Do you think it'll go the distance of Deadwood (3 Seasons), Six Feet Under (5 Seasons), or HBO's more long-running shows like Oz, Sopranos, Entourage, or Curb your Enthusiasm (6 seasons or more)?
True Blood's TV Life Span: How Many Seasons?
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It will be on as long as it makes more money for HBO than it costs HBO to produce.
well, i've read the books and the show is pretty true to them. i think it will stay on until it starts introducing the weirder elements (fairies, witches, etc.) in later books. i think when that stuff starts popping up the people that love it for being a vampire show will abandon ship and the money in it will go with them.
Are the books a fairly straight up adaption or are there considerable liberties already being taken? I understand Lafayette was suppossed to die already but his character is so popular the show producers went another way with him and kept him alive.
As a vampire fan I also realize the they exist in a world of supernatural. The forthcoming werewolves always make sense. Witches also apply, just see Buffy the Vampire Slayer(Willow) for how that played out well with audiences.
Fairies starts getting more into fantasy than supernatural but hey maybe that will be part of what hey ignore...like Lafayette's fate.
I'm calling 6 seasons.
As a vampire fan I also realize the they exist in a world of supernatural. The forthcoming werewolves always make sense. Witches also apply, just see Buffy the Vampire Slayer(Willow) for how that played out well with audiences.
Fairies starts getting more into fantasy than supernatural but hey maybe that will be part of what hey ignore...like Lafayette's fate.
I'm calling 6 seasons.
the first season was pretty accurate except in the book the murderer also had sex with his sister's body after he killed her (i guess there are some things even HBO balks at 
. i stopped following the show after season 2 because i had read the books by then. i don't really see how they can leave out the fairy stuff because it's pretty integral to the plot later on, but we'll see.
. i stopped following the show after season 2 because i had read the books by then. i don't really see how they can leave out the fairy stuff because it's pretty integral to the plot later on, but we'll see.
My wife & I have read all the books; she's also seen the series but I haven't. According to her, the main storyline has stayed pretty intact so far, but with some of the changes the TV producers have introduced (the new vamp Bill "sired", for example), the TV storyline will be forced to diverge farther & farther from the books the longer it continues.
These are not "Tinkerbell"-type fairies. They are much closer to the old European folklore, where the fairy-folk had their own realms and agendas separate from humans, and were definitely NOT to be crossed.
I think this can run until Anna Paquin demands more money than they can afford.
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