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Jim Parrack as Hoyt holding the creepy baby doll

The creepy baby doll is terrorizing Bon Temp, well at least two households anyway.

It was first with Jessica and Hoyt, but Jessica managed to pawn it off on Arlene and Terry after she and Hoyt couldn’t get rid of it. The vampire/human couple threw it in the trash and then, in the river, but it just kept coming back.  Now, it’s Terry and Arlene’s problem.  

We would love to find out what is up with this creepy doll even though we know we’ll have to wait and watch True Blood to get the answer.

However, below Alan Ball shares some information about it’s origin which provides some clues.

When speaking to journalists gathered at the Television Critics Press tour on Thursday, Ball explained that the little hellion became a plot point because “once we made the decision in the writers’ room to jump ahead in time, we knew that the baby would be here.”

The child, biological son of Arlene’s dead serial-killer ex Rene (Michael Raymond-James), is now paired up with an even more terrifying tyke — the creepy baby doll.

“I think I actually wrote the script,” Ball says of the introduction of the dirty, mangled plaything to the series last season. “Hoyt (Jim Parrack) and Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) came together after a season of being apart, and they moved in, and he said, ‘You know, let’s go to New Hampshire. I’ll become a minister and marry you,’ and they hugged. And it just felt like, OK,” Ball reminisces of the almost-too-happy reunion. “So I said, ‘There should be something weird, like maybe let’s just put a creepy doll in.’ So the camera tilts down, and you see a creepy doll. I had no idea where that was going to go,” Ball says. “Then when we came back to work this season, I said, ‘We’ve got to pick up that doll. We’ve got to figure out what’s going on with that doll.’ And, you know, that doll has found its way to the creepy baby.”

Ball won’t spill the certainly evil secrets behind the pair, but confirms “they’re teamed up now. There’s something going on between those two. I can tell you that.”

source: metro.us

Season 4 Spoiler Alert!

As True Blood starts charging towards the Season 4 finale, executive producer Alan Ball was on hand at HBO’s summer TV session to dish out a few spoilers — and when we say few, we mean very few. Here is the transcript of our rapid-fire lightning round with the very cagey Ball:

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The True Blood cast have put out some new Public Service Announcements in support of the Trevor Project. We applaud them for showing their support.

Join the cast of True Blood as they take the “It Gets Better” pledge: http://www.itgetsbetter.org. The Trevor Project offers help to any young person who is struggling.

The Trevor Project is determined to end suicide among LGBTQ youth by providing life-saving and life-affirming resources including our nationwide, 24/7 crisis intervention lifeline, digital community and advocacy/educational programs that create a safe, supportive and positive environment for everyone.

Watch Alan Ball, Kristin Bauer, Alexander Skarsgård and Rutina Wesley as they share their personal stories.

Michael Ausiello interviews Alan Ball in the video below about Season 4 at the San Diego Comic-Con 2011 today.  Alan revealed that their might be a threesome between Sookie, Bill and Eric and about the romance between Jessica and Jason as well as admitting that there will be quite a few “major characters” that might meet their fate this season.

Is True Blood about to turn the Bill-Sookie-Eric triangle into a threesome?

That’s the first thought that crossed my mind when I eyed this provocative teaser for the HBO drama’s Aug. 21 episode: “Convalescing after her latest near-death trauma, Sookie envisions a world where there’s room for both Bill and Eric.”

Does that mean what I think it means? You better believe I dropped that exact question on exec producer Alan Ball’s lap when he visited TVLine’s Comic-Con interview suite Friday afternoon. And while I was at it, I also pumped Bon Temps’ puppet master for scoop on the burgeoning romance between Jessica and Jason and just how high this season’s body count would climb.

source: tvline.com

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True Blood’s executive producer Alan Ball has dropped hints about what is coming up for Bill and Portia in future episodes of Season 4.

SPOILER ALERT!

Last episode we saw Bill break off the relationship with he and Portia after discovering that he is actually one of Portia’s ancestors.

Ball has now hinted that Portia may be keen to continue the romance despite being related to Bill.

“It certainly puts a crimp in their relationship,” he told TV Guide. “Her being a lawyer, she may try to argue why it shouldn’t be such a big deal.

“But Bill’s an old-fashioned man. I don’t think he’s going to be able to get past that one.”

We know that many have already expressed concerns about this relationship in the comments at previous posts, but there are just as many who think that there’s nothing wrong with it. Bill and Portia are very distantly related and Bill, being essentially “dead”, seems to justify their coupling. After all, in some states in the USA first cousins can even marry.

However, we’ll just have to wait and see what might happen.

Let us know your opinions on this topic. What do you think about Bill and Portia’s possible reuniting?

source: digitalspy.com

True Blood’s Alan Ball, will make his Australian debut appearance at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Thursday, September 8.

Uncompromisingly honest, engaging and provocative, Ball will appear in-conversation with comedian Wil Anderson.

A writer/producer/director/playwright with a uniquely subversive voice, Ball’s work has captured imaginations all over the world by laying bare America’s underbelly. He has used some of the most surprising metaphors seen on screens both big and small.

Alan Ball: Vampires, Death and the Mundane is a unique opportunity to gain real insights into the mind and methods of the man behind it all – a complex and fascinating character who describes himself as “equal parts brutally cynical and achingly romantic.”

Tickets on sale to the general public Friday 22 July sydneyoperahouse.com / 9250 7777

source: southern-courier.whereilive.com.au

Academy and Emmy-Award winning writer and Executive Producer of True Blood, Alan Ball will be featured on the next installment of Iconography, an exclusive series that honors the life, career, and impact of iconic personalities. Best known for his work on American Beauty, Six Feet Under, and True Blood, Ball has played an influential role in recreating American entertainment. Don’t miss this OutQ exclusive where Ball describes it all in his own words, as well as interviews with Oscar winner Anna Paquin, actor Stephen Moyer, Oscar winners Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinx, and Tony award winner Denis O’Hare.

Airing:

Sat July 23rd 1 pm & 7pm ET

Sun July 24th 12 pm & 7 pm ET

source: siriusxm.com

SPOILER ALERT

This past Sunday’s episode concluded with Eric sucking the life out of Claudine, Sookie’s fairy godmother. The twist surprised many fans of Charlaine Harris’ book series, because Claudine doesn’t bite the dust until much later in the novels. Alan Ball tells EW that just because Sookie’s mentor is gone doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of the fairy world. “After everything that was going on with the fairies in the first episode, I think we wanted to sort of put a pin in that, but obviously it’s not over,” says Ball. “I felt it would have more impact if it was someone we knew as opposed to just a random fairy.”

It’s also another example of Blood diverging from its source material, like keeping Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) alive and introducing the original character of Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll). Says Ball, “If we did just do everything in the books, there would be no surprises. It’s not like we have a formula for what we’re going to keep from the books and what we’re going to change. If there’s a consensus that something makes sense, that’s usually the way we go.” For her part, Harris says she “was surprised” by the death of Claudine, but trusts in Ball and where he takes the stories. Says the author, “If he can be gracious to me, I can certainly be gracious enough to wait and see where he’s going.”

Another shocking scene was Jason being raped by the women of Hot Shot. “Well of course it’s twisted — Hot Shot is twisted,” says Ball. “They’re crazy inbred freaks. They call each other Uncle Daddy! Hello! It’s a twisted world.”

“It gets ugly between the vampires and the witches,” says Ball. “There’s more than one fight coming up. There’s also a very unexpected romantic attachment which you’ll start to see the beginnings of I believe in next week’s episode. We’re gonna find out a lot about Jesus’ magic that’s in his family. We’re gonna get to the bottom of what’s going on with Arlene’s baby.”

Source: EW

True Blood’s executive producer Alan Ball has revealed that he has not yet signed up for a fifth season of True Blood.

The show’s fourth run premiered at the weekend but Ball told TV Line that he is still in talks to remain on the series next year.

“I’m negotiating,” he explained.

Ball also revealed that he is confident about the future of True Blood even though it has not yet been officially renewed for a fifth season by HBO.

“There are no plans for this show to end,” he said. “I’m pretty sure there will be at least one more season, if not more. It seems like it has a lot of life in it still.”

source: digitalspy.com

True Blood’s fourth season premiered last night and it presented us with one of the biggest surprises that Tara’s (Rutina Wesley) had a sexuality shift. The plot twist has been speculated about for a couple weeks now, but the character’s identity had fans guessing.

Wesley tells The Hollywood Reporter that she’ll be a bit relieved once the cat’s out of the bag. “I’m really excited, because people keep asking me about it and I can’t talk about it and it drives me crazy,” she says.

Last Season, Tara found herself in a deep depression over the death of her lover, Eggs (Mehcad Brooks), and then trapped in a violent affair with vampire Franklin Mott (James Frain). After discovering that pretty much everyone around her was connected somehow to the supernatural freakiness that is Bon Temps, she left town. It was that breaking point that informed the production team that it was time for a change.

“We felt like it was time for Tara to stop being the victim,” Creator Alan Ball tells us. “It was time for Tara to really take charge of her life in a way that would be surprising and would give us some fun places to go story wise. We thought, ‘If somebody has been through something like that, maybe they would be prompted to create a whole new life and identity.’ And why not?”

Wesley says she was surprised at first by her character’s storyline this season, but it began making sense to her. “After I thought about it, I was like I can see that,” she tells us.
“She’s got some new skin so to speak and she’s living life to its fullest and I think that’s a beautiful thing honestly to see a person go through that sort of change,” she adds. “Without putting any labels to it, she sort of fallen in love and that’s OK, you know. I just think that’s amazing.”

Tara’s storyline does open a can of worms when it comes to gay portrayals on television. After all, the series has gone a long way in training its viewers to see vampire sexuality as fluid and still some viewers have found issue with the show’s “barrage of homosexuality” as Philadelphia Eagles player, Todd Herremans, tweeted last August. And that was definitely discussed by True Blood’s producers and writers.

“Yes, we did talk about what that meant,” executive producer Alexander Woo says. “Was she always curious? Did she always have sexual interest in men and women? I think we figured that we certainly were careful not to suggest that her life and the course of her life drew her into a relationship with another woman. But I think what Tara does at the beginning of this year is that she sees an opportunity to start completely fresh, start completely new and not being tied down with all these patterns that created so much suffering.”

Wesley tells us that she really only worries about one message her character’s lesbian relationship may send to viewers. “My main thing is I don’t think it’s because my character has such bad luck with men,” she says.

To read the rest of this interview go to the source: hollywoodreporter.com