The TV Addict 

“Bedtime at 4am, Recycling is a must. No hunting humans.” — Bill explains the rules of the house to Vampire newbie Jessica in the second season premiere of TRUE BLOOD.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
PASSWORD (8PM CBS)
Why? Because Jeff Garlin and Chelsea Hander guest.

TRUE BLOOD (9PM HBO)
TWILIGHT for adults kicks off its second season tonight with the citizens of Bon Temps worried about another murderer on the loose, Sookie worried about the presence of Bill’s teen protégé Jessica, and this TV Addict worried that his blinds are properly closed so that our nosy neighbors don’t incorrectly assume that we’re watching soft core porn.

NEW & NOTABLE:
TWINS BY SURPRISE (8PM DHLTH)
Discovery Health profiles four mothers who believed they were pregnant with one child only to end up giving birth to twins! Soon to be followed-up by Discovery Health’s profile of four unemployed OBGYN’s!

HAMMERTIME (10PM A&E)
Too Legit… too legit to quit… show-business, as evidence by tonight’s new A&E reality series chronicling the life of one Stanley Burrell, better known by his once ubiquitous stage name: MC Hammer.

Good News: HBO renewed the Alan Ball Vampire series TRUE BLOOD after only two episodes. Bad News: The renewal comes from the network that green-lit a second season of IN TREATMENT and a DEADWOOD wrap-up movie. And how are those projects going… oh wait… [Source]

Good News: In related Vampire news, MOONLIGHT fans will finally get something exciting to sink their teeth into. Bad News: It’s not a second season. Rather the announcement of a DVD release, which let’s face it, effectively puts a final nail into any and all hope for a second season. [Source]

Good News: The second episode of FRINGE was up an astounding 68% from the show’s tepidly received season premiere. Bad News: We’re pretty sure a test pattern would do well following the highly anticipated series premiere of HOUSE. [Source]

4:26PM: T-Minus four, wait, now three minutes until HBO’s TRUE BLOOD panel. Or as I like to call it, the only way to guarantee our seats for the DEXTER panel that follows immediately thereafter.

4:32PM: Since theTVaddict.com doesn’t endorse illegal downloading, I finally got a first look at TRUE BLOOD courtesy of a trailer HBO produced exclusively for Comic Con. It’s pretty much X-MEN, but with really sexy Vampires. Oh, and fellow Canadian Anna Paquin.

4:44PM:Creator Alan Ball [SIX FEET UNDER] promises to avoid the big three Vampire clichés: Blue light, Contact lenses and Opera music. Which is all well and good, but if you ask me, the big thing Ball should concentrate on avoiding is cancellation! Moment of silence for MOONLIGHT…

4:49PM: Because Anna Paquin’s protagonist Sookie Stackhouse is telepathic, she has remained a virgin. Take that ABC Family’s SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER.

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By: Kevin Kelly, Special TCA Correspondent

Well, it’s Friday night, and you know what that means. A fresh episode of MOONLIGHT! Sorry, was that a bit too cruel? It would have been a reality if bone-headed CBS hadn’t cancelled the show, which was pretty damned fang-tastic. But I know, I’m preaching to the choir here.

HBO is hoping that they can fill the gap left by the stake of cancellation with their new Alan Ball series TRUE BLOOD. Ball is moving deftly from working with the dead in SIX FEET UNDER to the undead in this adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire novels. A psychic waitress, a 173 year-old vampire, lots of sex… what could go wrong?

Ball came across Harris’ books when he showed up early for a dental appointment and went to the Barnes & Noble to kill time. The tagline “Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend wasn’t such a good idea” caught his eye, and he couldn’t put the book down. Apparently when you’re Alan Ball and that happens, it means there’s a TV series in it.

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