Here's an Associated Press review of
True Blood that likens its central vampire Bill to (Frid's) Barnabas:
Vampire novels adapted for HBO's 'True Blood'(As a side note: when I watched the original version of the
True Blood pilot (with Brook Kerr for you
Passions fans - though her role has since been recast), I thought Stephen Moyer, who plays Bill, looked familiar but I couldn't place him. But thanks to this review I now realize it's because he was in
Ultraviolet.
How foolish of me not to have remembered because I really enjoyed that - and now I'm looking forward to
True Blood even more than I already was because I know what Moyer is capable of doing with his role.)