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HBO Sets True Blood Season 6 Premiere Date

True Blood will return for its sixth season on Sunday, June 16 at 9/8c on HBO, the network announced Friday.

The sixth season will be comprised of 10 episodes, down from...read more

True Blood's Showrunner Shakeup: Alan Ball's Replacement Steps Down

True Blood showrunner Mark Hudis, who took over the job from creator Alan Ball in May, has now been replaced by writer-producer Brian Buckner, The Hollywood Reporter reports.read more

Inside Cinemax's Bloody Hit Banshee

On a hot fall afternoon just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, Antony Starr is busy getting punched in the kidneys, slammed against a wall and kicked in the solar plexus. As he pauses for a breath, a command comes: "Let's work on that strangling again!" Just a typical day on the set of Banshee.

Flash back to late April. On the first day of shooting, the actor playing Starr's opponent in a brawl came at him a bit too strong. "He cracked me in the face and split my lip open," Starr recalls, "but our schedule was so tight, I didn't get to the hospital for six hours." That's when Starr realized just how different filming Cinemax's noirish thriller would be from the comedies and dramas he was used to making in his native New Zealand. "They shot...read more

Alan Ball: Videos

'Six Feet Under: Sn 1 / Ep 12 Recap' (HBO)
'Six Feet Under: Season 2 Recap' (HBO)
Banshee: A Look Ahead
True Blood: Oh Sookie: Snoop Dogg

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2013 Banshee TV Show Series, Executive Producer
2010 Scream 2010 TV Show Series, Appearing
2008 Towelhead Movie, Director
2008 True Blood TV Show Series, Executive Producer
2008 True Blood TV Show Series, Creator

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Banshee: Cinemax Blends Sexy Pulp with a Tragic Love Story

When choosing his next television project, former House  executive producer Greg Yaitanes simply wanted to get out of a hospital.

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And so, he landed on Banshee, the latest sexy, pulpy thriller in Cinemax's expanding slate of original programming. Also produced by True Blood creator Alan Ball, the show takes its title from the quiet Pennsylvania town in which it's set. But the relative calm of the rural Amish country locale is quickly upset when a recently freed ex-con (Antony Starr) comes to town and, in a violent twist of fate, assumes the identity of the new town sheriff Lucas Hood.

Even though Yaitanes was looking to get away from lupus and lab coats, he says he found more similarities between Banshee and House than he first considered. "Lucas Hood and Gregory House both play by their own rules, and both characters are emotionally immature," he tells TVGuide.com. "They've been stunted in a moment in time... read more

Weekend TV Playlist: Fringe, Banshee, Girls Returns, Golden Globes, More

Next Friday, it will all be over for fans of Fox's super-freaky but deeply heartfelt sci-fi extravaganza Fringe. And quite a ride it's been, through parallel universes and surreal head trips and baffling time leaps, landing its heroes into a climactic war for humanity's survival against the invading Observers, oppressive Mean Baldies from the future who favor intellect over pesky emotion. read more

Cinemax Reveals Premiere Date for New Drama From True Blood's Alan Ball

Just months after stepping down from his showrunner duties on True Blood, Alan Ball is getting to debut his new Cinemax series Banshee.

The action series, also executive-produced by House vet Greg Yaitanes, will premiere on... read more

Weekend TV Review: Hunted, Hitchcock's Girl, Showtime Showstoppers and More

Remember the old X-Files mantra "Trust No One?" One of its producers surely does, and in creating the new Cinemax spy thriller Hunted, Frank Spotnitz makes it clear from the first scenes that you can't always trust your eyes, either.

"At least... read more

Departing True Blood Showrunner Alan Ball Tackles Finale Burning Questions

After five deliriously bloody seasons, True Blood's creator and showrunner Alan Ball is departing. (He's currently exec producing the "noir" thriller Banshee for Cinemax). But first, Ball answers some finale burning questions — and offers some thoughts on next season. read more

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