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The HBO Store in New York is completely decorated in True Blood style.

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Photos by Mary Jo

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Evan Rachel Wood, who will play queen Sophie Anne this season, will be a guest on the Jimmy Fallon Show on Thursday, June 25, on NBC.
Check local airing times on the Jimmy Fallon website.

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Anna Paquin is featured in the July issue of Self Magazine. Here are the scans of the pages.

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Special thanks to Tara for the scans.

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Television Without Pity presents the Tubey Awards. True Blood and it’s actors received nominations and need your vote!

Poll #1 True Blood for Best New Show
Poll #7 True Blood for Most Underrated Show
Poll #11 True Blood for Guiltiest Pleasure Show
Poll #15 Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood) and Alexander Skarsgard (Generation Kill) for Favorite Actor
Poll #21 Sookie and Jason (True Blood) and Sookie and her Grandmother (True Blood) for Best Family Relationship

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Ryan Kwanten attended the Celebration Dinner Honoring 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival Keyote Films held at BOA Steakhouse on June 16, 2009 in West Hollywood, California.

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Written by Dorothea McMahon for The Vault

I was robbed. Spoilers are to blame. I’ve spent seven months reading and posting about True Blood, everything I could possibly gobble up. Every cast call, every new episode update, interview, photo and pod cast. Reading what was provided here on The Vault and going to other sites when there was word that some new and exciting information was given, fed my obsession. There were months when there was not much to fill the void left by the end of the first season, so we’d rehash Season 1′s episodes and analyze them frame by frame (I know how nutty this sounds, by the way) trying to predict and understand character’s motivations and future actions.

So with the approach of Season 2, there was a ramping up of information. Our web gurus found True Blood everywhere. True Blood had become a phenomenon, and interest in the new season’s shows translated to Stephen Moyer guesting on talk shows. Of course, accompanying his appearances were clips of the new season. The View was his first stop and it was there that I saw the “I love you” scene for the first time. Of course, my initial reaction, being the romantic softy that I am, was delight and great sympathy for my beloved Bill. For those of us who have read the Sookie Stackhouse series, we wondered how and when True Blood Bill would tell Sookie this for the first time. Well now we knew. And then there was replay after replay, to study Bill’s every facial expression and Sookie’s reaction. And like an addict, I couldn’t stop myself, even though I knew I’d regret the numbing affect watching this clip was having on me. How could I not watch? It’s what I’d been waiting for since the last episode of Season 1 aired.

Conversations about what we would see in Season 2 increased. Conjecture increased. Conjecture was replaced by spoilers that seemingly appeared everywhere. Because I’m so ravenous for information, no thread was safe from my eager eyes. I read the spoiler thread because it was merely conjecture, but then at some point, it changed from poster’s guesses and discussion to actual leaks of information. I continued reading because I am an addict. We may have to start a twelve step program for the True Blood addicted. First meeting…my house.

There were clips of the sex scene, the much anticipated sex scene. As a lover of all things Bill, it was impossible for me not to watch, or to imagine what happened before and after this thumbnail look at Bill and Sookie. Bill looked predatory. Where are they? Every possible scenario was thought of and discussed.

Lafayette was dead, or was he? For months the lot of us have lamented what we thought was the demise of this favorite character. The book killed him. Was True Blood going to follow Charlaine Harris’ plot? How would they be able to keep him in the show if they diverged from the book? Why was he attending or not attending various Season 2 gatherings? What would be his fate? Well, unfortunately, I found out. I’d stopped reading the spoiler threads a while ago, realizing that there were things being divulged that were going to ruin it all for me. Unfortunately, spoilers were appearing in the darndest places. And even if spoilers were removed, replies would appear to spoiler posts that were revealing. I stopped reading anything having to do with Lafayette.

I guess people just want everyone to know that they know. They want to be in the loop. Makes ‘em feel important. Makes ‘em feel like an insider.

June 14 finally comes. Even though I’ve had a foretaste I was wondering what will be revealed. The kids weren’t home, we tuned into HBO early to see anything, everything leading up to he first episode. As I watch, I realize that I’m feeling a terrible disappointment. I’m watching the “I love you” scene with a surprising feeling of detachment. The sex scene seems to be much too short and without the verbal foreplay I’d imagined since seeing the spoiler clip and is left til nearly the end. Would I have been less disappointed if I hadn’t built it up so in my mind after having it played and replayed? And Lafayette…Lafayette. There he is, alive. I’m surprised and confused by the situation that he finds himself in, but not the least surprised that he’s there, alive. I feel robbed. I’ve been deprived of the surprise, deprived of that Christmas morning feeling.

Yes, it’s partially my fault. As I said, I’m incapable of looking away. But after watching this first episode with such detachment, I wish I had seen and read less, much less. I’ve been told that there would be information about the first four episodes floating around, enticing us to have a look. I will try not to look. I want the remainder of the season to be as much of a surprise and delight as the first season was. Wish me luck.

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Now that we all know that it wasn’t Lafayette in the back of that car, HBO has released his promo photos.

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True Blood draws the highest ratings of any HBO program in more than two years.

The second season premiere of True Blood drew 3.7 million viewers Sunday. That makes it the most watched program on the network since the series finale of The Sopranos, which aired June 10, 2007.

That is also up 157% compared to the series premiere and 51% to last year’s series finale.
When the 11 p.m. replay is factored into the equation, True Blood drew 5.1 million viewers, the largest Sunday gross ever for the series.

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