HBO has announced that their new vampire drama True Blood, which premiered on September 7, already has the go ahead for a second season. The show stars Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, the protagonist in a series of novels by creator Charlaine Harris. The pilot episode of the series gained an audience of four million viewers, and the second episode grew the audience by twenty-four percent, nearly unheard of in today’s television market.
True Blood airs on HBO on Sundays at 9pm.