Alan Ball at Comic-Con (PC: EW)
The LA Times is reporting that True Blood creator Alan Ball will executive produce a new series called “Banshee” on HBO’s sister network Cinemax.
The series will be set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish Country (the titular Banshee), according to a person who was briefed on the project, and feature an enigmatic ex-con who’s also an expert in martial arts. Darkly comic in tone, the show will have the ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff, imposing his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests. Unlike the sagas of Sookie Stackhouse, there will be no supernatural element to the series.
“Banshee” is not expected to affect Ball’s schedule on True Blood. Ball recently told the Television Critics Assn. that he’s close to a deal for a fifth season of True Blood.
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