Umm, why are articles like this in the "books" category? I don't understand. If this is the new format, then why do articles seem to appear haphazardly? I was really excited about the move to this new format until I was left having to shuffle through articles that have nothing to do with what category I was in. By the way, what happened to the archived review of books? Sheesh, Sci Fi Wired seems a mess.

I agree! Sci fi Wire is a mess. I used to enjoy the little bits of actual industry news the site featured. But now we get empty articles like this one that are WORTHLESS!!!! Worse, we have to put up with"witty" blog entries and hack writing, instead of actual news. If Sci Fi wants to use a blog format ( how original ), then try to populate it with solid reporting, not dubious opinion pieces and top ten lists. Seriously.

This doesn't say anything! There are no tidbits here. A more accurate article title would be "HBO president remains tight lipped about upcoming second season of True Blood"

The whole new format stinks. The old way we could find everything we wanted to look for in no time at all. Now we have to dig through a frustrating maze that most often has me saying--F***k it!--and leaving the site. Your old format was efficient and user-friendly. Why didn't you poll your fans and ask us what we thought needed fixing instead of dumping this cyber version of "New Coke" on us?

I have to agree with the above posts, this new format sucks. It was much better the way it was before. Fix it!
And while you're at it, fire all you're editorial "staff" too.

it's included in the books category because the show is based on books...wow, really hard to figure that one out. just like on a tech site an iphone story would be in both the phone and apple categories. it's called tagging. been around, oh, for YEARS now. and it's a great way to sort information.
have any of you actually used the internet before? why are you even reading if you hate it so much?

Most people associate it with TV because it's a TV show, though the same story is in the tv thread as well.

Not using capital letters worked for e e cummings--here you just look lazy. And your last sentence makes no sense. If we hated reading do you think we'd be in the books section?

yes, a story about TV show based on a book is tagged as both a TV and a book story...exactly what tagging is for. so in other words, it's working just fine. having only one category attached to content is a legacy from the library system when shelf space dictated there was only one copy of a book in one place, so you had to find ways to point to that one -- and only one -- space. technology has opened the door so that a piece of content can live in multiple places at the same time, making it EASIER to find via tagging.

as to my last comment, i meant, if you hate reading THIS SITE so much, why are you wasting your time reading it and saying how much you hate it?

only e e cummings can choose not to use capital letters? your sense of the world is overly rigid. change is good. embrace progress.

I agree with everyone the old wire was better and much more comfortable. if it isnt broke dont fix it!

Lolgirl, who said they hated it? Nobody. Not a single person. I said it was a mess another agreed and someone else said it sucked.

Who cares what's tagged and what isn't? That still doesn't mean they don't have the ability to put said "tagged" items where they belong.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is a show based on a book. Guess what, the article is still about the show and not the book. In any case in the old format I bookmarked the book reviews simply to catch up on current literature and now I have to peruse countless articles of what is tantamount to pop culture gossip. I don't necessarily mind that, but if I wanted to do that I should be able to go to the category to do so. In other words if I wanted to hear the latest gossip/news about a TV show, I should be able to get that through the TV section.

At any rate I hope Sci Fi Wired uses the comments as a way to improve the current format. I'd like to see a section devoted solely for book reviews like they had on the old one.

What tidbits?
Nothing was offered here.
This was a complete waste to read.

Worst redesign ever. You had something that worked, with reviews that I looked forward to. I bought many a book from the book review category.
And now ? This isn't even about books, just TV adaptations of books. Those are *not* books.

I mourn the death of a website I cherished for years. Way to kill puppies dudes.

Let me just add my voice to the chorus: the old book reviews section of SFWeekly was much better that this. Much better.

All I can say is that I'm happy that Sue Naegle, from HBO saw the potential for True Blood and her instinct proved her right for True Blood has helped improve HBO's standing and ratings.

http://truebloodnet.com

the show was a waste of time they picked a terrible Sookie and Bill and they completely left out Bubba
how can the show make any sense in later series without bubba to start with.