True Blood is nominated for two 2012 Dorian Awards. What are the Dorian Awards you ask? They are the entertainment accolades handed out by the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association.
The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, formed in 2009, is comprised of more than 50 critics, entertainment journalists and pop culture critics who work for newspapers, magazines, websites and TV and radio outlets nationwide.
The two nominations are for the following categories:
It’s that time of year, and our friends at True-Blood.Org are presenting their holiday advent calendar once again. From December 1 until December 24 everybody can open one little door of the calendar each day. A lot of great auctions with signed True Blood Merchandise are linked via the calendar. This year, the proceeds for any of their auctions go to the Make A Wish Foundation.
Recently it has come to the attention of the True Blood fan community that an article has appeared in the New York Post, reporting how Robert Pattinson has dissed Twilight’s rivals:
Other vampires are available.
A human girl in love with a vampire has become one of the most common concepts in pop culture. But Robert Pattinson dismisses vampire TV shows such as “True Blood” and “The Vampire Diaries” as “Twilight” copycats.
“It’s like that Coke versus Pepsi thing, and how Coke just said ‘There’s a reason everyone compares themselves to us,’” he said, according to Web site Hollywood Life. “‘Twilight’ was the original and everybody’s trying to copy it. They’re all just trying to jump aboard the ‘Twilight’ train.”
Now it’s entirely possible that his words were taken out of context, or he was just kidding around, but the media has chosen to see this as a disparaging remark about True Blood. I’ve noticed that you Twilight fans are naturally very defensive of anything that Mr. Pattinson has to say, and I’ve also noticed that many of you do tend to share this attitude that True Blood and The Vampire Diaries are just poor relatives of Twilight. Here is a typical quote I have found from a Twilight fan responding to those who have criticised Robert for sounding ignorant in his remark:
“rob is so right about all these nonsense copycats.they were just trying to play a copy paste game.,,, ,,TWILIGHT’S CASTS are soooooo amazing that they made a blockbuster movie .chill and relax bcoz twilight was the one started these vampires obsessed(THE TRUTH!!!)”
Wow, such an articulate argument! However, there’s something I’d like to clear up – True Blood is based on a series of novels by Charlaine Harris, entitled The Southern Vampire Mysteries (give them a read, if you can cope with all the saucy stuff without your brains exploding). The first of these was published in 2001. Twilight, as I’m sure you’re well aware, was published in 2005. Likewise the first Vampire Diaries novel was published in 1991. True Blood actually first aired in September 2008, several months before the release of Twilight the movie. So just in case you are among the Twihards accusing these shows of bandwagon-jumping, it’s important to note that both pre-dated Twilight.
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HBO has a new commercial for True Blood DVDs just in time for the holidays. Seasons 1, 2, and 3 are currently available on DVD, Blu-Ray and on Digital Download. Enjoy!
So yesterday I was at my local book store for the new issue of People with the Ryan Kwanten centerfold. I like to peruse the entire magazine section to see if I can find any of the True Blood cast in other magazines.
So I’m looking, and there he was, Alexander Skarsgård staring at me with sexy blue/green eyes of his on the cover of TV Guide Magazine Crosswords! It is the “Southern Hospitality” issue (dated Winter 2012) and it features crossword puzzles and some Sudoku puzzles. The book is not all about True Blood, in fact, I only saw 3 puzzles that had True Blood questions in them, and have scanned them below.
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True Blood is nominated for two 2012 Dorian Awards. What are the Dorian Awards you ask? They are the entertainment accolades handed out by the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association.
