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Sometimes TV and real life become scarily similar that they blur into one another. We have just learned that a 19 year old man from Baltimore was arrested for a handgun charge last weekend. Ordinarily, this would not make the news – but, there are some startling similarities with this incident and the HBO TV series, The Wire. The man arrested on the weekend is named Omar Little – there is a character on The Wire with the same name. The incident happened in Baltimore, and the show is set in Baltimore. Sound similar? Is the show more real than we initially took it for?

Altho season 3 only just got started and a new season won’t even begin production until next year, HBO has announced that they have officially picked up True Blood for a 4th season. I’m sure there may be a small contingent of y’all out there worried that the show might not get picked up (er, yeah right) so this news should put those fears to rest:

As “True Blood” fans know, waiting sucks. But at least HBO isn’t making fans wait to find out if their favorite vampire soap opera will be back for a fourth season. On Monday (June 21), HBO announced that “True Blood” has been renewed for a 12-episode fourth season, set to begin production early next year and premiere in the summer of 2011. “The new season of ‘True Blood’ is off to a terrific start, as enthusiasm for this unique show continues to build among both subscribers and critics,” says HBO Programming President Michael Lombardo. “We’re looking forward to more chills from Alan Ball and his gifted team next year.” The third “True Blood” season premiered on June 13 and drew 5.1 million viewers for its first airing, not quite a record for the bloodsucking series, but up 38 percent from last summer’s season premiere. “I am beyond thrilled to be able to continue working with this amazing cast and crew,” states Alan Ball, who developed the series from Charlaine Harris’ novel series. “This is the most fun I have ever had.”

Well thank Jebus that is settled … I was only kinda sorta worried that HBO would decide not to renew its outrageously popular series for another season. Yeah, not really. I am fully expecting True Blood to last at least another 3 seasons … probably more. I understand the books have a lot of plots that can be developed for TV and, who knows, there may come a time where the show branches off into new, unwritten territory. True Blood seems like the kind of show that still has a lot to offer. I’m so happy that we have an assurance of at least one more season of butt-baring fun :D

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HBO has released a new video trailer that pays homage to their 2009 programming and teases their offerings for 2010 … including glimpses of their hit show True Blood! Here are a few screen caps from this new trailer that features everyone’s fave vamps and fangbangers along with some deets about the trailer itself:

HBO has just released its annual yearender that teases also what’s coming in 2010. “2009 was a big year for HBO, but 2010 will be just as big,” the cable said in the promo. Among the returning shows that get the first look is “True Blood” and among the new shows is miniseries “The Pacific”. Unfortunately, the promo that utilizes the song “This Could Be the Year” by Ryan Star, only displays a few second of Bill-Sookie moment as well as a brief glimpse of Sam and Jessica with her fangs out. It is doubtful that any of the scene is new since production has just been kicked off this month and it’s unlikely that the footage come out of it. The contrary happens to “Pacific” that gets a new footage of wedding and war scenes. “True Blood”, entering its third year, will be premiered in June while “The Pacific” that has ten episodes will be premiered on March 14. Other shows which are expected to come back during the summer are “Eastbound & Down”, “Entourage”, “Bored to Death” and “Hung”. Meanwhile, the TV films that follow the success of “Grey Gardens” are “Temple Grandin”, “The Special Relationship” and “You Don’t Know Jack”. New series that will be introduced next year are drama “Treme”, comedy “How to Make It in America”, and another drama “Broadwalk Empire”. HBO is the network that gets the biggest number of nominations at 2010 Golden Globe Awards. Pocketing 17 nods in total, HBO has the chance to win through Anna Paquin, “Taking Chance” and Bill Paxton among others.

Now, because Showtime has Dexter, they have my heart … BUT HBO does bring the heat and I am a faithful watcher of that network as well. I’m not fully on board with the True Blood Love Train but I do enjoy the show and am looking forward to seeing what will come next in the new season next year. After the jump, check out this video trailer in full and see what’s in-store from Home Box Office in 2010 …

In what could either be the coolest news ever — or possibly the worst news ever — it is being reported that Trent Reznor has approached HBO with the idea to turn the Nine Inch Nails album and viral marketing “game” Year Zero into a TV series for the cable network. Hmmmm:

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has been in talks in with HBO about making a two-season maxi-series out of “Year Zero,” the dark future tale that Reznor has chronicled in his music as well as in a celebrated Alternate Reality Game (ARG) with the same title that was created by 42 Entertainment. “It’s the most exciting thing on the horizon, it’s the thing that when I wake up in the morning it makes me say, ‘God it would be cool if that happened,” Reznor told me this week while sitting backstage before a Nails concert in Toronto. “This is my grand ambition. Will it happen? I don’t know. It was fun sitting and telling [the HBO] guys and watching them shake their head and having writers on board and producers that are in to it. It’s been a fun thing.” “Year Zero” began (as so many things do in the music of NIN) from a place of negative emotion and sonic experimentation. Reznor was increasingly outraged by the geopolitical situation during the Bush years and he wanted to channel that fury into music, but he was loath to drift into the limiting lexicon of protest lyrics. “How could I express what I was feeling in a way that didn’t sound like bitching about George Bush? I mean, you know, I love Neil Young but I didn’t want to listen to that record, really,” he said, referring to the singer-songwriter’s “Living with War.” “My reaction to that kind of record is, ‘We know this. It’s obvious.’ So it started with me trying to write it as a piece of fiction. I was thinking, ‘It could be the worst idea ever in the world but, if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t have to come out.’ I started by writing a kind of world bible about what life would be like around 15 or 20 years from now if things continue on the same path. I spent a few weeks filling it in with the events that could lead to this kind of time and place. Then as an experiment I started writing songs about people in this place and from different points of view.” The problem was the music was compelling and powerful, but it was more about sensation than story. “I had a record that would make sense to me but no one else would ever know what it was because there was no narrative. It’s modular, its a collection of snapshots. These were glimpses of a place. Maybe with liner notes I could communicate some of it, but how do you get liner notes in 2007?” He considered a graphic novel. “That was the route we were going to go with initially. We talked to a different companies about releasing it. But it didn’t feel quite right. We thought about a film, but that has a different timetable and too many people need to say yes. That wouldn’t line up right. then I started thinking about how I could make it really interactive, something you experience rather than something you read.” Reznor remembered reading about 42 Entertainment and their deeply layered ARG for the Steven Spielberg film “A.I.” He met with them and the result was a truly amazing through-the-looking-glass creation on-line, shaped by the 42 team working closely with the rock star and his art director, Rob Sheridan. “It’s ahrd to explain it,” Reznor said, and he’s right. But the best way to get your head around it is through the nifty (and entertaining) case-study presentation that you can find here. Reznor was delighted with the result. “It was probably the most fun thing I’ve done.” Now he wants to finish the story he started and do it across a range of media. “I just pitched it to HBO two weeks ago in L.A. It went great. Ideally, we’re trying to get them to do a two-year limited series. I prefer that over a film. We would have a second ARG tying into the second album and ties into the series and they all happen together with a budget needed to pull that all off. There would be a tour down the road. The record completes the story, the ending that no one knows. I know what happens. I knew when I started it. And it’s not what people think.”

My initial reaction is a positive one … the album and the online viral story that surrounds the album are very compelling, extremely entertaining. The Year Zero “game” had already successfully run its course by the time that the movie Cloverfield hopped on the bandwagon and took the viral feel to the big screen. I can deffo see how a TV series like this could work. I know that Reznor would insist that the series, if it ever comes to be, will be taken seriously. I’m all for it … I just fear that network bigwigs might decide to start messing with the concept too much. In the end, tho, I’d love to see a NIN-inspired TV series on the air.

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