{"id":15396,"date":"2011-06-22T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=15396"},"modified":"2011-06-22T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T10:17:17","slug":"could-alan-ball-be-leaving-true-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/could-alan-ball-be-leaving-true-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Alan Ball be leaving True Blood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15401\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/could-alan-ball-be-leaving-true-blood\/attachment\/promo-season-2-true-blood-6720763-553-397\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15401\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"PROMO-SEASON-2-true-blood-6720763-553-397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PROMO-SEASON-2-true-blood-6720763-553-397-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PROMO-SEASON-2-true-blood-6720763-553-397-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PROMO-SEASON-2-true-blood-6720763-553-397.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/true-blood-season-4-trailer\/\">Season Four <\/a>of the sexed-up vampire drama premiers in the US this weekend, creator\/writer\/producer Alan Ball reveals that not only is he currently negotiating for a Season Five, but he doesn&#8217;t know if he&#8217;ll stick with the show after that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/true-blood-alan-ball-negotiating-204459\">Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Ball commented, &#8220;Right now I\u2019m in the middle of negotiating for a fifth season. I don\u2019t know if I have any left in me after that. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ball added that he found Season Four of <em>True Blood<\/em> \u201creally tough,\u201d and while he\u2019s happy with it, he\u2019s \u201cready to take a big vacation right now. I\u2019ll play it by ear and see how it happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showrunner says he doesn&#8217;t know if he can continue after Season Five<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":15401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[2000,90],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PROMO-SEASON-2-true-blood-6720763-553-397.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}