Alexander Skarsgård: “I would love to work with the Cohen brothers”

by ZZ at True Blood News

Swedish online publication Onyanserat published today an interview with Alexander and our friends at alexskarsgard.net already have the translation. So enjoy!

From a freezing cold Stockholm to a burning hot Los Angeles. “Onyanserat” give you a little chat with Alexander Skarsgård.

What is a typical day in your life like? -I get up, drink my tea, read “DN” on the net, go to work, come home, have dinner and go over next day scenes

What are you doing this spring?-Shooting season 3 of True Blood.

I ran into an American exchange student a few months ago and he told me he had two wishes in his life. One was that he would find his dream woman and the other was that Eric the Viking King would get his own series. Would you consider doing a spin-off if it was offered to you? -I think Eric the Viking King would be a brilliant sitcom. Probably set in a high school environment. Kind of like an updated version of Fresh Prince.

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Evan Rachel Wood, Guy Pearce join HBO’s ‘Mildred Pierce’

By Rick Porter at zap2it

HBO’s miniseries adaptation of “Mildred Pierce” has added several actors, including “True Blood’s” Evan Rachel Wood, Guy Pearce and Oscar nominee Melissa Leo.

Wood, who next stars in the Robert Redford-directed “The Conspirator,” will play Mildred’s daughter Veda — which will require her to play younger, Winslet to play older, or both, as in real life Wood is only 12 years younger than Winslet.

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New V: Full of Information, Darwinian Mother Battles

By Graeme McMillan at i09

When new showrunner Scott Rosenbaum (Chuck, The Shield) took over running V, he had a problem: He didn’t know what the show was about, and he’d seen the first four episodes. Now, he promises that won’t be a problem.

Talking to the LA Times, Rosenbaum said,

I never was quite sure from the first four episodes what [the show] was really about, outside of just “Visitors have come.” What I told [the studio] about how I see it is that, at its spine, it’s really about two mothers and how far that they’re willing to go to protect their children. To me, Anna is the mother of all Vs. … One of the things that I wanted to make clear in my version of the show was that Anna is not evil at all: Anna is simply an animal. She’s a mother and she just wants to protect her children, her species, and she doesn’t have anything against humanity. She’s not evil. … We’re just something that stands in the way of her children’s future. In [that] way, Erica’s the same. … Even though it’s just Tyler, her son, I feel, metaphorically, she’s the mother of all children.

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I’m excited for the return of V. I’m dying to know why they’re here. I keep thinking it’s some sort of breeding thing, since all the women are picking Earth men that they want, but none of the male Vs are.

What do you think of the interview? Will you watch Mildred Pierce?

A Cylon becomes an alien resistance leader in V

Battlestar Galactica’s Michael Trucco is going from Cylon to lizard alien on ABC’s V, taking on the role of the mysterious resistance leader named John May, according to TVGuide.com.

“John May Lives” has been a battle cry of sorts against the Visitors in the series so far, but we’ve seen neither hide nor hair (nor alien reptilian skin) of May so far.

According to the four episodes we saw of V last fall, May is the founder and leader of the Fifth Column, the group of Vs who are against their peoples’ plans for Earth and the human race. Ryan (Morris Chestnut), a sleeper V who has been on Earth since before the Visitors arrived, once was involved in the resistance. Now he and Earthlings Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Father Jack (Joel Gretsch) are attempting to resurrect the Fifth Column.

Read more on SciFiWire.

Which “On The Bubble” TV Show Will You Campaign For?

We’re coming up on the most heartbreaking time of year for television lovers: Cancellation season. Rumors and speculation are swirling, and the deadpool is filling up. Which show will you go all-out and mail shit to network execs for?

Heroes
Caprica
Fringe
FlashForward
V
Chuck
Better Off Ted
Supernatural
Smallville

Vote here on io9.

I lost interest in V a while back. Are you still watching it? If so, are you enjoying the remake?

I’m not sure which series I would save. I like Smallville but it may have run it’s course. And Heroes has sucked for a while. I used to love Heroes.

Which show would you save and why?

by Liz Miller at FearNet: Is BBC America’s ‘Demons’ Worth Your Time?

Strip the mythology of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” of all the subtlety and vampire bits, add a healthy dose of some gender-reversed “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and you end up with “Demons,” produced by ITV in the UK and now running on BBC America.  You do not, unfortunately, end up with a show that’s particularly watchable.

The premise is familiar enough to anyone who’s ever seen a movie or TV show, ever — adolescent Luke Van Helsing (Christian Cooke) is a less-than-exceptional student whose life is changed forever when his never-before-seen godfather Rupert Galvin (Philip Glenister) pops by to inform him that his dead father was the most recent in a line of monster hunters descended from Abraham Van Helsing (not to be confused with Gabriel Van Helsing from the equally awful “Van Helsing”). Which means that Luke is now being tapped in to join the fight against “inhumans,” who hang out in underground bars and wear a lot of hooded sweatshirts, with some help from Rupert, the blind Mina Harker, and his best friend Ruby (Holly Grainger).  The inhumans don’t seem to have much of a plan, or really offer any threat to humanity beyond grossing them out occasionally, but Luke’s gotta fight them, so fight them he shall.

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via Shocktilyoudrop.com: SyFy’s American Being Human Series Taps Writers

We’ll keep you posted on the development of the series. In the meantime, check out the trailer to the original show which currently airs on BBC America.

It was announced back in October that Syfy was planning an American adaptation of Being Human, the British television series about a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf who shack up in an apartment and try to live their lives.

The Futon Critic got early word on the writer’s that have been tapped to script the re-imagining. Jeremy Carver (“Supernatural”) and Anna Fricke (“Privileged”) are scripting Being Human for SyFy.

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from Fred Topel at Sci Fi Wire: Why ABC’s not giving up on V and FlashForward. Yet.

Fans of ABC’s sci-fi series FlashForward and V have been concerned both with the network’s decision to delay both shows’ spring returns until March and with whether the network continues to have confidence in them, but ABC Entertainment Group President Stephen McPherson assured reporters on Tuesday that he has a clear plan for building both shows’ audiences, with two different strategies.

In a press conference at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., McPherson said he decided it was important to air FlashForward with no repeats, following the network’s strategy for Lost’s later seasons.

For V, he clarified that the plan was always to tell the story in chapters, but that the first chapter got shortened to only four episodes because of production issues.

“The original [1984-'85] V was two minis and then a series,” McPherson said in a group interview later. “The two minis did incredibly well, and the series did not do as well. Now there was a huge creative change between those two, but I think as long as you market them appropriately, I do think the audience is willing to come in for chapters.”

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via Lost Media: ‘Lost’ TCA Panel Reveals a Little More on Final Season

Today was ABC’s day at the Television Critics Association press tour, which meant one thing: Lost. Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof and most of the cast were there to answer questions, but if you’re looking for major details on season 6, you won’t find them here. Or anywhere.

We’re just three weeks away from the big premiere, and there’s still very little on what exactly will be happening in the final season. ABC still hasn’t provided anything: no episodic photos, no descriptive episode synopsis, no video clips, which leads me to conclude that season 6 is so insane that even the slightest glimpse will be a huge spoiler.

However, there were a few juicy nuggets to come out of the press tour panel.

-The final season will pick up right where season 5 ended. Since it ended with an exploding bomb, that could be the least helpful spoiler of all time.

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by Meredith Woerner at io9: Feeling Thirsty? True Blood Cranks Back Into Production

It’s finally coming back. Too long have we gone without the dirt sexin’, Yahtzee playing, vampire blood snorting adventures of True Blood. Well wait no more — it’s back into production and bringing us a cute little teaser video.

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by Nicole Cukingnan at Poptimal: The ABCs of What It Takes to be a Vampire Leading Man on TV

Tall, check. Mysterious, check. Broody, check. Tortured, check. What does it take to be a male leading vampire in a television series? The commonality between all of them seems to scream an anguished creature bent on using their supernatural powers for good as they struggle with their animalistic natures. I’ve seen a good number of these tortured souls trying to atone for their sins of feasting on human blood.

Who are some of television’s past and present vampire leading men? Probably the most well known would be Angel of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Created by Joss Whedon and played by David Boreanaz, the character fits all the categories. He’s tall, mysterious, broody, and tortured. He also opens his own detective agency to investigate supernatural cases. Whedon’s vampires are soulless creatures who are bloodthirsty and lacking of a moral compass. Angel becomes cursed and receives his soul back and thus regains his human emotions to feel remorse for his actions.

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I really wish the original Being Human would air in the states before they redo it. It looks great and I’m dieing to see it. And I’m glad we’re going to get the rest of V, they left it with a hell of a cliffhanger, and I want to know what happens!

Are you excited for the final season of Lost? Are you going to watch Demons on BBC America?

By Graeme McMillan at io9

Looking back at the fictional stories that defined the last decade, you might think of things like The Dark Knight, Battlestar Galactica, or failures like Bionic Woman and Speed Racer. Was this the decade we ran out of original ideas?

Okay, that’s obviously not completely fair; after all, this last ten years have also seen things like Lost and Twilight winning over new fans, not to mention the end of the Harry Potter book series. But there’s no denying that this has been a decade of recycling ideas: James Bond, Batman and Star Trek all got movie reboots (Trek also got a television one, if you count Enterprise), Star Wars gained new life as a TV show, Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica was reborn to much acclaim, unlike fellow television reboots Bionic Woman, Knight Rider and V.. The most successful “new” media franchises were Transformers and Spider-Man – based on ideas that are over two decades old (You could even argue that things like Lost and Twilight are simply mashing up old ideas into relatively new forms; they’re definitely standing on the shoulders of giants, at least). So what happened?

It’s easy to just say “Well, the geeks are in charge of media now,” even if it’s not necessarily untrue. But that doesn’t explain how they got there, and why they’re not making us fall in love with all manner of new things, instead of retreads of old flames (Does Fringe count as new, or just an updated X-Files?).

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It really does seem like Hollywood has run out of ideas sometimes. But we’ve gotten some great stuff out of it (Battlestar, Star Trek) along with the stinkers.And it seems like the remakes of old Sci Fi opened the door for the new stuff to be made (like District 9).

Do you think the remakes are a good idea, or do you think Hollywood is getting lazy?

All of your questions about V’s frustrating cliffhanger

Questions, questions, questions. You’d think we’d just finished watching the season finale of Lost or FlashForward instead of the fourth episode of ABC’s V, but last night’s “It’s Only the Beginning” gave us plenty to contemplate after one mother of a cliffhanger.

While it’s hard even to call it a midseason finale after a scant four episodes, we’re guessing that’s probably the best way to describe it, since you’ll have to wait more than three months for the final nine episodes to appear in March 2010.

Will Father Jack survive?

Kingtycho thinks he knows better. “Will he make it? How did the one visitor survive the explosion, and how did he find Father Jack?? (he better survive, he’s too much an asset to the show right now)”

Well, kingtycho, our best guess is that he’ll make it somehow, since he’s a star. But why the Visitor would escape the explosion and follow Father Jack (Joel Gretsch), and NOT CALL ANNA before he tries to kill him … we’re at a loss

What does Anna have planned for Tyler (Logan Huffman)?

Oh, this was a popular one. There’s just so many possibilities from sfmacy’s “Boy Toy!!!” to nagsmth’s belief that “she wants grandkids.”

According to adambodnar412, it’s “TO RULE THE GALAXY LIKE PALPATINE WANTED LUKE TO DO WITH DARTH VADER.”

bopper7373 added, “who cares, if we have to wait ’til March to find out…”

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Breaking Dawn video? Or how Twilight SHOULD end?

(From Scifiwire.com) Is this top-secret footage from the upcoming fourth movie based on Stephenie Meyers’ vampire-vs.-werewolf books?

Ah, you got us. It’s just a spoof from G4’s Attack of the Show. But at least it features the real Dr. Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli). Consider this turkey our Thanksgiving Day gift to you.

Sam Trammell Explains Why We Love Vampires

Sam Trammell, who portrays the lovable shapeshifter Sam Merlotte in Alan Ball’s hit HBO TV vampire series True Blood spoke with E!Online and tried to find the explanation behind the vampire craze. Also Sam reveals in the video that he has never seen Twilight but perhaps he should since it is so widely popular. A nice little interview with Sam who is always a pleasure to watch. Enjoy!

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A Casting Call With No Role

Grant Bowler has been cast for a role in True Blood’s season 3, but he’s not giving up any details about who he’ll play and either is anyone else so far.

The 41 year old New Zealander was unable to contain his excitement about the role and shared his news with Richard Clune of The Daily Telegraph.

“Mate, it’s HBO and it’s the King … it’s the chance to work for an Oscar-winner[series creator Allan Ball] and alongside an Oscar-winner [Anna Paquin],” he said.

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What do you think about today’s TV show news?

from Scott D. Pierce at Deseret News: 3 science fiction series are really struggling

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard,” goes the old saying.

But when it comes to television these days, science fiction is hard. Really hard.

ABC is struggling with both “V” and “FlashForward” — both in terms of the ratings and getting the shows made.

And Fox, which has canceled both “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and “Dollhouse” because of abysmal ratings, seems to be headed down the same road with “Fringe.”

The future of “V” is about as up in the air as one of those giant spaceships hovering over a major Earth city. The day that the show premiered, ABC announced that a new executive producer/showrunner had been hired to helm the series.

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from Sci fi Wire: FlashForward hits a series low and ABC halts production

The ratings for FlashForward fell yet again with last week’s episode, down 8 percent to a new low of only 8 million. And today, according to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC has stopped production on the freshman series for this week.

A rep for the network said that the six-day hiatus had always been built into the show’s schedule, adding, “They want to maintain the high quality of the show, and this gives the writers the opportunity to do so.”

Reason to worry? Perhaps.

But before you start panicking that you’ll never learn exactly how we get to the world of April 29, 2010, it’s too soon to know whether this will mean good news or bad news for viewers.

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By Kris De Leon at Buddy TV: Three Things to Look Forward to When ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Returns in January

The Vampire Diaries has left us high and dry with lots of cliffhangers and unsolved mysteries. While I don’t know who turned Logan Fell into a vampire or who caused Elena’s accident, I do have some teasers to look forward to when The Vampire Diaries returns in January, thanks to TV Guide Magazine.

Warning: Spoiler Ahead!!!

The Mystery Vampire
Though there is no word yet on this new mystery vamp on the loose, but his identity and ultimate agenda in Mystic Falls are the show’s next big focus, according to Plec. And as we unearth more details about the new vamp, we’ll also learn more about the 27 tombs and the possible aftermath if the tombs are opened.

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From Chris Curtis at Broadcast Now: RTS rewards Being Human werewolf

Millennium FX won best special effects for Being Human (Touchpaper Television for BBC3) despite working with “small budgets and tight deadlines, and with no post-production enhancement”. The judges said the werewolf transformations “were a tour de force”.

The judges praised Scott’s work which portrayed “in grim detail” the result of a vicious beating. “The make-up was so convincing, so livid and so credible that it immediately pulled you as a viewer into the heart of the story”, they said.

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From Ian Spelling at Sci FI Wire: Alice (and her commitment issues) go to Wonderland

Just as writer-director Nick Willing completely turned The Wizard of Oz on its ear with the Syfy’s Tin Man, he’s up to the same trick with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, reinventing it as an upcoming modern-day, off-the-wall four-hour Syfy movie entitled Alice. The biggest change? Alice isn’t a little girl anymore, but rather a 20-something with daddy issues and commitment problems.

All those tweaks were fine with Canadian actress Caterina Scorsone, whose credits include Goosebumps and 1-800-Missing. She beat out 300 women for the coveted role of Alice Hamilton and interacts with a wide variety of re-imagined characters that includes the Hatter (Andrew Lee Potts), the Queen of Hearts (Kathy Bates), Jack Chase (Philip Winchester), the King of Hearts (Colm Meaney), Caterpillar (Harry Dean Stanton), Dodo (Tim Curry) and the White Knight (Matt Frewer).

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I’ve honestly never seen Flash Forward, but I watch V and I really hope they pick it up next year. They can’t just leave us hanging like that! I’m excited about the Vampires Diaries returning too, I want to know how they walking in the sun and exactly who Alaric is.

What do you think of the Being Human werewolf? What are you most looking forward to when Vampire Diaries comes back? Do you watch Flash Forward or V?