TRUE BLOOD CREATOR DEVELOPING NEW SERIES FOR CINEMAX

With pay cable networks such as HBO, Showtime and Starz all enjoying success developing original programming on their channels, HBO sister network Cinemax wants to join in on the fun as well. This Friday, a brand new action series Strike Back premieres, which follows an American Special Ops Agent working for an elite British military unit. Cinemax is also developing a series based on the Transporter movies (12 episodes have been ordered for that) and now according to the Los Angeles Times, True Blood creator Alan Ball is set to develop a new show called Banshee, about an ex-con who poses as a murdered sheriff in a small Pennsylvania Amish town. There he enforces his own kind of justice while developing plans to serve his own ulterior motive.

Ball is developing the series, slated to shoot in the spring, along with writers Jonathan Tropper and David Shickler. So far Cinemax is turning out to be a pay cable version of what Spike TV should have been - an action-based network that shows other things besides Deadliest Warrior and Ultimate Fighter, two shows I love but the network needs to broaden it's horizons. Since I am a fan of Alan Ball's work, with Six Feet Under and now True Blood, I'm looking forward to seeing Ball's new show as well as transporter the TV series.