I’d heard for a long time that Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series was getting made into an HBO series. September it shall debut in a series created by the Six Feet Under guy and starring Anna Paquin. Pretty cool. Their marketing however, has cracked me up. They’ve got two sites, one advertising TruBlood, the Japanese synthetic blood product that (in the series) is released on the market and allows the vampires to come out of hiding – as they now have an palatable alternative to manslaughter. The other is BloodCopy, chronicling the unfolding drama of vampires trying to integrate with humans. Both websites take themselves absolutely seriously, and it’s pretty much a riot.

The concern I have is that imdb makes no mention of Eric Northman, the jerky vampire with a thing for Sookie who is probably my favorite character in the series, and no mention of *gasp* Bubba. How can you have the Southern Vampires without Elv- whoops, I mean, Bubba.