The most recent featured clip on HBO’s The Buzz includes a look at the shows currently in production for HBO. It features some footage of True Blood shooting and Alan Ball talking about the show. You can view it here.

The current issue of TV Guide has a blurb about HBO, which includes a new photo from “True Blood” of Sookie (Anna) and Bill (Stephen Moyer). I’ve added a scan of it to the gallery here.

From Charlaine Harris’ Message board:

Here is some information: TRUE BLOOD will air in the fall. Shooting is about to resume. All systems are go.

Charlaine Harris

HBO has been airing their 2007 montage which includes footage from new things debuting in 2008. There’s about a 2-second clip of True Blood in the video, which can be found here. Just a reminder that the show’s original projected debut of January 2008 is delayed until whenever the WGA strike ends so that filming can resume.

From Variety:

As for other HBO skeins in production, “True Blood” is in the middle of its third seg, while “12 Miles of Bad Road” has completed six segs. Both remain in production for now, but will shut down once current scripts are produced.

Alan Ball is back in HBO’s court, as the paycabler has officially picked up the vampire series “True Blood.”

Ball, who created the hit “Six Feet Under” for HBO, will exec produce and showrun “True Blood,” which is based on the novel series “Southern Vampire” from author Charlaine Harris.

Net is still ironing out an episodic order and airdate, but “True Blood” is expected to go into production this fall. Ball, who wrote and directed the pilot, already has penned several more episodes.

” ‘True Blood’ proves that Alan continues as a master of his craft,” said HBO entertainment prexy Carolyn Strauss.

Ball first started working on the project in October 2005, when he signed a two-year overall pact with HBO. The project was eventually rolled to this year, and was shot earlier this summer with stars Anna Paquin, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Stephen Moyer and Brook Kerr.

Set in small-town Louisiana, series follows the world of vampires, who are able to co-exist with humans by drinking a Japanese-manufactured synthetic blood. While spooky, the show also contains a dose of humor alongside the horror.

“Charlaine has created such a rich environment that’s very funny and at the same time very scary,” Ball told Daily Variety after first selling the project in 2005. “I bought the book on impulse and I just couldn’t put it down.”

Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress who winds up falling for the vampire Bill Compton (played by Moyer) and who has powers of her own. Carrie Preston and Michael Raymond-James round out the cast.

Ball recently directed the film “Nothing is Private.” Ball’s Your Face Goes Here Entertainment shingle will produce “True Blood” with HBO.

Source: Variety

In response to a fan’s question on her message board about the time frame in which we’ll find out if True Blood is picked up or not, Charlaine Harris said “Probably within the next two weeks.”