Coming Up on True Blood...

True Blood executive producer Alan Ball and co-star Sam Trammell, a.k.a. Sam Merlotte, know that we’re all waiting with breath that is bated for next summer, which is when the HBO hit show will return with a new season’s worth of episodes.

In the meantime, Ball and Trammell are giving us a taste of what’s to come. Aside from obligatory shirtlessness courtesy of Ryan Kwanten.

Ball says that Season 3 will be “a lot about what it means to be who you are, or what you are,” adding that Sookie (Anna Paquin) “will get closer to figuring out why she has these random powers that show up when they do.” (Hint: Sookie may have a bit of a Tinker Bell thing going on, but, y’ know...minus the adorable factor.)

For his part, Trammell, “is going to be trying to find my biological family, who put me up for adoption or abandoned me. I have a feeling they’re going to be very creepy, sketchy, weird, shape-shiftery weirdos. They’re going to be bad news.”

Summer 2010 cannot get here soon enough!

Photo: TVGuide.com.