True Blood

Man, is it that time of the year already? Thankfully we have another few months to heal from the lameness that was Season Four of HBO's vampire opus "True Blood." Can Season Five get things back on track? We can only hope.

More casting news is coming in for HBO's "True Blood" Season 5, this time in the fairy category, as newcomer Giles Matthey has landed the multi-episode role of Claude, a hot and mysterious British fairy.

If you're going to cast a new vampire on the HBO series "True Blood", why not pick a guy who's played the ancient Volturi vamp Marcus in three of the Twilight movies - New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and the upcoming Part 2 - as well as a creepy Swede in "Hell on Wheels" and a demon in an arc on the CW’s "Supernatural"? Makes sense to us.

With a tagline of "If your holidays didn't suck, then your New Year will,", HBO is running an encore presentation of "True Blood" Season 4 starting Thursday, December 29th, through Saturday, December 31st. As you might have guessed, they put together a promo video for the event. Check it out!

Nominees were announced today, December 14th, for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, and despite a few oversights that we're pretty surprised by (for instance, where the hell is Claire Danes from "Homeland"?), we were pretty pleased to see a few horror entries, especially in the television categories. Read on for the 411 regarding the genre-related nominees.

A couple of weeks ago we reported that the always good Chris Meloni was in talks to join the hit HBO vampire series "True Blood", and lo and behold the official word has finally come. Hopefully his addition will be something more than just another character with another plotline to have to keep up with.

It isn't often that we mention the Grammys here at Dread Central, but a few genre favorites have landed nominations for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented February 12, 2012, on CBS, and we just wanted to share the news.

Ever since "Oz" went off the air, we've been missing seeing actor Chris Meloni. Sure, he was in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for years and years, but something was lacking ... nudity! No one does it better than Meloni! Which is why this latest news that he's being courted for a role in "True Blood" has us so excited.

Actor Ryan Kwanten may be best known around these parts as Jason Stackhouse from HBO's hit series "True Blood", but he's been a favorite of this writer from his work in James Wan's criminally overlooked Dead Silence.

And the "True Blood" werewolf pack has grown by another two members as both Kelly Overton (The Ring Two) and Louis Herthum (The Last Exorcism) have landed major recurring roles on HBO's popular series. Overton will appear in six episodes while Herthum is confirmed for five with both having series regular options for the next season.

We're still several months away from the summer, 2012 return of "True Blood" on HBO, and even though we're pretty sure we're not alone in thinking a major problem with the show lately has been its bloated cast, news of new guest stars/recurring characters for Season 5 has been coming in fast and furious. The latest? Italian Italian actress Valentina Cervi.

All right, fangbangers, it's time to put your money where your mouths are. Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin, the "True Blood" stars who play vampire Bill Compton and telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, are auctioning off a set of autographed "True Blood" Season Two posters and a DVD set for charity, and just a few days remain for you to take part!

You may not know the name, but we're pretty you'll recognize the face. Dale Dickey, winner of the 2011 Independent Spirit Award - Best Supporting Female for Winter's Bone, has joined the cast of HBO's "True Blood" as the mother of dearly departed werewolf packmaster Marcus Bozeman (played by Dan Buran).

2011 is starting to wind down, which means it's time for all the various awards shows to begin rearing their heads. First up are the People's Choice Awards, which for some reason ditched the Favorite Horror Movie category they instituted last year, but we won't hold that against them too much since "The Walking Dead" made the cut for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show.