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
One of this fall's big programming events wasn't actually broadcast on TV. Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, a live-action series geared toward the launch of the new Xbox 360 video game, has become a hit for YouTube, where it runs on the young male-oriented Machinima Prime channel.
YouTube is taking on the traditional TV model in a big way, with the help of major stars, original programs like Halo 4 and big events like Felix Baumgartner's space jump, which broke YouTube user records on Oct. 14. A year after YouTube parent Google unleashed an aggressive $100 million initiative to launch around 100 original programming channels (and committed $200 million to market the channels), viewership on the platform was up 11 percent year-to-year in September.
It's a slow build, and so far YouTube's original programming initiative hasn't produced a hit that was big enough to enter the public consciousness. But according to newly released comScore data, YouTube users spent an average of 419.1 minutes watching video in September, compared to 378 minutes in Sept. 2011.
read moreTwo months after True Blood couple Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin had twins, their sexes have finally been revealed.
True Blood: Where sexy meets gross!
According to Life & Style, Paquin, 30, and Moyer, 43, welcomed a boy and a girl in September. "Anna is a natural mother, and Stephen is a doting dad," the magazine adds. "He turns to mush around those kids
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