From The Hollywood Reporter:

HBO is ordering a second season of new series “True Blood” after just two episodes.

The series, which follows the adventures of vampires in New Orleans, will go back into production early next year in anticipation of a new batch of episodes for the summer of 2009.

While the premiere episode of the series received a modest audience, HBO cited an “unprecedented” 24% increase in viewers for the second installment. In addition, the “Blood” premiere drew 4 million when additional runs of the that episode were tallied.

“We are absolutely thrilled that the critics and our viewers have embraced ‘True Blood,’” said Michael Lombardo, president of programming group and West Coast operations at HBO. “Alan Ball has done it again–made an addictive series that is unlike any other.”

“I am thrilled to be able to continue to work with such a talented group of writers, cast and crew to explore the characters and world created by Charlaine Harris in her novels,” said Alan Ball, executive producer of “Blood.”

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I’ve added 45 more images from the premiere of True Blood. I will be adding screencaps from the first episode soon, but for now I have added screencaps from Alan Ball POV, Making Of True Blood, Invitation To The Set, the extended Trailer, the Teaser that aired before the episode’s premiere, True Bloodlines: A New Type, True Bloodlines: Vampire Legends and The Buzz - Opening Night. All of these (with the exception of the teaser, maybe) are available on HBO On Demand.

Also, the official True Blood site received a makeover the other day, it’s definitely worth checking out. HBO also has a Wiki for the show. Speaking of the Wiki, thank you to whoever added a link to the site on there!

And, as suggested by a couple people a few posts down, I am considering opening up a forum for the site. I will personally not have much time to moderate it, but if any of you have experience in moderating forums and would like to help out, please e-mail me.

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I just wanted to remind everyone that True Blood premieres tonight at 9pm on HBO (United States), the Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Movie Channel (Western Canada)!

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I added 142 more images from last night’s premiere, and also images from the after party and the press conference.

I will be adding scans from this week’s TV Guide and this month’s Vogue as soon as my scanner wants to work properly for me.

There’s three new trailers for True Blood on YouTube as well. One, two, three.

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I’ve started adding photos from the True Blood premiere. More will be uploaded as I get them. You can check them out here

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Many thanks to my good friend, Rikki, for scanning an article in the September issue of SPIN for me and for also typing up the quotes from the article, which you can find here. The scan can be found in the gallery here.

I also added a couple new photos from the Comic-Con panel and signing thanks to heyybrother and hamish.

I meant to mention this a couple days ago, but right now on HBO, there is a Making True Blood special airing and also one on Alan Ball’s POV. Click on the respective titles for times, they are both also available for viewing on HBO On Demand, as well as another special called Invitation To The Set. For those of you without HBO are in luck because the network has added Alan’s Ball POV and the Invitation To The Set to their YouTube account.

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From WWD:

WWD: What attracted you to this part in the first place?

Anna Paquin: Well, this whole world is so kind of exciting and unusual as far as the supernatural elements but also has so much in it that’s really emotionally poignant and the characters are so strong and so well drawn out. My character is so tough but she’s sweet and she’s innocent, but she’s kind of worldly. There’s just so much to it that it does not get boring.

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