TREME picked up by HBO

by | May 18, 2009 | TV

Was there ever any doubt? Just in case you were nervous, word leaked out this week that HBO has indeed picked up David Simon’s post Katrina series Treme. The cabler has ordered ten episodes (pilot plus nine more). HBO has not put out any official statement, but...

Oscar Nominee Joins Cast of David Simon's TREME

by | Mar 10, 2009 | TV

David Simon will have another familiar face on the set of Treme. Oscar Nominee Mellisa Leo has signed on to play an unnamed civil rights lawyer in the post-Katrina New Orleans drama. Leo previously played Det. Sgt. Kay Howard in Simon’s Homicide: Life on the...

Steven Zahn, Kim Dickens in Talks to Join Treme

by | Feb 5, 2009 | TV

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Steve Zhan (Out of Sight, That Thing you do!) is in discussions to join the cast of David Simon’s upcoming HBO drama Treme. According to the site, his character would be a “whip-smart street dancer, local radio DJ,...

DVD Review: The Big Easy: season one

by | Jul 6, 2008 | TV

MPI Home VideoRelease date: June 24th, 2008SRP: $39.98Four-disc set with 22 episodesStars: Tony Crane, Susan Walters, Barry Corbin, Karla TamburrelliThis cable TV adaptation of the 1987 Dennis Quaid-Ellen Barkin film premiered on USA Network in August 1996. Produced...

New Crime Shows This Fall.

by | Oct 4, 2007 | TV

by Gerald SoK-Ville (Mondays, 8PM on FOX) is a cop drama set in post-Katrina New Orleans, starring Anthony Anderson and Cole (son of Wings) Hauser. The premiere was fine. Good action, good atmosphere, but the backstory of Hauser’s character, Trevor Cobb, ruins...