ET and TV Guide magazine teamed up to pick the 10 sexiest men on TV, which is the cover story for the issue on newsstands March 26. Patrick Dempsey had the distinction of being TV Guide magazine’s sexiest man on TV two years in row. This year he has been replaced by ”The Mentalist” star Simon Baker.
Rounding out the list are: George Eads, David Boreanaz, Maksim Chmrekovskiy, Ryan Kwanten, Matthew Settle, Daniel Sunjata, Bailey Chase, Cristian de la Fuente and Brody Jenner.
source: ET Online
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When news broke that Kiwi Anna Paquin and her True Blood co-star were dating, writer-director Alan Ball was not pleased.
“I’ll be honest when it first happened, I was like: Uh oh,” he told the Sunday Star-Times.
But he quickly came round, as the romance between Paquin and Englishman Stephen Moyer blossomed.
“It’s the real deal. They really fell in love, and you can see that in the show. You can see the attraction and chemistry. It’s all good.”
In the show, which screens on Prime from Wednesday, Moyer plays 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton, who returns to live in a small Louisiana town and falls in love with Paquin’s Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress who can read people’s minds.
The two now live together in LA, though Moyer travels regularly to London where he has two children from a previous relationship.
In an interview with US TV Guide Moyer, 37, admitted the sparks flew with Paquin, 26, at the first audition for the series last year, but they deliberately kept it quiet.
“The show is the star, not the two people having a relationship.”
In an interview with the Star-Times in today’s Focus section, Ball said Paquin had “aggressively” pursued the role. “When my casting director said, would you be interested in Anna Paquin, I said, uh, yeah, would she be interested in this?”
Even though she has a glittering career in movies such as X-Men, Ball realised True Blood could allow Paquin to do things she mightn’t on the big screen.
He was right – it won her the 2008 Golden Globe award for best TV actress in a drama, to add to her 1993 Oscar for The Piano.
“She is the tent pole that this show hangs on. She is delightful in this role. She’s charming, she’s innocent, she’s pretty, she’s fiery, she’s romantic, and you just really, really love her.”
And she’s just the same in real life, he says down to earth, professional, fun to be around.
But one of the big topics Ball had to canvass during casting was asking the pale and dark New Zealander a crucial question for her to truly become Sookie, the sassy and tanned southerner in the short shorts of Charlaine Harris’s books: Are you willing to go blonde?
“She was like, ‘Of course. This is something I would never do just on my own because it seems so superficial. But now I have an excuse to do it.”‘
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A new villain is coming to True Blood’s blood-loving, fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps, and the vampires are not happy campers.
“There’s a new supernatural creature in town, one I’ve never seen on TV,” says a source on the set of the HBO series. “Even vampires are scared of this thing. We’ll be seeing a lot more of Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) this year. Romance is in the air for most of our main characters, but as always with our show, nothing is ever what it seems.”
Drama also ensues when Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) take a business trip out of Bon Temps and find themselves in the middle of some sticky vampire politics, according to our source.
A new casting call for season 2 has just been released.
Spoiler alert!
Read the casting call after the cut.
The only argument that divides the loyal fans of True Blood is who Sookie should be with. Bill? Eric? Or maybe Sam?
There are fans who cannot imagine True Blood without the Sookie and Bill romance, others would like to see her in the arms of viking Eric and there are those who wouldn’t mind seeing them in a threesome. What ever your preference…….. you can have it…. if you are a The Sims 2 player that is.
LL 30 Sims created Sam, Sookie, Bill and Eric for your The Sims 2 gameplay. You can download the characters from the LL 30 Sims website.
The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Art and with over 100 milion copies sold world wide The Sims 2 is one of the most popular computer games ever. Pleasantville is one of the neighborhoods within The Sims 2.
Valerie Cruz has been cast in a role for the second season of True Blood. Valerie is best known for her portrayal of Sylvia Prado in another bloodsoaked show “Dexter”.
Valerie Cruz
More about her role on True Blood after the break.
Spoiler Alert!
Every True Blood episode is named after a song. The sixth episode of Season 2 is titled “Friend Is A Four Letter Word”.
“Friend is a Four Letter Word” is the name of the last single from the 1996 hit album “Fashion Nugget” by alternative rock band Cake from Sacramento, California.
CAKE – Friend is a Four Letter Word
to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
end is the only part of the word
that i heard.
call me morbid or absurd.
but to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
end is the only part of the word
that I heard.
call me morbid or absurd.
but to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
when I go fishing for the words
i am wishing you would say to me,
i’m really only praying
that the words you’ll soon be saying
might betray the way you feel about me.
but to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
I found some information about the meaning of this song and if it is any indication of what will happen in this episode…. it doesn’t look good…
“This song is about a girl who breaks up with a guy by telling him they should be “Friends.” This is not what he wants to hear, and to his ears, and the resulting heartbreak makes him think of the word “Friend” as dirty and cruel – similar to many vulgar 4-letter words in the English language.”
The casting call for Episode 2.06 – Friend Is a Four Letter Word has been released.
This episode will start filming on the 20th March and is directed by Michael Lehman and written by Brian Buckner.
Spoiler warning!
Read the casting call after the break.
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