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Alexander Skarsgard Says Swedes Have A Lot Of Sex

Alexander Skarsgard in Out Magazine

In the latest issue of Out magazine, "True Blood" star Alexander Skarsgård chats with filmmaker and fellow Swede Jonas Akerlund about why Swedes are so liberal regarding their sexuality, the Americ...


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Quentin Tarantino Sues Alan Ball Over His 'Pterodactyl-Like' Birds

Quentin Tarantino

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is taking legal action in a bid to silence his neighbor's collection of "obnoxious" birds. The Pulp Fiction director is suing Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alan B...


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15 'True Blood' Spoilers: Plus, Why Powerful Vampire Eric is 'Completely Lost'

Alexander Skarsgard | Photo Credits: Doug Hyun/HBO

Trying to get True Blood executive producer Alan Ball and the cast of the HBO series to give away anything about the upcoming fourth season is not easy. Oh, but how they love to tease! During Satur...


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'True Blood' Recap - 'Evil is Going On'

True Blood

Finally, finally, finally Bill Compton shows his true colors on "True Blood." Maybe sometimes he can be lovey dovey and adorable with Sookie, but he can also be a snake in the grass who is desperat...


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True Blood Recap - 'Fresh Blood'

True Blood

So in True Blood Eric's plan for Sookie and Russell comes to fruition, and it's a little anti-climatic but it works too. The little hints about Sookie's abilities and what her blood means as a fair...


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True Blood Recap - 'I Smell A Rat'

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There's something very depressing about watching one of the best characters on True Blood spend an entire episode preparing for his death. Now obviously Eric Northman is going nowhere, but there wa...


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True Blood Recap - 'Everything Is Broken'

True_Blood

A very shocking fact: True Blood only has three more episodes left. Has this season flown by considerably fast, or is that just me? I was starting to wonder what the ending of this season was going...


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Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer Get Naked For The New Rolling Stone

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"True Blood" Stars Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer reveal plenty of secrets about their hit HBO series in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. Moyer puts in his perspective on his...


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True Blood Recap - 'Night On The Sun'

True Blood Recap

True Blood is great in a lot of ways, but sometimes you wonder if it'll ever give the audience a chance to breath. Even when the cast moves back to the currently calm world of Bon Temps, it doesn't...


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'True Blood' Recap - '9 Crimes'

True Blood

Wow. I feel like we constantly say 'wow' at True Blood, and it will never stop happening. Remember when finding Gran dead was the most insane thing we'd seen on the show so far, and then Rene was t...


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'True Blood' Recap - Beautifully Broken

True Blood

True Blood, what did we ever do without you in our life? It's so good to have the show back, and they're wasting no time before blowing the audience's collective mind. Previously on the show, Bill ...


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Q&A: Ian Somerhalder On His Return To 'Lost' And His Thoughts On 'The Vampire Diaries'

Ian Somerhalder Q&A

Ian Somerhalder is probably having the most fun of anybody on The CW's series The Vampire Diaries. He gets to play bad boy vampire Damon Salvatore. Free from worrying about being sympathetic, he's ...


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Q&A With Michael Ausiello: TV Fan, Media Journalist, and Neo-Celebrity (But Don't Try To Tell Him That!)

Michael Ausiello

Michael Ausiello, "Entertainment Weekly's" TV writer, is the "outbreak monkey" of his field. There is a new virus that is affecting the field of media journalism, and that plague is celebrity. The...


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Pre-Season 2009 TV Report Card: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Desperate Housewives

Since CNN has such a blast creating a report card to track the Presidency, we decided to have some fun with television. Which networks come out strong and which ones need to do better homework? ...


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What's With The Vampire Obsession? 'True Blood' Writer Explains

True Blood

The woman behind smash-hit TV series True Blood insists the world is obsessed with vampires because they never die, age or feel frail. Charlaine Harris, who penned the book that inspired TV wri...


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'True Blood' Recap: Evan Rachel Wood Disappoints, People Act Stupid

True Blood

"True Blood" is a pretty remarkable show in that the second season eclipsed the first one in terms of writing and excellent acting, which was a big deal since the first season was critically acclai...


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'True Blood' Makes An Impression At Comic-Con

True Blood

When "True Blood" first premiered on HBO last year, it already had quite an eager and excited audience. Perhaps it was the viral ads that HBO kept running, or the vampire-mania that was beginning t...


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'True Blood' Star Kristin Bauer Talks Whales & Vampires

Kristin Bauer

If you don't know her as vampire Pam from HBO's "True Blood," you may recognize Kristin Bauer from "Dark Angel", "JAG" or from the classic "Seinfeld" episode where she played Jerry's "Man Hands" gi...


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Everything Geeky: Onscreen Inaccuracy - Necessary or Needless?

The Tudors

I was recently flipping through channels on a quiet Sunday evening when the new show "Merlin" caught my eye. It was originally a British TV drama that did fairly well and premiered in the US on Jun...


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'True Blood' Gives HBO Best Ratings In Two Years

True Blood

True Blood's second season premiere on Sunday saw excellent ratings. According to HBO, 3.7 million viewers tuned in, up some 157 percent over the season 1 premiere and 51 percent over last year's f...


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Q&A: 'True Blood' Creator Alan Ball Talks New Season, Characters

True Blood

The second season of HBO's True Blood promises to be sexier, gorier, funnier and deeper than the first season, according to creator Alan Ball. He's absolutely right. Starpulse had a chance to r...


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Carrie Preston Dishes About 'True Blood,' Giving Birth To Her Husband & More

Carrie Preston

"True Blood" doesn't return until sometime this summer but natural blonde Carrie Preston, who plays spunky redheaded waitress Arlene, revealed some tidbits about season two (more creatures - yeah!)...


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Tyler Perry's Treatment Of Writers No Cause For Celebration

Tyler Perry

Atlanta - Saturday, October 4th: At a glittering gala event, a bevy of Hollywood power players including Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith and Sidney Poitier, entertainers (singers Mary J. Blige, John Leg...


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HBO Renews 'True Blood' For Second Season

True Blood

HBO has renewed the new drama series True Blood for a second season. Created by Alan Ball, the series will begin production of new episodes early next year in Los Angeles, with debut set for summer...


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Director Defends Controversial Tampon Scene In 'Towelhead'

Towelhead

Moviemaker Alan Ball has defended his decision to show a bloody tampon in his new film Towelhead, insisting it was important to detail his teenage lead character's first period on camera. Th...


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'True Blood' Creator Alan Ball Discusses Vampire Sex Appeal & More

True Blood

Vampires are the "it" supernatural species of the moment. When the CBS series "Moonlight" was canceled earlier this year, fans were devastated. Readers of the popular "Twilight" series attended m...


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Carrie Preston Discusses Her 'True Blood' Role And More

Carrie Preston

Carrie Preston is not only an actor, she has her own production company. So although she is featured in the new HBO series "True Blood" and has a cameo in Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," ...


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Anna Paquin Talks About New HBO Series 'True Blood'

True Blood

Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, the new HBO series True Blood kicks off its 12-episode season Sunday, Sept. 7 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT). Starring Academy Award® winner Anna Paquin and St...


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Vampire Series 'True Blood' Debuts Sept. 7 On HBO

True Blood

In the not-too-distant future, vampires have come out of the coffin. Thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood, vampires no longer need humans for their fix and can walk freely, if n...


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Is HBO Losing Its Edge?

The Sopranos

Remember the slogan, "It's not TV, It's HBO?" Well, up until a couple months ago this marketing ploy actually rang true. HBO has long been the trendsetter of original series that break all boundari...


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