Channel 4 aquire rights to True Blood

[Bob The Skutter]

From Digital Spy

Channel 4 has acquired the UK terrestrial rights to True Blood and Generation Kill from HBO.
True Blood - from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball - is a drama about vampires who rely on synthetic blood rather than humans to satisfy their urges.
Generation Kill is a seven-part drama miniseries documenting the first 40 days of the Iraq war through the eyes of a group of young marines. The show is currently airing on FX.
"We are thrilled to bring more fresh, imaginative and bold US drama to Channel 4 audiences," said Gill Hay, C4's head of acquisitions. "True Blood and Generation Kill are examples of HBO programming at its thought-provoking and challenging best."
Both series will air on Channel 4 later in 2009.

How did True Blood turn out? I saw the first episode or two and it kinda seemed a bit try hard, I might check it out again when it airs over here though.

 

[Brikar99]

Honestly I thought it was dull as dirt. It had maybe one or two interesting characters, the main male lead gives one of the worst performances ever, and there was some surprisingly low production value. I tried to let it grow on me, but each subsequent episode just felt like more and more of a huge waste of time and money.

 

[wamdue]

^ I had heard good things about it, by the hype seems to have died down now