TRUE BLOOD Season 6 to Kick-Off June 16 on HBO

True Blood is bringing the Supernatural back this June.

HBO has set the date for the season 6 premiere of the hit series: Sookie, Bill, Jason and the rest of the Cajun crew will return on June 16.

The upcoming season will be comprised of 10 episodes, rather than the standard 12, in order to accomodate Anna Paquin's pregnancy.

True Blood was created by Alan Ball, who recently left the series. Co-executive producer Brian Buckner has taken over as showrunner for the series based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris; executive producer Gregg Fienberg; co-executive producers, Buckner, Alexander Woo, Raelle Tucker, Mark Hudis and Angela Robinson; co-producers, Christina Jokanovich, Marlis Pujol and David Auge.

Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, True Blood takes place in a world where vampires and humans co-exist, after vampires have come out of the coffin, thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood that means they no longer need humans as a nutritional source.

The series follows waitress and part-faerie Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who can hear people's thoughts, vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) and vampire Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard).

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