Only on HBO, and I think it is late Sept.

Just wait for the DVDs, or us alternative methods.

Patience is a virtue, after all... And, good things come to those who wait.

Or know where to find stuff online.

-RC =^[.]~=

http://io9.com/5018125/true-blood-uncovers...ce-in-louisiana

Huh. Definitely a different take on the mythology, and has long legs, given a chance. Reminds me a bit of Alien Nation.

It'll be cancelled after one season.

-RC =-[.]-=

It is based on a series of books, so it remains to see if it will be like Dexter of like Dresden Files in terms of paying off or losing the fans of the novels.

Book series, huh? What's the author's name? I'll need to tell the missus about it.

-RC =^[.]^=

The series is by Charlaine Harris...it's her Sookie Stackhouse "dead" series. There are currently 8 of them I think, and while there are people who enjoy them, the one time I tried to read one of them I personally didn't care for it. However Ms. Rhio may feel differently

Thanks for the link Darth

Oh, Rhio's already got those. She'll probably want HBO if I tell her about it.

-RC ='[.]'=

How is the missus? Did you pass along that book suggestion to her? Hug her for me, and the hug she gives you in return pretend that it's from me as well please? Thanks Ray

Turns out that she's long since read those books!

I'll pass along the hug, though, gladly, and get one back. Mind you, she's a great hugger, the missus is! You'll have a lot to live up to!

-RC =^[.]~=

I meant the book suggestion in my sig, lol. I should have specified. A Rush of Wings is out, and In The Blood is due either December or Janury. Rush is an awesome book imho. Thanks for the hug passing!

I have duly provided the info to Rhio, who is always grateful for new books in the genre to read!

Many thanks!

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

No thanks necessary there Mankitty, it's enough I have good folk like you two to share things with :smile

Aww... That's mighty shiny, Ms. Bug! Rhio's plannin' on joining us here on GBS, once she has her desktop back up and running. She's looking forward to having someone with whom to discuss the Paranormal Romance book series she's been reading. Probably need a spoilery thread for that.

Oh, and, here's a vampire movie we all missed:



Bambi II:
"Oh Yes... There Will Be Blood."

-RC =^[.]~=

I'll look forward to talking with Ms. Rhio! I had the chance to exchange a few posts with her at...skiffy <hack, spit>, And she seemed to be a super sweet person.

Bambi a vampire? LOL...if you knew how prolific the deer were here and how we struggle just to keep 'em out of our garden and away from my flowers then you'd understand my thinking they were more of a virulent plague than vamipres...

Here's a stray post I found lying around on the Lifetime Blood Ties message board:

"Announcing the Blood Ties Digital Billboard Poll:

The fans are undertaking yet another venture, a digital billboard. The goal of the billboard is to attract attention and publicity for the actors and Blood Ties, the show. We are trying to ascertain if there is enough interest and support to go forward with this venture. If you are interested in showing your support please go to:

http://snappoll.com/poll/278577.php VOTE! to show your support.

The poll will remain up for seven days. We will then determine if this is a viable venture. More details concerning the billboard to follow.

If you have any questions/concerns please e-mail all inquiries to: btbillboard@yahoo.com

Blood Ties Fans Bite Back!

The Billboard Committee"

Might be worth a look-see.

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=

Blood Ties podcasts!

"Save Blood Ties Collaborative
Bite Back - The Blood Ties podcast Website Launch

Posted: 01 Jul 2008 03:19 PM CDT

We have launched the website for “Bite Back - The Blood Ties podcast”.

You can find it at http://www.bloodtiespodcast.org.

We are already hard at work on our first episode and it should be available very soon.

To keep up on the podcast you can monitor that website and you can also sign-up for the email updates as well.

We have a discussion forum available where folks can discuss the podcast episodes and other general Blood Ties topics as well. You can find the forums here."

-RC =^[.]^=

"Save Blood Ties Collaborative
Episode #1 of Bite Back - The Blood Ties Podcast Is Now Available

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 03:04 PM CDT

The entire podcast crew is very proud to announce that episode #1 of Bite Back - the Blood Ties podcast is now available for your listening pleasure!

For those who are not familiar with podcasts here are a couple of helpful tips…

* A podcast is basically a prerecorded audio program much like a radio talk show
* most podcasts, including ours, are free of charge
* technical skills are not required to listen
* you do not have to have an iPod to listen

Simply go to our website and you can click on the Play button to begin listening right away!

www.BloodTiesPodcast.org

=^[.]^=

RAY!!!
Thanks for the link.

I'm dial up these days, so, forgive my absence. I miss all my friends here... even a nemesis or two,
but the load time is fascinatin'-- some might say we are being punished for not shellin out the high speed or cable cost.

I can download the podcast... then listen later.
Dial up means it will take forever... all night-like-type.


Maybe by October...

Hey-- any word on Moonlight??? I watch CBS... but I refuse to sit through game shows or reality. So... It sounded hopeful... then nuthin'.

Moonlight is only doing well on TV Vote, where it just entered the Top 40 Poll, today, with daily vote totals which dwarf Firefly's!

But, voting Fan Power has not brought it back.

='[.]'=

Here's a vampire fan video, Tv Vamps #1 Lady Loves



The creator, Swampgirly, does some nice stuff! The sound quality on this one is a little off (I suspect it's due to the source), but it has a nice theme.

=^[.]^=

Hi, all! I have read the posts about Charlaine Harris Sookie books and the upcoming HBO series. While I did read all of the earlier books, the series (both books/HBO) aren't big on my list - my apologies to all Sookie fans everywhere. Don't mean to step on toes, but there are other series that I will read in preference. The video here is for one of my favorite series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, the Dark Hunters. Here is her website. I have read her Dream Hunters series as well. I just finished Acheron today and loved it! Ash is my favorite character in the series and it was great to read his story. Sherrilyn's site gives the correct reading order for her books if you are interested and trust me, read them in order because there is continuity here! Well, enough said for one post. Its real good to be here! Thanks so much to GBS for welcoming us Skiffy refugees! Oh, and yeah, it's really RhioTre, the real one! I am not a figment of Raycheetah's imagination! Hugs to all my old buds! Hope to make some new friends here soon. Talk more later!
Take Care! Bye!
RT

Hi, TBug! I am missing Moonlight something terrible myself. I have found some solace in reading fan fiction. I have been reading Moonjat54's work since she began posting and she really has a handle on the characters. She is also a fan missing the "Light"! Hope you enjoy her work as much as I do. Check out the rest of the site if you care to. The quality is catch-as-catch-can considering it is amateur writers, but there are some true gems to be found. Oh, and as an aside, I WILL NOT be watching the Ex-List (the show CBS decided to green light instead of Moonlight Season 2)! More later! Take Care!
Bye!
RT =^-^=

RhioTre-- please pardon the break in... I cannot find anything worth watching in Ex list, either. What a complete waste of energy. And what a way to blow my Friday nights. Soooo I guess I'll be reading more and watching less.

so be it.
Reading is good.
Thanks for the fanfic link... I look forward to enjoying the stories.

Hi Herbsinger! No problem on the break in - we are all friends! I am so glad to meet someone who has the same opinion on Ex List. What were they thinking? A waste of time, energy and money...I will likely watch Ghost Whisper and Numbers on Friday, but I will be honest the writer's strike reminded me that I don't HAVE to watch television. I love to read, but I also have some awesome series on DVD and movies that I didn't find time to watch because of network tv.

Although I must confess that I am intrigued by two new shows - The Eleventh Hour with Rufus Sewell and the Mentalist with Simon Baker.

I hope you enjoy MoonJat54's stories. She's become a good friend through reviewing and email chats. Cajun Moon Rising is her newest.

Well, I really need to go now, but please take care - it is SO good to hear from you again!
RT =^-^=

I do look forward to Eleventh Hour... if only because of it's use of my favorite guerilla marketer,
11th Hour.
I have her 'messenger bag' and magnets.

If this comes out... this is my goat kitty, Precious... named for precious pup cartoons. She really
does bleat like a goat... and the raspy voice of Precious Pup, on top of it. Right now, there are 20
kitties at the homestead. I should start gettin' 'em fixed next week ( kits are finally 12wks.)

Save Blood Ties Collaborative


Episode #1.5 of Bite Back - The Blood Ties Podcast Is Now Available

Posted: 10 Aug 2008 05:32 PM CDT

For those who are not familiar with podcasts here are a couple of helpful tips…

* A podcast is basically a prerecorded audio program much like a radio talk show
* most podcasts, including ours, are free of charge
* technical skills are not required to listen
* you do not have to have an iPod to listen

Simply go to our website and you can click on the Play button to begin listening right away!

http://bloodtiespodcast.org/

=^[.]^=

True Blood goodies.

Thanks for posting those, DM!

=^[.]^=

The Ex-List would sound awful even if it hadn't replace Moonlight-the fact that it did just makes it ten times worse....


Best wishes,

Scott

Moonlight isn't coming back?????

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Um, no... *Wonders where it is, exactly, that Russant's been hiding?*

=-[.]-=

facebook, internet crack.

*Blanches at the name of the unholy!*

=@[.]@=

WHICH CINEMATIC VAMPIRE WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET BITTEN BY?
Found at: http://ifmagazine. com/index. asp (scroll down on the left).
Current standings at:

Bela Legosi in DRACULA 7%
Christopher Lee in DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS 0%
Frank Langella in DRACULA 1%
David Bowie in THE HUNGER 1%
Chris Sarandon in FRIGHT NIGHT 0%
Jenny Wright in NEAR DARK 3%
David Boreanaz ain ANGEL 12%
Alex O'Laughlin in MOONLIGHT 6%
Stephen Moyer in TRUE BLOOD 0%
Robert Pattinson in TWILIGHT 68%

What, no Kyle Schmid as Henry Fitzroy in Blood Ties? The missus is up in arms about that omission!

=^[.]~=

I've never been a big fan of vampires, never been that scary to me but I watched True Blood and IMO a bit rubbish.

I find it entertaining.

While there's certainly room for improvement,I think True Blood is a pretty decent show so far. Not like HBO's last genre show John Fron Cincinnati-now that was awful.....


Best wishes,

Scott

Actually,I find quite a few omissions in that list. If we're going old school enough for lugosi and Lee,where's Barnabas Collins? And where's Spike?
And how about some more female vampires? Nothing against Jenny Wright but I'd like a few more choices. If prose like Twilight is allowed,where's Vampirella? Or to go back to movies, how about the woman who played Mina in Coppola's Dracula (who was very good-I'm just momentarily forgetting her name....). Or Jeanette from Forever Knight (my personal pick...). And you can't forget Darla and Dru....


Best wishes,

Scott

New Blood Ties Podcast:

"Save Blood Ties Collaborative

Episode #2 of Bite Back - The Blood Ties Podcast Is Now Available

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 04:41 PM CDT

Episode #1 of Bite Back - the Blood Ties podcast is now available for your listening pleasure!

For those who are not familiar with podcasts here are a couple of helpful tips…

* A podcast is basically a prerecorded audio program much like a radio talk show
* most podcasts, including ours, are free of charge
* technical skills are not required to listen
* you do not have to have an iPod to listen

Simply go to our website and you can click on the Play button to begin listening right away!

BloodTiesPodcast.org
Posted in Blood Ties podcast"

=^[.]^=

Vampire Tourism: Visitors flock to timber town for Twilight's magic

By WHITNEY MALKIN
Associated Press Writer

FORKS, Wash. -- Pounding rain and heavy mist are constant in this
timber town where logging's decline left a graveyard of rusting
timber mills and unemployment. Businesses shut down. Parts of the
local high school were condemned. Families started to drift away.
Until an unlikely cast of vampires breathed new life into the town.
"I fell in love with it," says 18-year-old Samantha Cogar, who
dragged her grandparents on a 2,500 mile roadtrip to Forks from
Louisville, Ky., earlier this summer. "I can't wait to go back."
Cogar is one of thousands of visitors who have flocked to Forks in
response to "Twilight," the hottest series to hit shelves since
"Harry Potter." Set in Forks, on the gritty edge of the Olympic
Mountain Range, the books have captured the hearts of readers around
the world.

In a town framed by towering Douglas fir, hemlock and spruce and the
occasional western red cedar, where rough, blue collar edges are
tangible, the unexpected attention seems to be a second chance for
the economy. Inspired by a world of make-believe, "Twilight" fans are
bringing the town back to life.

Four years ago, Author Stephenie Meyer introduced the world to Bella
Swan, a 17-year-old who moves to Forks and is torn between the love
of classmate Edward Cullen and best friend Jacob Black. But before
long, she realizes something isn't right: Edward is a vampire and
Jacob, a werewolf.

Readers were hooked, and three more "Twilight" books followed.
"Breaking Dawn," the fourth and final book of her "Twilight" series,
came out in July and has remained at the top of best seller lists
ever since. Teens throughout the country celebrated the release of
the book by dressing up as characters from the series for midnight
parties at bookstores — much the way "Harry Potter" books are launched.
As the pages kept coming, the series' cultlike following increased.
Before long, fans started showing up in Forks, looking to see if
magic would spark when imagination collided with reality. What they
found was a two-stoplight town where more than a foot of rain falls
each month. A place where success is measured in sweat and four-wheel
drive.

But Forks was quick to embrace the frenzied fans.
Forks' "Twilight"-inspired turn has been nothing short of magical,
Marcia Bingham, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, says.
"We've probably had more than 100 people a day," says Bingham, who
has eagerly watched as van after van of giddy readers — mostly female
— pull up in front of the town's visitors center.

For many fans, the line where reality ends and imagination begins is
starting to blur, says Michael Gurling, who caught inspiration from
the tourism boom and started his own Twilight Tours.
After enlisting a few locals, he asked for help in picking out houses
that could serve as stand-ins for the book's famous Forks' stops:
Bella and Edward's houses, a field where vampires play baseball.
Other locations, such as the police station, where Bella's father
works, and the hospital, where Edward's father is a doctor, play
their own parts. They chipped in, providing cruisers near which fans
may take pictures and reserving a spot for "Dr. Cullen" in the
parking lot.

"The most popular spot is probably the beach, in LaPush, where Bella
finds out the truth about Edward," says Gurling.
On a recent Friday, Gurling's van headed out of the visitor's center
parking lot — packed, as it is most every weekend, with teenage
girls. Outside the stand-in for Edward's house, a sign on the door
says "Cullens" are volunteering a blood drive.

"It's not quite how I thought it would be," says Yena Hu, a
University of Washington sophomore who made the four-hour trek from
Seattle to visit. "They're always talking about all the windows — and
in the book, the house is on the water."

But it's surprising how much Meyer did get right, considering she'd
never been to Forks when she wrote the first book. A quick Internet
search revealed Forks was one of the rainiest places in the world,
and from her home in Arizona, the stay-at-home mom began rewriting
history.

While locals are accepting of their newfound fame, they're all too
aware of the mania that is continuing to grow.
Almost everyone has a "Twilight" story: the teen who dropped his
library card, only to discover Twilighters had found it and kept it;
the cheerleader who has out-of-town mothers stop her on the street
offering cash for her uniform; the Quileute native, who heads to
LaPush to chop wood and sees giddy teenagers snatching up driftwood
as souvenirs.

Jessica Hartman, an 18-year-old who works at the town's pharmacy says
"Twilight" has more than doubled profits for the corner store.
Flipping through a guest book for Twilighters, the recent Forks High
School grad smiles as she touches signatures from around the globe —
Europe, Asia, South America. They're all here, recorded in the
tattered pages that spell out the town's fame.

Spurred by the boost in tourism and influx of money, are businesses
eagerly trying to cash in on the craze.
Wander down the town's main drag and you'll see "We Love Edward and
Bella" signs in store windows and a Forks' Speedway sign welcoming
"Vampires and Racers."

Restaurants have started offering Twilight-themed options: Subway's
"Twilight Special" which oozes marinara and the ever popular Bella
Burger at local hangout Sully's Drive-in, which comes with special
sauce and pineapple.

Stacks of Twilight T-shirts sit behind almost every counter in town.
At Sully's, 32-year-old Eleanor Currit waves a pair of plastic
vampire teeth in the air — a standard side for any customer who
orders the Bella burger.
"When I go back to my book club, I'm definitely going to have
bragging rights," she says. "The women in my group are honestly crazy
about these books."

Currit, a stay-at-home- mom with a master's degree in English, says
being in Forks is like opening a page of the book and jumping in.
"This town just has a pretty primal way about it," she said. "It's
really a mysterious beauty."

While the fourth and final "Twilight" book was released earlier this
summer, Gurling, a former National Park Guide, says he thinks the
release of the "Twilight" movie, set for early November, will only
generate more attention for Forks.

And while some long for quieter days, others say "Twilight" might
have been what this town needed.

"It seems like we're Twilighting all the time," says Charlene Cross,
the town's florist. "But at the end of the day, it makes you feel
like we're part of something bigger — and I think that makes it worth
it."

------
On the Net:
http://www.twilightmoms.com/
http://www.forkswa.com/HomeofTwilighttheBook.html
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/

=^[.]^=

You know,it's a shame Sunnydale's a crater now. I could just see Mayor Wilkins forgetting all about world conquest and trying to attract tourists instead lol.......


Best wishes,

Scott

Well, there's http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=8091"" target="_blank">news on Johnny Depp's reported Dark Shadows movie project, but it's not particularly happy news:

"Update: A Stake Driven Through Depp's Dark Shadows
Source:Entertainment Weekly,L.A. Times
October 16, 2008

The return of Barnabas Collins will have to wait another day. Here's an update from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly concerning Johnny Depp's upcoming slate:

Two long discussed Depp projects appear kaput for now: Shantaram, based on a novel about a heroin addict's adventures in India, and the movie version of the 60's vampire soap Dark Shadows, a childhood favorite of the actor's.

Depp became involved in Dark Shadows in 2007 when his production outfit Infinitim-Nihil teamed with Warner Bros. to do an update. Over the summer it was reported writer John August was writing the script.

Update: Burton floats a nugget of hope towards the L.A. Times. When asked about his possible future with Dark Shadows, the director says, "Oh I don't know. Take one at time, you know? It's something I'm interested in of course. Definitely."

I wouldn't call that putting a stake in the Dark Shadows movie project, but it's a setback, and many Dark Shadows fans are deeply disappointed at this news. Johnny is clearly still interested, but I suspect that he is having to reprioritize his projects, in the last ripples of the Writers' strike which shut down Hollywood last year.

='[.]'=

Agreed. I have DLed a few episodes, and will probably finish the season, but it really isn't what I was hoping it would be.

I kind of feel dirty after I finish an episode.

Oh. Wasn't that what the writers were going for?

=^[.]~=

Exactly why I love watching the show, LOL Admittedly I tried to read Charlaine Harris when she first got published and found the first book so meh, that I put it down after the first three chapters or so...the series is much better than the books IMHO which is quite ironic since it's usually the other way round

Watching the first episode was enough for me, which for me is strange as I like to give a series at least a couple of episodes before I make a decision about whether to continue watching it.

After watching the pilot episode I wanted the time wasted watching it back.

True Blood is starting to grow on me....

The acting is still pretty bad, but it's starting to get interesting. :)

So... from where do you download? I went to the HBO site... Am I lookin in the right spot?

I just DLed the torrent from thepiratebay.