Carrie Preston to star in an HBO series

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HBO Picks Up New Alan Ball Series "True Blood" with Trammell, Paquin and Preston

By Andrew Gans
and Ernio Hernandez
13 Aug 2007

HBO has picked up "True Blood," the new vampire series created by playwright and screenwriter Alan Ball, according to Variety.

Ball — whose play, All That I Will Ever Be, was seen at New York Theatre Workshop last season — had much success with his previous HBO series, "Six Feet Under."

His new work, based on the novel series "Southern Vampire" by Charlaine Harris, is set in a small town in Louisiana. The program, according to the industry paper, "follows the world of vampires, who are able to co-exist with humans by drinking a Japanese-manufactured synthetic blood. The show contains a dose of humor alongside the horror."

Ball wrote and directed the series pilot, which features Anna Paquin, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Stephen Moyer, Brook Kerr, Carrie Preston and Michael Raymond-James. No air date has been announced, although Ball has already written several additional episodes. Production is expected to begin some time this fall.

Paquin will play a waitress named Sookie Stackhouse, who falls for a vampire played by Moyer.

Creator Ball will produce "True Blood" with HBO.

Prior to achieving Hollywood fame as the screenwriter of the Oscar-winning "American Beauty," Ball was an Off-Broadway playwright. His most notable credit was Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, which played at MCC Theatre in 1993. The cast included Allison Janney.

SOURCE: PlayBill

Comments

[galileah-galile.livejournal.com]

I'm not really looking for another show to watch, but everyone involved is so good-guess I'll have to check it out.
(I may get in real trouble for saying this, but I didn't especially enjoy Carrie in Straight Jacket, but maybe I just wan't in on the kitchyness or something. I would like to see her in something else and this looks good)

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

I personally did not like Straight-Jacket. I didn't think that it translated very well from live theatre to movie film.

Frankly, I find Michael the better actor of the couple. But she is not that bad. She was quite good in The Insider.