008 to 2014, ending up with a total of 80 episodes. 42 of those episodes featured Joe Manganiello as the werewolf character Alcide Herveaux. Introduced in season 3, Alcide was only supposed to be a guest star for that particular season – but he proved to be so popular with viewers, he was kept around… until season 7, when he was killed off. Not surprisingly, Manganiello wasn’t happy with the way his character went out. In fact, he was so displeased with Alcide being killed off, he feels he still has unfinished werewolf business to this day.

During an interview on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM show, Manganiello said (with thanks to The Hollywood Reporter for the transcription), “I thought there was so much left on the table for me.

Goodbye, Aurora Teagarden. Hello, Ainsley McGregor!

Fledgling Hallmark Channel competitor Great American Family has announced the launch of its own mystery movie franchise titled — wait for it — Great American Mysteries. The first whodunnit will be titled The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker and led by former Hallmark star Candace Cameron Bure.

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The film will arrive Thursday,...

True Blood is one of the most popular TV shows of the noughties.

The horror-themed TV series, which was based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris, debuted on HBO in September 2008 and ran through August 2014 across seven seasons and 80 episodes.

The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress living in Louisiana, and the emergence of vampires thanks to a synthetic blood product called “Tru Blood,” which allows them to come out of their coffins and integrate into society. The series follows the vampires’ fight for equality amid anti-vampire sentiments, as Sookie falls in love with vampire Bill Compton.

The show won both a Golden Globe and an Emmy, and its stars have since gone on to accomplish major things in their careers, earning a significant amount of money.

Click through to find out who is the richest star of True Blood…...

True Blood's most powerful villains were smart, devious, and had almost impossible powers. Marnie Stonebrook, Warlow, and Roman Zimojic were formidable enemies that threatened the vampire world. Sarah Newlin, Maryann Forrester, and Lilith were cunning and ruthless villains who posed great dangers.

Through seven seasons, the heroes and antiheroes in True Blood had to fight evil, and the strongest vampire in True Blood was always up for debate.True Blood got its start in 2008, based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries by author Charlaine Harris. The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress who lives in Bon Temps, Louisiana, where vampires live in the open and survive on a synthetic blood product called Tru Blood. Throughout the series, Sookie falls in love with a 174-year-old vampire named Bill Compton and has to deal with the evil beings in the vampire community.

Sookie had to deal with the strongest vampires, many...

Regardless of genre, fans place an enormous amount of expectation on series finales. It's not easy to carry the responsibility of wrapping up any extraneous plot threads and character arcs in a satisfying way for longtime audiences. Even the most acclaimed shows, like "Seinfeld" and "The Sopranos," can have their entire successful run overshadowed by middling or divisive reception to their respective finales. This distinction carries over to horror TV shows, with plenty of notable series marring their celebrated legacies because of the last impressions left by divisive final episodes.

Horror shows often suffer from abrupt cancellations, denying audiences a satisfying amount of closure thanks to anticlimactic endings that don't live up to fan expectations. Even some of the most enduring and iconic horror shows have come to a close with lackluster finales. Here are the most maligned endings that ruined the legacies of TV horror classics by failing to stick the landing.

True Blood had many captivating characters, but some, like Adele Stackhouse and Eggs Benedict Talley, had untapped potential and were underutilized. Characters like Terry Bellefleur and Ginger could have been given more screen time and character development for a deeper narrative. The show missed opportunities with characters like Sophie-Anne Leclerq, Godric, Russell Edgington, Jesus Velasquez, and Tara Thornton, leaving their potential unfulfilled and their storylines unresolved.

HBO's True Blood is known for some captivating characters, but some of those characters could have been explored much further. While the series provided interesting and entertaining elements and complex relationships, there were many moments that left audiences wanting more. Expanding the roles of part of the True Blood cast could have deepened the narrative, allowing opportunities to connect more deeply with them and their contributions to the world of True Blood.

True Blood, the hit HBO series based on Charlaine Harris's novels,...

It was recently announced that RBmedia's GraphicAudio brand is releasing three original Hellboy audiobooks written by Christopher Golden! The first audiobook, Hellboy: A Plague Of Wasps, is scheduled for release at the end of the month and I had a chance to catch up with Christopher Golden to learn more about his experience telling new these stories in the Hellboy Universe:

You've written Hellboy comics and are the co-writer on the upcoming film. How did you first get involved with writing the three upcoming Hellboy audiobooks?

CG: I’d started working on a big audio project for another company, and it occurred to me that it would be really fun to create some new adventures with Hellboy in audio. At the same time, it turned out that more than one company had approached Dark Horse about the same thing. Graphic Audio had adapted Cemetery Girl, a trilogy of graphic novels...

Realm, the world’s largest scripted podcast network with over 140 shows and 3500 hours of audio entertainment, today announced a new podcast hosted and narrated by award-winning comedian and voice talent Alison Larkin.

Each season of The Jane Austen Podcast with Alison Larkin will feature an Austen novel, beginning with the seminal Pride & Prejudice. Through reflections, commentary, and her own personal stories, Larkin showcases both her talent as a charming vocal performer and strength as a writer-comedian in every episode. The Jane Austen Podcast with Alison Larkin also features chats with actors, writers, and other interesting people who have one thing in common: a passionate love for Jane Austen. Everyone from die-hard fans to first-time listeners will find something delightful – and relatable – at every turn.

Larkin said: “I love bringing the classics to a modern audience in fun, new ways. So, when Realm approached me about hosting and co-creating a...

Realm, the largest scripted podcast network, today announced the upcoming release of America 2.0, a scripted audio drama starring Patrick J Adams (“Suits”) as an idealistic first term congressman, launching May 2.

Entangled in his first ever controversy, Seth McGuire (Adams) finds himself ill-equipped to navigate D.C.’s treachery. His only hope comes from a big idea to give every American citizen one million dollars.

Inspired by the optimistic storytelling in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The West Wing, co-creators J S Mayank and David Carlyle wanted to put out a message of hope. “Politics is supposed to be aspirational, and yet it’s become anything but. Our cast and crew wanted to bring back high-minded, civil discourse—all while making politics entertaining again,” said Mayank.

In addition to Adams, the podcast features an extensive cast of Hollywood stars, including Emmy Award-winning and Oscar nominated actor Laurence Fishburne, Shanola Hampton...

Realm, the largest scripted podcast network with 3,500+ hours of audio entertainment and eight #1 shows including the critically acclaimed and Webby award-winning If I Go Missing The Witches Did It (starring Gabourey Sidibe) and Ambie-nominated shows Outliers (starring Rory Culkin), Orphan Black: The Next Chapter and Power Trip (both starring Tatiana Maslany), today announced new partnerships to distribute podcasts, scaling the network to over 120 shows in less than a year.

Molly Barton, Realm Co-Founder & CEO said, “With legendary creative talent and IP holders entering the space and the fastest growing audience in podcasting, the scripted category is one of the most exciting and innovative in the industry, and this is just the beginning. Realm is propelling exponential audience growth and simplifying discovery for listeners by bringing together amazing shows and creators as the hub for storytelling across fiction and all story-rich categories.”

In addition to producing their own Originals, Realm has...

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is bringing back “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries” with a new Aurora.

On Thursday, the network announced the return of the franchise with a new prequel series, “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New,” set to premiere later this year. Skyler Samuels will star as young Aurora, while Evan Roderick will play young Arthur. Marilu Henner will return as Aida Teagarden.

“Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New” is set after Aurora has graduated college and returns home in Lawrenceton.

“While her mother, Aida, struggles to keep her newfound real estate business, Aurora supports herself by working as a teacher’s assistant in a crime fiction class, and waitresses at the local diner at night, where she shares her love of researching true crime with her friend Sally and police officer Arthur,” Hallmark’s press release reads. “When Sally’s fiancé doesn’t show up at their wedding rehearsal, Maid of Honor...

The recent announcement of a True Blood reboot brought fans out of hiding after the vampire series' notoriously bad ending; however, the more recent announcement of the reboot's cancelation makes the True Blood finale much worse. True Blood is a steamy seven-season HBO series that started in 2008 and ended in 2014. The show is based on a set of novels by Charlaine Harris called "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" and follows a woman named Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress and a telepathic halfling.

Viewers were exceedingly disappointed by True Blood's ending, mainly because the finale was overly bland. After seven seasons of campy gore and graphic sex, the show's ending remained overly tame and had a strange focus on traditional family ideas, which did not sit right with the progressive themes that appeared in True Blood overall. The ending proposed that Sookie offered Bill "True Death" and then got pregnant with another unknown party,...

As you may recall, it was announced back in 2020 that HBO was developing a series reboot of their hit vampire series “True Blood,” with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa leading the charge. Based on the novels by Charlaine Harris and created by Alan Ball, HBO’s vampire/werewolf/were-panther/you-name-it series aired between 2008 and 2014, officially coming to an end after seven seasons and 80 episodes.

But what’s the latest on HBO’s “True Blood” reboot? Well, according to a new article from Variety this week, those plans from back in 2020 are dead-in-the-water here in 2023.

HBO and HBO Max content CEO Casey Bloys tells Variety that while a few scripts had been written for a potential “True Blood” reboot, nothing ended up coming together. It seems the project was only ever in the early stages, and HBO wasn’t confident enough to proceed. That doesn’t mean “True Blood” will Never be back, but...

Though HBO raised a few eyebrows when it announced that True Blood —the messy but fun vampire series based on the novels by Charlaine Harris — would be rebooted, such a project has more potential than might be immediately apparent. True Blood was a tremendous success for HBO during its run, even though it largely eschewed the mystery-solving component of the book series after its first season. Like so many other vampire series of the time and since, it worked very hard to make vampires sexy, and it often focused more on the relationship dramas of its central characters rather than murder mysteries.

True Blood and its enormous cast was, of course, a part of a larger cultural fascination with vampires that flourished during the 2000s and into the 2010s. Though vampires aren’t quite as ubiquitous as when True Blood was first on the air, they have never really gone away,...

Fantastical elements have been part of television since 1964's "Bewitched" and 1965's "I Dream of Jeannie. In the following decades, the genre's popularity has only grown, moving beyond family-friendly sitcoms. The '90s brought us "Hercules" and "Xena: Warrior Princess." The 2000s ushered in the massive cultural phenomenon of "Lost." The world of fantasy television is wonderfully expansive, featuring some of the most critically-acclaimed television -- from philosophical comedies like "The Good Place" to time travel romantic dramas like "Outlander," to high fantasy tales of intrigue and betrayal like "House of the Dragon." For every beloved series, there's a critically-panned fantasy flop. Every "Game of Thrones" season 1, there's a "Game of Thrones" season 8. 

But the reviews are not the end all be all of a show's enjoyability. After all, art is subjective. Sometimes media that didn't work for critics can still be a great time. Even if a show was not well-received on its release,...

The supernatural HBO series True Blood sees actor Stephen Moyer playing Bill Compton and Alexander Skarsgård as Eric Northman — but Moyer might not have gotten the role, which would've made Eric's character very different. True Blood is based on the book series The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris. The novels, and the show, follow Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who starts as a waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. In Harris' universe, vampires are out in the open thanks to a synthetic blood product called true blood. The series doesn't feature just vampires. However, there are also shapeshifters, fairies, werewolves, werepanthers, and much more.

True Blood showrunner Alan Ball, on board as executive producer for the True Blood reboot, had quite the burden on his hands casting such an anticipated series. Of course, when casting any adaptation, there are bound to be some book fans that aren't happy with the final result,...

True Blood star Deborah Ann Woll revealed the show didn't end the way she wanted. Adapted by American Beauty writer Alan Ball, the show was based on the bestselling Southern Vampire Mysteries book series by Charlaine Harris. Premiering in 2008, the series enjoyed a seven-season run on HBO with Woll featuring as the reoccurring character Jessica Hamby, a young vampire turned by Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) in season 1.

Discussing her True Blood tenure on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, Woll admitted that the final season didn't end as she'd hoped. Explaining that she loved her character, Woll confided that the finale did not play out the way she'd wanted and that she'd envisioned Jessica leaving to travel the world or rising to prominence in vampire politics. Woll also added that she'd like to see Jessica return with more story in any potential reboot. Check out her comments below:...

Deborah Ann Woll, who played Jessica Hamby on hit HBO vampire series True Blood, addresses a potential follow-up movie. Based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries novel series by Charlaine Harris, the show revolves around telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her relationship with a 174-year-old vampire, amid the backdrop of vampire assimilation into human society. A critical and commercial success, True Blood ran seven seasons and 80 episodes before concluding in April 2014.

Speaking on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast, Woll discusses the possibility of a True Blood movie in the future, and how the show did not end in the way she had expected. Discussing how she believed some aspects of the show had reached a natural conclusion, the Daredevil series star also reveals she wanted more for the character of Jessica, and that she would be open to returning to the world of True Blood due to her love for the character,...

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It was an offer they couldn’t refuse.

APA has signed the estate of The Godfather author Mario Puzo for representation.

The agency will represent the media rights to the author’s novels with the goal of sales for motion picture and streaming minseries adaptations.

Puzo is best known for Godfather, his 1969 novel that was on the New York Times best-seller list for 67 weeks and reportedly sold 9 million copies in two years. The author gained further fame when Francis Ford Coppola adapted the book into the classic film starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Paramount may own those rights, but APA is betting that in this age of insatiable hunger for stories, there will be plenty of interest in the author’s many other works.

The agency has already begun discussion with producers regarding Puzo’s as-yet-unadapted novels including: Fools Die, his first novel post-Godfather,...

The future looks bleak for the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries franchise following Candace Cameron Bure‘s decision to leave Hallmark and sign a deal with Gac Media. According to Variety, there are no plans for new films in the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries series. The Hallmark Channel has previously produced 18 movies in the franchise, based on the books by True Blood author Charlaine Harris. Bure starred as the lead in all 18 films and was one of the faces of Hallmark, mostly known for her Countdown to Christmas content, which included 11 holiday movies over the years. However, on Tuesday, it was announced that Bure had signed an agreement with Gac Media, the rebranded Great American Country network run by Bill Abbott, the former president of Hallmark Channel’s parent company Crown Media. Bure’s deal will see her develop, produce, and star in programming across Gac Family and Gac Living, and she will...

Aurora Teagarden’s future is now its own mystery, following Candace Cameron Bure‘s decision to leave Hallmark for a new deal at Gac Family.

According to our sister site Variety, there are no plans for additional films in the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries franchise, which starred Bure in the title role. A total of 18 Aurora Teagarden movies, based on the books by True Blood author Charlaine Harris, were produced for Hallmark. The most recent — and now likely final — movie, “Haunted by Murder” aired in February 2022.

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Exclusive: As Bill Compton would say, bloody good: Author Charlaine Harris, whose bestselling book series about vampires inspired the hit series True Blood on HBO, is going into the podcasting biz. She’s teaming with Realm to write a yet-to-be-named, multi-episode series that will launch in 2023.

“I couldn’t be more thrilled to be partnering with Realm on this all-new vampire narrative,” said Harris. “Although I can’t reveal too much right now, I will say that exploring these myths and legends for a podcast audience is incredibly exciting for me and I look forward to joining the Realm family as we take audio storytelling to new heights.”

“Charlaine is an exceptional storyteller,” added CEO and Realm Co-Founder Molly Barton. “Her scope of delicious work speaks to her uncanny ability to make audiences revel in the fantastical. We couldn’t be more thrilled that she has chosen Realm as her...

(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of "Nosferatu," which turns 100 this year.)

Every generation has its vampire show. Our grandparents had "Dark Shadows," some of us older folks had "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and after that, we got "True Blood." This one was different, giving us vampires trying to live in the world with humans after a synthetic blood product ("Tru Blood") is developed. 

The long-running HBO series was based on the Southern Vampire Mystery novel series by Charlaine Harris, and there is actually a...

The post Year of the Vampire: True Blood Sucked the World Into the Love of Vampires Again appeared first on /Film.

Created by mystery novelist Charlaine Harris, Aurora Teagarden Mysteries is a 17-part series of made-for-television movies that aired on the Hallmark channel from 2015 to 2018. Each movie revolves around Aurora "Ro" Teagarden (Candace Cameron Bure), a small-town librarian by day and amateur detective by night who investigates a series of murders in the quaint town of Lawrenceton, Washington.

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Along with the other members of the Real Murders Club, a grassroots collection of crime solvers, Ro navigates her personal relationships, work-life, and romantic endeavors as she tries to keep her town as safe as possible. While many side characters come and go, here are the most enjoyable mainstays on the show.

Before he was brought to life on the small screen by Stephen Moyer for the popular HBO series True Blood, Bill Compton existed solely in print as author Charlaine Harris's creation for her novel series The Southern Vampire Mysteries. He first appeared in both Dead Until Dark,  (the first novel in the bestselling author's supernatural collection) as well as the premiere episode of True Blood, "Strange Love."

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Though the vampire quickly became a popular character and main love interest for the title character Sookie Stackhouse on the HBO show, not all fans of Vampire Bill knew just how many differences there were between the television adaptation and Harris's original creation. Here are some of the most notable and surprising differences between the two versions of the beloved undead character.

Although there's been talk around town about a potential reboot of HBO's True Blood, there's been a lot of skepticism since the network never addressed the rumors.

In a new interview with TV Line, HBO boss Casey Bloys has confirmed the project is very much in the works, but it is still in the very early stages of development.

“There’s no green light imminent on that,” he told the outlet.

“I wouldn’t say it’s as far along as, say, the Game of Thrones [spinoff House of Dragon]. We definitely have a writer working on an idea for sure, but I think that it’s fair to say it’s not quite as far along as people think. It’s [not] coming on the air next year. It’s a long way away from that.”

Bloys stressed, however, that it would have to be a story worth telling, meaning that we may not...

HBO is in early talks to reboot its sultry vampire series True Blood. Based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris, True Blood centers around a co-mingling group of humans, vampires, and other supernatural creatures in rural Louisiana. It made sex symbols out of Alexander Skarsgard, Ryan Kwanten, and Anna Paquin while satisfying fans of erotic, bloody horror.

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While some fans are excited to see True Blood return to the small screen, others are confused as to why the series would come back so quickly after it left the air. Do people really need more Sookie Stackhouse? More fairies? More werepanthers? More deranged vamps like Russell Edgington? Better yet, how could a reboot take the basic story in new directions?...

HBO’s True Blood first premiered in 2008, in the midst of the “vampire boom” sparked by the Twilight franchise. Based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels penned by Charlaine Harris, the series has recently come back into the spotlight. HBO has ordered a reboot of the vampire drama, which is currently in early stages of production. Regardless of the path that the showrunners choose to take, the original series lives on the hearts of fans.

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A dark and sensual exploration of vampires and other folkloric creatures living in the deep South, the show remained fairly popular throughout its seven season run, not only for its subject matter, but for its cast. Tall or short, vampire or human, the ensemble of talented cast members kept the show popular with its fans.

It looks like fans will be returning to Bon Temps in the near future, but don't expect Anna Paquin to be a part of the rumored reboot.

The actress, who starred as Sookie Stackhouse on all seven seasons, broke her silence about the project on Twitter, and it's quite surprising.

"Well, this is the first I'm hearing about this," she wrote via Twitter after a flurry of users asked her about her thoughts on the project.

The actress later clarified that she's not mad about HBO's reported reboot.

"Not mad, just answering the question that has inundated my feed," the beloved actress responded.

Paquin is not the only person associated with True Blood to claim they have no clue about the project.

Novel writer Charlaine Harris, who brought the world to life, wrote the following on social media:

To my amazement, Variety has announced that a reboot of "True Blood...

True Blood only finished its final and least impressive season six years ago, but it’s been decided that this is long enough to warrant the series being rebooted. Naturally, fans of the show are less than pleased with the announcement, and haven’t been shy in making their feelings known.

Social media reaction to any kind of reboot or remake is usually negative, but the news of True Blood being done again has provoked a particularly vocal outcry, where it didn’t involve people taking the opportunity to relive just how horny both the series was and it made them.

See below for a sample of what folks are saying:

They Rebooting #TrueBlood!?! ummm idk about this! pic.twitter.com/BaMeK6diP9

— Poppyseed Jr (@hausofkingz) December 9, 2020

why are they rebooting all old shows/movies recently? no one can come up with new ideas?

theyre rebooting all gossip girl, icarly,...

Los Angeles, Dec 10 (Ians) The classic True Blood is set to get a reboot, and the project is already in early development stages.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Jami O'Brien will pen the script and executive produce for HBO. The original series creator and showrunner Alan Ball will also executive produce, reports variety.com.

So far, none of the show's original cast has been confirmed to return in the reboot.

The show is based on "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" novel series by Charlaine Harris. It debuted on HBO in 2008 and ran for seven seasons until 2014.

Ball was showrunner on five of the seven seasons. The series took place in a world where vampires live among humans, thanks to the creation of a synthetic blood substitute that allowed vampires to stop hunting humans for food. It was infused with a lot of fantastical elements, including werewolves and witches.

The original show starred Anna Paquin,...

Seven seasons, six years of patience, and several rewatches later, Sookie, Bill, and the rest of the gang are returning to our screens for a True Blood reboot on HBO, and we can't wait to sink our teeth into every moment of it. Based on a series of novels by Charlaine Harris, the original show - which aired from 2008 to 2014 - took a look at life in Bon Temps, LA, a small town where the development of a synthetic blood allowed vampires to walk among the living. This resulted in countless onscreen deaths and a lot of sexual tension, and we expect the reboot will deliver the same.

The reboot is still in its early writing stages and will be led by Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and the show's original creator, Alan Ball. So far, no casting details or release date have been announced, but...

A “True Blood” reboot is in the early development stages at HBO, Variety has confirmed with sources.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Jami O’Brien are attached to write the script and executive produce, with original series creator and showrunner Alan Ball also attached to executive produce. At this time, none of the show’s original cast is attached to return.

Reps for HBO declined to comment.

The original “True Blood” is based on “The Southern Vampire Mysteries” novel series by Charlaine Harris. It debuted on HBO in 2008 and ran for seven seasons until 2014. Ball was the showrunner on five of the seven seasons. The series took place in a world in which vampires live among humans after the creation of a synthetic blood substitute that allowed vampires to stop hunting humans for food. There were also a myriad of other fantasy creatures in the show, including werewolves and witches.

Anna Paquin starred as telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse.

HBO is eyeing a return to Bon Temps.

WarnerMedia’s premium cable outlet is in the early stages of developing a new version of its series True Blood, with Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa at the helm. Alan Ball, the creator of the original series, is also on board as an executive producer.

HBO declined comment.

True Blood, based on a series of novels by Charlaine Harris, debuted on HBO in 2008 and ran for seven seasons. It was set in a world where the development of a synthetic blood allowed vampires to announce their presence to the world, with ...