Congrats to Joe Manganiello who has signed on as a series regular for True Blood, Season 4 on HBO as "Alcide Herveaux." http://thetruebloodblog.com / The True Blood Blog
"He plays hot sexy alpha male werewolf Alcide Herveaux, an iconic character in the The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels that True Blood is based on...He was originally supposed to appear only in a handful of episodes, but I hear he impressed the show's producers and was embraced by True Blood fans... True Blood, which was just nominated for a best drama series Emmy, was renewed for a 4th season just 2 episodes into the current third season. As for Season 3 of the vampire drama, there is a lot of chatter that some original cast members will be killed off by season's end (!)
(Deadline.com)
I like Joe Manganiello plenty but he hasn't had enough scenes with Sookie for me to be able to determine if they have chemistry. OTOH, since they are bringing on Joe/Alcide as a featured character then possibly, a series regular may go. I don't see a plausible way to "get rid" of the original featured cast member but I do agree with the loud Internet chatter that one of the lead characters has had very few compelling aspects that would make the character an audience favourite.
I am of the opinion that book four of the Sookie Stackhouse series was especially good--and Alcide it seems will be very busy next season--so good times ahead!
Alcide gets yummier all the time! Cannot wait to see in in Season 4. I'll bet they write him a great storyline!
Posted by: Cyn | August 10, 2010 at 07:00 PM
Glad Alcide will be joining us for Season 4 besides being quite yummy I like his character as well!
Posted by: Catie | July 25, 2010 at 07:00 PM