From Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) comes this weekly HBO series based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris.
True Blood takes place in the fictional small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, where humans and vampires live out an uneasy co-existence after a Japanese-made synthetic blood called "TruBlood" becomes widely available.
Anna Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress who becomes attracted to one of the vampires (Stephen Moyer).
The series will premiere on September 7, 2008, with Ball writing and directing the pilot episode. A rough version of the pilot has already been leaked online though...