Treme is an American television series in development with the HBO network. It was created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. The project is about musicians in New Orleans and is set in (and named after) Treme, a New Orleans neighborhood that is home to many of the city's musicians. The series is expected to begin airing in 2010.
Simon and Overmyer first worked together as writers on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street when the two ...
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Treme is an American television series in development with the HBO network. It was created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. The project is about musicians in New Orleans and is set in (and named after) Treme, a New Orleans neighborhood that is home to many of the city's musicians. The series is expected to begin airing in 2010.
Simon and Overmyer first worked together as writers on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street when the two became friends. They collaborated again on Simon's series The Wire when Overmyer joined the crew as a consulting producer and writer in 2006. Treme was put into development by HBO in 2008 shortly after the conclusion of The Wire. The show was envisioned to focus on the working class Treme neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and will be smaller in scope than The Wire, which examined an entire city.
Overmyer lives part-time in New Orleans and Simon believes his experience will be valuable in navigating the "ornate oral tradition"...
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