We may just be halfway into season three of True Blood, but it's not too early to look far ahead, is it?

Not according to the man in charge, Alan Ball.

In a recent interview with MTV, the show's creator offered the following tidbit regarding season four, which won't air until the summer of 2011:

"There will be witches and some of the characters we’ve known all along will have powers that maybe they didn’t even know about. That’s where it gets fun storytelling-wise because you have so many doors to open."

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