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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A larger-than-life snowglobe filled with murderous little girls, a "Battlestar Galactica" spaceship and comic-book legend Stan Lee flying overhead on a bouquet of giant balloons — just a few signs that Spike TV's "Scream 2009" is different from other awards shows.

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Michael Ausiello, "Entertainment Weekly's" TV writer, is the "outbreak monkey" of his field. There is a new virus that is affecting the field of media journalism, and that plague is celebrity. The new neo-celebrity status of these journalists has a patient zero - the person we see as the beginning of it all - and that is Ausiello himself.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/09/21/tv_report_card_the_good_the_bad_aamp_the Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:30:36 EST Entertainment News 138156@http://www.starpulse.com/news Since CNN has such a blast creating a report card to track the Presidency, we decided to have some fun with television. Which networks come out strong and which ones need to do better homework?

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/09/04/what_s_with_the_vampire_obsession_true_b Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:12:30 EST Entertainment News 136469@http://www.starpulse.com/news The woman behind smash-hit TV series True Blood insists the world is obsessed with vampires because they never die, age or feel frail.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/08/31/true_blood_recap_evan_rachel_wood_disapp Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:44:01 EST Entertainment News 135935@http://www.starpulse.com/news "True Blood" is a pretty remarkable show in that the second season eclipsed the first one in terms of writing and excellent acting, which was a big deal

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/07/29/true_blood_makes_an_impression_at_comic_ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:53:40 EST Entertainment News 132133@http://www.starpulse.com/news When "True Blood" first premiered on HBO last year, it already had quite an eager and excited audience. Perhaps it was the viral ads that HBO kept running,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/07/16/true_blood_star_kristin_bauer_talks_whal Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:14:46 EST Entertainment News 130332@http://www.starpulse.com/news If you don't know her as vampire Pam from HBO's "True Blood," you may recognize Kristin Bauer from "Dark Angel", "JAG" or from the classic "Seinfeld" episode where she played Jerry's "Man Hands" girlfriend, Gillian.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/06/30/everything_geeky_onscreen_inaccuracy_nec Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:34:26 EST Entertainment News 128328@http://www.starpulse.com/news I was recently flipping through channels on a quiet Sunday evening when the new show "Merlin" caught my eye. It was originally a British TV drama that did fairly well

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/06/16/true_blood_gives_hbo_best_ratings_in_two Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:11:17 EST Entertainment News 126772@http://www.starpulse.com/news True Blood's second season premiere on Sunday saw excellent ratings. According to HBO, 3.7 million viewers tuned in, up some 157 percent over the season 1

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/06/12/qaamp_a_true_blood_creator_alan_ball_tal Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:25:44 EST Entertainment News 126351@http://www.starpulse.com/news The second season of HBO's True Blood promises to be sexier, gorier, funnier and deeper than the first season, according to creator Alan Ball. He's absolutely right.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/02/26/carrie_preston_dishes_about_true_blood_g Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:20:09 EST Entertainment News 111609@http://www.starpulse.com/news "True Blood" doesn't return until sometime this summer but natural blonde Carrie Preston, who plays spunky redheaded waitress Arlene, revealed some tidbits about season two (more creatures - yeah!)

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/18/hbo_renews_true_blood_for_second_season Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:24:36 EST Entertainment News 98454@http://www.starpulse.com/news HBO has renewed the new drama series True Blood for a second season. Created by Alan Ball, the series will begin production of new episodes early next year in Los Angeles,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/10/director_defends_controversial_tampon_sc Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:56 EST Entertainment News 97727@http://www.starpulse.com/news Moviemaker Alan Ball has defended his decision to show a bloody tampon in his new film Towelhead, insisting it was important to detail his teenage lead character's first period on camera.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/02/true_blood_creator_alan_ball_discusses_v Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:30:17 EST Entertainment News 96783@http://www.starpulse.com/news Vampires are the "it" supernatural species of the moment. When the CBS series "Moonlight" was canceled earlier this year, fans were devastated.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/28/tv_reviews_raising_the_bar_sons_of_anarc Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:53:23 EST Entertainment News 96791@http://www.starpulse.com/news NEW YORK (AP) - The fall season is afoot, with these three shows among the first to hit the air: TNT's courtroom drama "Raising the Bar"; FX's series about an outlaw motorcycle

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/21/carrie_preston_discusses_her_true_blood_ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:26:12 EST Entertainment News 95930@http://www.starpulse.com/news Carrie Preston is not only an actor, she has her own production company. So although she is featured in the new HBO series "True Blood" and has a cameo in

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/11/anna_paquin_talks_about_new_hbo_series_t Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:31:46 EST Entertainment News 95313@http://www.starpulse.com/news Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, the new HBO series True Blood kicks off its 12-episode season Sunday, Sept. 7 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/07/vampire_series_true_blood_debuts_sept_7_ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:43:47 EST Entertainment News 92077@http://www.starpulse.com/news In the not-too-distant future, vampires have come out of the coffin. Thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood, vampires no longer need humans

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/14/is_hbo_losing_its_edge_ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:57:42 EST Entertainment News 84208@http://www.starpulse.com/news Remember the slogan, "It's not TV, It's HBO?" Well, up until a couple months ago this marketing ploy actually rang true. HBO has long been the trendsetter of original series that break all boundaries and push audiences' perception of what television is and should be.

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