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Will HBO like David Simon's pilot for a new series set in New Orleans, Treme? I sure hope so! 
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
Oct 26, 2009 4:29 PM
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Keeping my fingers crossed for John Boutte and 'The Treme Song'.....
It would be PERFECT!
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
Oct 1, 2009 5:48 AM
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7 months to go 
April launch for Treme
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HBO announced an April launch for ?Treme,? the New Orleans-set drama from ?The Wire? creator David Simon on Thursday, and officially renewed the Louisiana-set Vampire drama ?True Blood.?
Simon shot the pilot for ?Treme,? set in the city?s second-line and Mardi Gras Indian scene, earlier this year in New Orleans. Production on the rest of the first season is expected to begin in November
http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2009/07/hbo_announces_april_launch_for.html
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
Oct 1, 2009 5:46 AM
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Interview with Clark Peters, mentions Treme
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?Without giving too much away, it?s about how culture is reclaimed through musicians and chefs. What do I play? An upright bass. In the wake of the disaster, you can imagine David exercising his right to comment on a whole bunch of stuff. Some people will get it in the neck, some in the knees.?
http://www.tremefansite.com/
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
Sep 5, 2009 1:45 AM
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tremefansite,
Be my guest and leave a link to your site, I'd love to see it, please
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
Aug 28, 2009 12:42 PM
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It would be a shame if they didn't use John Boutte's "Treme Song" as theme music! It's perfect!
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Auditions for New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme?
Aug 1, 2009 1:53 AM
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Hi there. My name is Neil..I'm originally from the baton rouge and new orleans area. I am currently living in new orleans and was wondering if there is anyway I can audition for this show. It seems like a very interesting concept and having grown up here and recently returned, I hope that there would be an opportunity for me to somehow ge involved! Would love to hear about the process.
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
Jul 5, 2009 11:51 AM
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Looks like Rainy has been following Treme from the start. Thanks for some of the reports - may replicate them on Treme Fan Site if OK with you?
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
Jun 19, 2009 1:28 AM
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David Simon talks 'Treme' at the National Press Club
by Dave Walker, TV columnist, The Times-Picayune
Monday June 08, 2009, 2:11 PM
G. ANDREW BOYD / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
The crew for the HBO series "Treme" sets up to film a segment of the pilot episode in the Times-Picayune newsroom the night of April 1-2, 2009.
The state of the newspaper business was the topic of David Simon's luncheon talk Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., but "Treme" came up.
A former Baltimore Sun reporter who's lately been speaking and writing and testifying about the lunch's main topic, Simon has helped make some of the era's greatest TV ("Homicide: Life on the Street," "The Corner," "Generation Kill," "The Wire") and is currently working on "Treme," a new HBO series to be set and shot in New Orleans with a premiere date some time in 2010.
"It's really not 'The Wire' with a soundtrack," Simon said when asked about the new series (the talk was cablecast on C-SPAN2 and will stream in reruns on the Press Club website). "It's not a crime show. It's about people trying to find their way home and reconstitute their lives in a city that was very ill-treated in the wake of the storm, and I don't just mean the immediate wake, but in all the years that have followed. The national response to what has gone on in New Orleans is an embarrassment."
The series will center on New Orleans' music culture, but Simon was asked if his interest in the city is metaphorical - if "Treme" will actually be as much about Wall Street and its collapse as what levee-failure floodwater did to Dumaine Street.
"That sounds so didactic as to be a room-cleaner," Simon said.
But the talk time was almost over and the room would shortly be clearing anyway, so:
"I think there's an analogy to be made, but if any character were to say that directly it would be cut out of the script," he said. "It is true, New Orleans was hit with category 2 -- a high category 2, not even a category 3 - hurricane. If you tell people from New Orleans that their city was drowned by a hurricane, they'll get very angry with you, and rightly so.
"Their city was drowned by the Corp of Engineers and shoddy workmanship and stuff that wasn't built to code and bad decisions in terms of transportation policy and the ineffectiveness of Congress in terms of dealing with Mississippi River issues.
"This is our country, and if you compare it to the Dutch, who have managed to keep most of their country out of the North Sea for generations, it's humiliating.
"And if you think about those (New Orleans) canal walls, how badly they were built, how much corruption went into the poor maintenance of them and the poor planning and you think about the (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) and all of the attendant regulation that wasn't there so that you couldn't sell crap and call it gold on Wall Street ...
"Selling crap and calling it gold eventually comes home. It came home to New Orleans about four years before it came home to the rest of the country in a very literal way -- not in a metaphorical, financial way.
"What I really admire about people there is that they're really trying to find their way home, because it is one of the great places in America culturally, and they're trying to find their way back and they're doing it on their own.
"If you look at everything from the way Road Home money was administered to the way FEMA behaved -- not just in the immediate aftermath but in the months and years since - and now in terms of the state and local government and what they're doing in terms of everything from zoning issues to the hospitals -- that city's enduring and trying to find its way home on its own and without illusion anymore about what the country is, how hollow America actually is when it comes to certain things, and I find that to be interesting and admirable, and it's kind of what I want to pay attention to now.
"And I think we're all in that boat. A lot of things we believed were there to keep certain parameters and certain standards inherent in everything systemic in our lives really weren't there, and have been eviscerated over the course of decades. So ... New Orleans is looking at us now I think a little bit, like 'Well, what did you expect? We've been there.'"
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
May 23, 2009 1:08 PM
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hey Gregstah
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
May 17, 2009 1:43 PM
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hi rainy!
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
May 16, 2009 2:19 AM
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All About Jazz.com
Basin Street Records Releases Kermit Ruffins' "Livin' a Treme Life"
2009-04-24
SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity
Kermit Ruffins Catch Kermit at the 2009 NOLA Heritage & Jazz Festival and Lincoln Center's Mid Summer Night Swing!
Kermit is currently acting in and consulting for new HBO pilot Treme, created by David Simon (The Wire).
?An unabashed entertainer who plays trumpet with a bright, silvery tone." --New York Times
Make no mistake, everything about Kermit Ruffins exemplifies New Orleans. Residing in the town of Treme, former home of his predecessors Louis Prima and Louis Armstrong, he continues the big brass tradition the town is known for--Kermit plays a ?sweet, sweet horn," as Michael J. Agovino of Newsweek notes. His musical stylings resemble the culture of New Orleans, a melting pot, with Jazz, funk, standards and hip-hop. His charisma, both onstage and on his recordings, reflects the spirit of his city.
Kermit's love for New Orleans is not just shown in his music. He gives back to his city not as if a necessity or chore, but as a way of life. And Kermit's city embraces him the same way he embraces it. Kermit will be performing two dates during Jazz Fest. On April 25th he'll be taking center stage with his original outfit, the Rebirth Brass Band. On May 1st he'll be fronting his own band, The Barbecue Swingers, right before Tony Bennett. Kermit continues to shoot and consult for the new series Treme, from Emmy winning writer/producer David Simon (The Wire, Homicide). In fact, he has become one of pilots central characters.
Livin' A Treme Life, Kermit's 11th release, his 7th on Basin Street Records, is aptly named for what his music embodies--a town and lifestyle known for being rich in music and culture, essential to the city of New Orleans. Kermit's appreciation for his town is shown in his lyrics and his sound. His rich, raspy voice and the bright, clean blows on his horn will transport you right to the Big Easy. Enjoy the ride.
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
May 16, 2009 2:15 AM
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http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2009/05/david_simon_talks_about_hbos_t.html
David Simon talks about HBO's 'Treme' while in Washington, D.C., to talk about newspapers
by Dave Walker, The Times-Picayune
Friday May 08, 2009, 6:09 PM
While news was spreading mid-week about HBO's series commitment to "Treme," a new drama to be set and shot in New Orleans, co-creator David Simon was testifying in front of a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing titled "The Future of Journalism."
A link to the full gruesome video of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet hearing is here.
Simon, who worked as a reporter at the Baltimore Sun before turning to writing books and TV, comes on at the 97:50 mark.
The embedded video of Simon discussing "Treme" was captured by the "Art Beat" blog of PBS's"NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" outside the hearing room.
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
May 16, 2009 2:14 AM
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On the HBO 'Treme' trail: Will David Simon's New Orleans-set series be too weird for the world?
Dave Walker, Times Picayune 4.29.09
A British website reported Monday that David Simon - co-creator of HBO's "The Wire" and the prospective New Orleans-set series "Treme" - is considering a project, also for HBO, tracking the social and political history of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Also mentioned in the post is a project about the nearly three-decade-long battle to desegregate public housing in the Yonkers district of New York.
These add to previously announced projects for Simon, one of which is "Treme," another an HBO miniseries adaptation, co-written with Tom Fontana ("Oz"), of James L. Swanson's "Manhunt," about the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth.
While we wait, I'll continue to unspool quotes from the panel interview Simon and his "Treme" co-creator Eric Overmyer, a playwright turned TV writer, participated in during the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Jed Horne, a former Times-Picayune city editor and author of "Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City," served as moderator.
One of the nagging concerns about "Treme" is its commercial viability, even for HBO. After all, Simon and Overmyer have chosen an idiosyncratic and little-known-beyond-NOLA subculture in which to set their drama.
? What: "Treme," a prospective HBO drama set in the New Orleans music community.
?Who: Co-created by David Simon ("The Wire") and Eric Overmyer ("St. Elsewhere," "The Wire"), the series, if picked up to go a full season by the network, would star New Orleans native Wendell Pierce ("The Wire"), Clarke Peters ("The Wire"), Khandi Alexander ("The Corner"), Steve Zahn ("That Thing You Do!") and Kim Dickens (Joanie Stubbs in HBO's "Deadwood").
Also cast is local Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, profiled in Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke" and author of 2008's "Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina" for Atria Books.
In addition to Simon and Overmyer, the show's writing staff includes Tom Piazza (the nonfiction "Why New Orleans Matters," the novel "City of Refuge") and Times-Picayune reporter Lolis Eric Elie (whose documentary "Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans" is currently airing on public TV outlets around the country), George Pelecanos (a crime-novelist and "Wire" writer) and David Mills ("Homicide: Life on the Street," "NYPD Blue, "The Wire"). Simon's local consultants include musicians Donald Harrison Jr., Kermit Ruffins (who plays himself in the pilot) and Davis Rogan, as well as chef Susan Spicer.
? When: Shooting on the pilot, or possible premier episode, concluded in New Orleans on April 1. HBO will likely announce the show's pick-up for a full season - or not - in June. If picked up, production on more episodes will begin in November. The series won't air until 2010.
Simon, for whom "Treme's" subject matter is a longstanding passion, is the guy to pull it off, no doubt.
Impenetrable and perplexing to newcomers, "The Wire" wasn't exactly musical comedy. (Never a hit for HBO, it nonetheless ran for five critically acclaimed seasons and is now thriving in DVD afterlife.)
The early hours of "Generation Kill," the Iraq-invasion miniseries he adapted for HBO, were all about the fog of war, and yet eventually delivered great TV drama.
But what will America make of brass bands and Mardi Gras Indians, should HBO brave a full-season pickup?
"At this point, I can say I've made a career of costing myself viewership," Simon said during the panel. "It works fine in a model where you have HBO in the world, where you don't need everybody to opt into a show, where you don't need to rely on heavy exposition or making everything abundantly clear to the lowest common denominator, because you're not as ratings-dependent.
" 'Frank's Place' had to survive in a network world. It needed a 15, 17, 18 'share' -- probably back then more. It needed to cover a third of the viewers. If it didn't, the network was frowning at it."
(A rare screen depiction of New Orleans life actually beloved by New Orleanians, the half-hour "Frank's Place" lasted just the 1987-1988 season.)
"With 'Homicide,' we were a 12, 13, 14 'share' and we were a failure, and we were begging to stay on the air all those years," Simon continued. "Now, a 14 'share' in the fractured world of television, where there are so many channels, you can get 1 million or 2 million viewers -- if you get a certain amount of the zeitgeist and a certain amount of talk and you bring a certain a mount of viewers into the tent to (pay for premium cable) -- you can survive.
"You can tell a story that's idiosyncratic, where you don't have to explain a second line or roux or lagniappe. None of it has to be explained immediately for fear of losing 5-6 viewers. We lose viewers all the time."
Horne, who'd read the "Treme" pilot script shot in New Orleans in March and early April, asked Simon and Overmyer if the series would have an emblematic character - "the embodiment of what Dubuque thinks of New Orleans."
Horne cited characters from plays and films (Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois, Brooke Shields' child prostitute in "Pretty Baby") as examples of such characters, but he could've also mentioned Don Yesso's Shorty in "Frank's Place," whose thick accent and patois required subtitles.
"I predict it's Kermit Ruffins," Overmyer said. "We actually have a line in the pilot, where another character is trying to urge Kermit to become famous, and says, 'America needs it some Kermit.'
"I predict that America will get it some Kermit. He plays himself, but he's a star."
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Re: New HBO/David Simon Series - Treme
May 16, 2009 2:13 AM
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On the HBO 'Treme' trail: David Simon's new series won't be more of 'The Wire'
Dave Walker, Times Picayune, 4.23.09
Hard to believe, but some people are just now discovering "The Wire," the Baltimore-set drama that concluded a five-season run on HBO more than a year ago.
The latest appears to be Bill Moyers, who devoted a full episode of his PBS series "Bill Moyers' Journal" to the show and its creator, David Simon. It aired locally on WYES-Channel 12 this past Sunday (April 19).
Simon's next project, the prospective New Orleans-set drama "Treme," also for HBO, only gets a glancing reference during the hour, but you can watch it here.
"Treme's" pilot, or possible premier episode, was shot around the city in March through early April. HBO will decide the series' fate in the next few weeks, background data in the box.
Before, during and ever since the "Treme" pilot-shoot, Simon's been a busy guy -- discussing it, the decline of American newspapers (he's a former Baltimore Sun reporter) and "The Wire," episodes of which are available via DVD box set and cable on-demand.
Before the pilot wrapped, Simon and "Treme" co-creator Eric Overmyer, a playwright turned TV writer who's owned a home here for years, discussed the project at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, assisted by moderator Jed Horne, whose book, "Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City," served as a reference source for the writers.
? What: "Treme," a prospective HBO drama set in the New Orleans music community.
?Who: Co-created by David Simon ("The Wire") and Eric Overmyer ("St. Elsewhere," "The Wire"), the series, if picked up to go a full season by the network, would star New Orleans native Wendell Pierce ("The Wire"), Clarke Peters ("The Wire"), Khandi Alexander ("The Corner"), Steve Zahn ("That Thing You Do!") and Kim Dickens (Joanie Stubbs in HBO's "Deadwood").
Also cast is local Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, profiled in Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke" and author of 2008's "Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina" for Atria Books.
In addition to Simon and Overmyer, the show's writing staff includes Tom Piazza (the nonfiction "Why New Orleans Matters," the novel "City of Refuge") and Times-Picayune reporter Lolis Eric Elie (whose documentary "Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans" is currently airing on public TV outlets around the country), George Pelecanos (a crime-novelist and "Wire" writer) and David Mills ("Homicide: Life on the Street," "NYPD Blue, "The Wire"). Simon's local consultants include musicians Donald Harrison Jr., Kermit Ruffins (who plays himself in the pilot) and Davis Rogan, as well as chef Susan Spicer.
? When: Shooting on the pilot, or possible premier episode, concluded in New Orleans on April 1. HBO will likely announce the show's pick-up for a full season - or not - in June. If picked up, production on more episodes will begin in November. The series won't air until 2010.
Horne, a former Times-Picayune city editor who'd been allowed to read the otherwise tightly guarded pilot script to prepare for the panel, noted that crime and civic affairs take a back seat in the story to scene-setting and character introductions.
Simon and Overmyer admitted they'd indulged in deliberate story-pacing in the opening episode, but with specific chronological accuracy in mind. The story begins just a few weeks after the storm.
"Most people -- with the exception of certain activists or people who are involved with certain actions of certain institutions - (were) trying to get the guy to get the blue tarp off the roof, and (were) trying to figure out how to make the next day easier than the one before," Simon said. "You're telling the story from people's lives, and the people are of ordinary scale. That doesn't mean that you might not have one character who might encounter the incongruities of federal housing policy, of tearing down housing projects at the moment there's this incredibly diaspora out of New Orleans. Someone might encounter that, but it has to be organic. There has to be a reason.
"You can't just walk your characters all into a meeting about holding the Corps accountable, or about making New Orleans have a smaller footprint and have them all be there and vent. That becomes didactic and very undramatic."
Added Overymyer, "We were trying to let our characters lead us."
As for crime, Simon said there just wasn't very much of it in the time period covered in the pilot, or, for that matter, in most of the period covered in the first season.
"The truth is, if there had been significant crime in December, we would address it," Simon said. "As most of you know, crime didn't come back until summer (of 2006), or late spring. At that point it'll raise its head."
Given Simon's success at telling TV crime stories, the pilot script's absence of traditional TV "action" was a concern of HBO's.
Before "The Wire," two of Simon's books, "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" and "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" (co-written with Ed Burns) had been adapted for TV, for NBC ("Homicide: Life on the Street") and HBO ("The Corner"), respectively.
"At some point, (HBO) read the first draft of the script and they perceived that it was all drawn in small moments," Simon said. "It seemed as if the show was in jeopardy.
"In order to try to save the project, I blurted out, 'OK, I'll give you some "Wire." Nobody was shot in December. There was no crime. It was all in Houston. If that'll get us over, I want to be able to make this.'
"I sat down to try to do it and I didn't have the heart. I called them back and said I couldn't do it.
"We're not trying to do 'The Wire' again. We did 'The Wire' once. Move on."
Overmyer added that the difference in focus was obvious even to veteran crew members who'd worked on earlier shows with the men.
Shooting a second-line scene for "Treme," an assistant director "came over and said, 'This is so much better than gunshots and crime scenes,'" Overmyer said. "I think we're both happy to not be doing a crime show."
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May 16, 2009 2:11 AM
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Dominic West of 'The Wire' to direct an episode of David Simon's new HBO series
May 15, 2009, 04:14 PM | by Missy Schwartz
Dominic West is planning on reuniting with David Simon, creator of The Wire. West, who played the incorrigible Baltimore po-lice Jimmy McNulty on the late, great HBO series, says he is likely to direct an episode of Simon's new series, Treme, about post-Katrina New Orleans. "I directed [an episode] of The Wire, and [David] said to me right after, 'Yeah, I'll employ you again,'" says West, who's currently in the U.K. shooting the BBC drama Breaking the Mould. "So when I read the pilot for Treme, I wrote to him and I said, 'Look, you've got to let me have a go on it.' And he said he would. I don't know when they'll get me in, but I can't wait. It's a really good show. I've read the pilot. I haven't seen it yet, but...I think it'll be even better than The Wire, actually." Though the two men are on different continents at the moment, West is optimistic they'll work out their schedules. Laughing, he explains: "I see [David] fairly regularly. He seems to be over in this country quite a lot these days, being feted and given hero's welcome." (Reporting by Simon Vozick-Levinson)
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