True Blood Creator Bringing Us Banshee

Deadline is reporting that Alan Ball (creator of True Blood and Six Feet Under) has been given a 10-episode order for a new series by HBO's sister network Cinemax.

Entitled Banshee, this new action-drama described as Walking Tall meets History of Violence, executive produced by Ball, centers around an "ex-convict and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, PA, where he continues his criminal activities even as he's being hunted by the shadowy gangsters he had betrayed years earlier."

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