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True Blood men have eyes for each other?

Season Three of the HBO vampire blood could result in the series’ vamps sucking more than just blood; word has it there will be a male-on-male pairing that doesn’t involve the show’s resident male gay, Lafayette.

In a swerve well away from the novels of Charlaine Harris, it appears show creator Alan Ball is set on having Vampire Bill Compton hooking up with were-dog Sam Merlott in a horizontal way. Of course, true to the show’s vampiric origins, the coupling will come as a result of a blood exchange between the pair that was necessary at the end of season two for Bill to save Sam’s life.

In the Harris novels, the sharing of blood between vampire and human has been established to create a psychic and sexual bond. So it’s not that the two will be suddenly talking about the best face cream with each other; it will be the result of a plot device long-established in the Harris novels, but never exploited in exactly this pairing.

Good news for True Blood fans!

While HBO is putting its PR department on diet pills rather than reveal whether TRUE BLOOD will be renewed for a third season, there is good news for fans of the series. At the San Diego Comic-Con, author of the book series that inspired the TV phenom, Charlaine Harris, announced she’d just signed a three-book deal on her Sookie Stackhouse novels that will keep the series alive through 2014, at least.

Of course, the next book in the series is expected to arrive on schedule in May 2010, and her current book contract for Sookie goes through the novel expected in May 2011. The new contract covers annual installments expected in May 2012, May 2013 and May 2014. Ms. Harris seems to inspire plenty of confidence in publishers through her speed and efficiency in delivering entertaining reads in a timely manner.

True Blood looks like a true guilty pleasure

Based on the Southern Vampire Mystery/Sookie Stackhouse books by author Charlaine Harris, HBO’s newest original series, True Blood, is the first new drama from Alan Ball, creator of the now-defunct Six Feet Under. With a combination of humor, horror, mystery and romance, the show captures the frenetic, fun energy of Harris’ novels.

Featuring a cast where no one is in need of acne treatments, the star of the show is X-Men’s Anna Paquin, who plays Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress who, with the help of her vampire friend Bill, solves crimes.

The debut episode is more graphically sexual and features stronger objectionable language than Harris’ novels, but otherwise stays close and true to the source material. In fact, the debut episode that played tonight is taken almost directly from the first few chapters of Harris’ first Sookie novel, Dead Until Dark.

The big question is whether the freshman melodrama can stand up well against the third season of Showtime’s popular serial killer drama, Dexter.