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HBO’s True Blood Looks Back at Itself With a Rewatch Podcast

HBO's vampire drama is getting a podcast to make you remember the sexy, bloody old days.

Television Justin Carter Oct 3

Vampire Academy Coming to Peacock TV From Executive Producer Julie Plec

Do you remember Mark Water’s disastrous 2014 directorial adaptation of Richelle Mead’s book Vampire Academy? The film currently sits at 16 percent on rotten tomatoes and an equally lousy audience score, labeling it a box office dud. However, Peacock TV, and executive producer Julie Plec intends to the right that wrong with a Vampire Academy…

io9 Valerie Complex May 22

The Hunger Remake Rises From Its Sexy Vampire Grave

The 1983 vampire movie The Hunger didn’t exactly win over critics when it was first released, but since then it’s become a cult film for its stylish looks, its bisexual lead character, and its influence on goth culture. These are presumably three of the reasons Warner Bros. has decided to reboot the movie, with the…

Movies Rob Bricken May 18

HBO’s Bringing True Blood Back From the Dead

HBO still wants to do bad, bad things with Sookie Stackhouse, and it’s banking on you being interested in watching. Variety reports that HBO’s greenlit a reboot of True Blood, its trashy supernatural soap opera based on Charlaine Harris’Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels. Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and NOS4A2 showrunner Jami O’Brien will run…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Dec 9

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10 TV Shows Where the First Season Was the Best Season

Television shows often take a bit of time to find their footing, with series like The Expanse, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Steven Universe only getting better with each passing season. Then there are the shows that peaked early. Like, really early. These are our picks of the 10 genre TV shows where the…

Television Beth Elderkin Aug 7

HBO Made a Bunch of Stuff Free to Watch, Here’s What You Should Check Out (or Skip)

HBO is getting in on the social distancing relief. The network has announced that dozens of its shows and Warner Bros. movies have been made available to stream without a subscription, starting today. We’ve picked some things you might want to check out, and some to probably avoid. You’re not that desperate. According to a…

io9 Beth Elderkin Apr 3

10 Iconic TV Vampires, From Angel to The X-Files

We are very excited to see awkward vampires take NYC on What We Do in the Shadows, which debuts tonight on FX. But the show is merely the latest union of TV and vampires, a pairing that has yielded some of pop culture’s most memorable bloodsuckers. From a huge field of undead contenders, here are…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 27

Benedict Cumberbatch Could Have Been True Blood‘s Vampire Bill

The year was 2008. Barack Obama was in the last leg of his ultimately successful bid for the U.S. presidency and the wildest thing on television aside from election coverage was a quirky little show on HBO called True Blood. The campy vampire soap opera quickly gained a reputation for the way its entire cast…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 19

Would You Live In NBC’s Midnight, Texas, a Town Filled With Were-Tigers, Demons, and Witches?

Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town where were-tigers, vampires, and witches live side by side in their small, dusty town just trying to make a modest living while also fighting the oncoming forces of hell. Now ask yourself: would you wanna live in Midnight? Based on True Blood author Charlaine Harris’ Midnight, Texas trilogy, the…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 17

NBC’s Midnight, Texas Looks Like Delicious Supernatural Cheese

If you’re going to rip off True Blood, you might as well go right to the source. The extended trailer for NBC’s supernatural drama Midnight, Texas further makes us expect that this latest Charlaine Harris adaptation about a small town filled with secrets will resemble HBO’s vampire drama, but with way less nudity and gore.…

Television Cheryl Eddy Mar 20

NBC’s Supernatural Thriller Midnight, Texas Looks Like a PG-Rated True Blood

Charlaine Harris’ True Blood books spawned a huge hit for HBO, and NBC is hoping for a similar windfall with Midnight, Texas. The series is also based on Harris books, and also features a small Southern town with some decidedly supernatural inhabitants. Because it’s NBC though, it looks a little more… tame. Here’s the official…

Television Cheryl Eddy Oct 7

Sleepy Hollow Casts Ichabod’s New Scully, Er, Partner

Ichabod Crane (and the rest of humanity) may be reeling from the loss of his Witness, but at least he’s got a new partner to hunt the forces of evil with. True Blood actress Janina Gavankar has signed on to join Sleepy Hollow as its resident Dana Scully in season 4. Gavankar is set to…

Television Beth Elderkin Jul 23

That True Blood Musical Is Apparently Still Happening

The idea of a True Blood musical has been bandied about since the vampire drama concluded its HBO run in 2014. Composer Nathan Barr, who worked on all seven seasons of the show, revealed he’d pitched the concept to show creator Alan Ball, with hopes of “returning to the roots” of the story … in…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jul 5

If Your Father Was a Pulp Science Fiction (and Porn) Writer in the 1970s, Life Got Pretty Weird

Andrew Offutt was a prolific author of pulpy science fiction and fantasy stories, along with porn, under a variety of names. Now his son Chris has written a memoir called My Father the Pornographer. And he’s been writing some fascinating essays about growing up with a dad who wrote cheap paperbacks. According to the Science…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Feb 4

NBC Is Trying to Make the New True Blood

True Blood bit its last throat in 2014, but NBC is hoping it can duplicate HBO’s mega-success by adapting another fantasy series from works by author Charlaine Harris, called Midnight, Texas. It’s based on Harris’ trilogy about a small town filled with spooky secrets. According to Deadline: Midnight, Texas is a Southern tale with supernatural…

Television Cheryl Eddy Oct 29

VFX Reel Showcases the Best Exploding Heads and Gory Splatters From 7 Years of True Blood

The southern-fried supernatural soap operatics of True Blood may have ended last year, but the show’s groundbreaking special effects live on in this VFX reel that compiles the very best of Zoic Studios’ goriest contributions. Here’s the official description: HBO’s cult horror favorite “True Blood” took the vampire craze by storm, with 12 million viewers…

Television Cheryl Eddy Oct 28

A Confused True Blood Fan’s Guide To Magic Mike XXL

I was super-excited to find out that Alcide, the werewolf from True Blood was getting his own movie. It was classic. Alcide and a pack of hot shirtless men tour the South meeting eccentric characters with seemingly supernatural powers. There were some confusing bits, though. Let me take you through them. To be honest, this…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 1

Toxic Explosive Waste Threatens Town Where True Blood Was Filmed

The town of Doyline, in northwestern Louisiana, stood in for fictional Bon Temps during True Blood’s HBO run. Vampires and other supernatural beasties menaced onscreen, but the real-life town is facing a far greater concern: the to-be-decided fate of 15 million pounds of toxic explosives. Mother Jones takes an in-depth look at this environmental disaster…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 5

The Best And Worst Television Moments of 2014

This year’s science fiction and fantasy television delivered amazing highs and some cringe-worthy lows. We’ve rounded up the year’s best moments, along with some of the absolute worst (in no particular order) for your viewing pleasure. SPOILERS AHEAD. Best TV Moments from 2014: Community – Meow Meow Beans Community’s GI Joe intro was really good,…

Television Meredith Woerner Dec 18

True Blood Dies As It Lived—With A Lot Of What The Fuck

Last night we all said goodbye to True Blood forever, and shit got weird. Really weird and morbid and silly and—well, it was all just so very True Blood. Oh my god, this is it. The very last True Blood pro/con recap forever. Welp, let’s do this: Con: We pick up right in the beginning…

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 25

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HBO’s True Blood Looks Back at Itself With a Rewatch Podcast

Vampire Academy Coming to Peacock TV From Executive Producer Julie Plec

The Hunger Remake Rises From Its Sexy Vampire Grave

HBO’s Bringing True Blood Back From the Dead

10 TV Shows Where the First Season Was the Best Season

HBO Made a Bunch of Stuff Free to Watch, Here’s What You Should Check Out (or Skip)

10 Iconic TV Vampires, From Angel to The X-Files

Benedict Cumberbatch Could Have Been True Blood‘s Vampire Bill

Would You Live In NBC’s Midnight, Texas, a Town Filled With Were-Tigers, Demons, and Witches?

NBC’s Midnight, Texas Looks Like Delicious Supernatural Cheese

NBC’s Supernatural Thriller Midnight, Texas Looks Like a PG-Rated True Blood

Sleepy Hollow Casts Ichabod’s New Scully, Er, Partner

That True Blood Musical Is Apparently Still Happening

If Your Father Was a Pulp Science Fiction (and Porn) Writer in the 1970s, Life Got Pretty Weird

NBC Is Trying to Make the New True Blood

VFX Reel Showcases the Best Exploding Heads and Gory Splatters From 7 Years of True Blood

A Confused True Blood Fan’s Guide To Magic Mike XXL

Toxic Explosive Waste Threatens Town Where True Blood Was Filmed

The Best And Worst Television Moments of 2014

True Blood Dies As It Lived—With A Lot Of What The Fuck

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