Anna Paquin

Kinky Vampire Time!

The first episode of True Blood (Channel 4, Wednesdays, 10pm) sets out to shock, featuring a couple getting amorous strung from a meat hook while watching vampire sex on video. So far, so very, very good. It has been a huge success in America, winning Anna Paquin a 2009 Golden Globe for best actress in a television drama. It is now HBO's second most popular series, after The Sopranos. To add to the mix, and to the delight of the British tabloids, in August Paquin got engaged in real life to her vampire lover, the English actor Stephen Moyer. He is 40, she is 27, and so bloody what?

"It's a really full-on, sexy show," Paquin says. "Lots of weird, kinky vampire sex and weird, kinky mortal sex! It never put me off. I guess either you read something and go, "Oh, my God, no!", or you read something and you go, 'That's sort of cool!'

Here's the intro and an interview with Anna Paquin and Brit Stephen Moyer, who plays her vampire love intrest in the series, and here are some pictures of Ms Paquin. If you've missed True Blood, catch up quick. It's awesome.