True Blood’s age target is much older than Twilight, teenagers shouldn’t even be watching the show.

Eric, are u comparing Charlaine Harris’s “dead until dark” to Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight” ? or am misunderstanding your post?

I’m not trying to rip you,i am just genuinely trying to get a better understanding of what you said.

Thanks

Those lines are what got him the role of Deadpool in the latest Wolverine movie, I think.

My favorite was:

Blade: How do you finance this operation?
Hannibal: I date a lot of older men.

I had read a couple vampire novels from writer Mick Farren in the last few years that looked exactly like the Underworld movies when they came out. I even thought Underworld looked like a ripoff since it had the exact same concept (modern day vampires living in “covens”, with a leader named Victor going up against various enemies).

These are the books. You even see the last one was named “Underland”, LOL!

Farren, Mick.

—. The Time of Feasting . New York: Tor, 1998.
Abstract: Modern day vampires have learned to survive on nourishment from blood banks, but every seven years or so their predator essence flairs out of control.

—. Darklost . Tor, 2001.
Abstract: Victor Renquist and his small group of Nosferatu leave New York and reestablish their Colony in Los Angeles. There they are forced to face the awsome, ancient evil known as Cthulhu.

—. More Than Mortal . Forge, 2002.
Abstract: From the publisher: Victor Renquist, centuries old nosferatu leader, is called to England. Some archeologists are excavating a burial mound but what they will uncover is no Saxon warrior but the being once known as Merlin. And he’s not the kindly old duffer of The Sword and the Stone.

—. Underland . Tor, 2002.
Abstract: The fourth novel featuring master vampire Victor Renquist.

Blog posts are easy (not as easy as sarcastic comments on blog posts, but still…), predicting cultural tastes a year+ down the road is much harder. Naegle deserves much credit.

Vampire never really go out of style! They just change demographics! Bob didn’t catch that last.

I just downloaded the first episode of Blade: The Series last night. It was OK, but not terribly well acted by the lead – certainly not in comparison to Wesley Snipes, who is a good actor whatever one thinks of his movies. But Jill Wagner made up for it! So I’ll be downloading the rest of them over time.

Next up – checking out True Blood. There were some comments on it over at the Matt Yglesias political blog yesterday. Apparently people either love it or hate it. People who are from the South tend to hate the accents and the protrayal of the South, although some Southerners think it’s OK. Other people either like the stories or don’t. Everybody seems to like the sex. Some people seem to like the acting, particularly of Anna Paquin, while others think she sucks.

In other words, it’s all as usual.

My only concern is whether the story arc will hold my interest. I prefer stuff like Blade or Underworld because it’s all “conspiracy” and villains and action, not personal relationships-based drama. I don’t think “vampire family drama” works any better than “Terminator family drama”. (God forbid they give Friedman a vampire show next!)

However, I’ll be checking out Moonlight as well, mostly for Sophia Myles, who was terrific as Erica in the first Underworld movie. Seems to be a pretty slick vampire show.

So let me get this straight. You wrote an opinion piece about a subject you knew absolutely nothing about? Lovely.

Moonlight did technically get like double the viewers True Blood is getting, though of course CBS and HBO have different standards.

But if the second episode does similarly next week (and going down from season premieres is typically the rule, not the exception) we can probably reasonably conclude that it didn’t make much difference. But if the second episode goes down, we will not be able to form much of a basis for attributing it to the freeview weekend this past weekend.

I used to play Battlefield: 1942 as “Cpt.Winters” and then Battlefield: Vietnam as “Cpt.Spiers”

It’s good to see such success coming to the “Dead Until Dark” series via True Blood… and such laughable results coming from the Twilight movie franchise.

I didn’t particularly LOVE True Blood during the first season. I could sum it up with the word “meh”. It seems below HBO’s usual quality, but it’s an alright show and shows me enough boobies each week to keep me entertained. My girlfriend’s love of it gives me even more cause to watch it…

I am sure there are many people who cancel HBO when there are no new original series on they watch. I’d guess HBO can predict that fairly reliably at this point (e.g., how many people will cancel when Entourage goes into repeats, and come back when the new episodes come back).

I guess there is a certain point where prestige can afford them to suffer through nobody watching (5 years of The Wire).

Shoot, it would be more accurate if the cable operators would just ask people what motivated them to subscribe or why they are cancelling. I only keep an HBO/Showtime subscription when there is an original series I watch.

“Andrew, I don’t think “ratings” really matter for HBO at all”

What are you saying Robert? Surely they need to know if their customers like it or not lest they end up only showing stuff nobody likes, and hence everybody would be leaving?

and i know you are obsessed with the demo numbers (rightfully so or not) but HBO has to care less about that. they want viewers because it’s not advertising. they want people who pay for the service to watch no matter what the age. and i would think they don’t want too young because those people are less reliable to pay monthly.

like i said in my last post on the shot you gave naegle… baby steps. now they def need a companion to this. will it be hung? i heard the pilot is not great from a person who works on other hbo shows but some people are so jaded here (LA) that i never take those views seriously until i see it for myself.

The demo comparisons are probably completely unimportant other than for the stats junkies who want the capability of being able to do more in-depth comparisons (say, how does it stack up w/Dollhouse?). And if anyone at HBO needs to do that, I’m sure they have all the data they need available to them.

Do demo numbers even matter for HBO? Since they make their money of subscriptions, doesn’t that mean every viewer is as good as another, regardless of age?