Treme (TV series)

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Television series
Original title Treme
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2010-2013
Production
company		 Blown Deadline Productions
length 58 minutes
Episodes 36 in 4 seasons ( list )
genre drama
Theme music John Boutté - The Treme Song
idea David Simon , Eric Overmyer
production David Simon , Carolyn Strauss , Laura A. Schweigman , Eric Overmyer , Nina Kostroff Noble
music Blake Leyh
First broadcast April 11, 2010 (USA) on HBO
German-language
first broadcast		 August 28, 2012 on Sky Atlantic HD
occupation
John Goodman
Creighton Bernette ( Hartmut Neugebauer )
Steve Zahn
Davis McAlary ( Bernhard Völger )
Rob Brown
Delmond Lambreaux ( Tim Knauer )
Melissa Leo
Toni Bernette ( Rita Engelmann )
Khandi Alexander
LaDonna Batiste-Williams ( Anke Reitzenstein )
Kim Dickens
Janette Desautel ( Katrin Zimmermann )
Clarke Peters
Albert Lambreaux ( Reiner Schöne )
Wendell Pierce
Antoine Batiste ( Marco Kröger )
Michiel Huisman
Sonny ( Karlo Hackenberger )
Lucia Micarelli
Annie ( Sarah Riedel )

Treme [ trəˈmeɪ ] is an American drama series directed by David Simon and Eric Overmyer . Tremé is a residential neighborhood in New Orleans . Set three months after Hurricane Katrina , the series is about how residents of the city - musicians, chefs, and Mardi Gras Indians, among others - are trying to rebuild New Orleans, their lives and their culture after Hurricane 2005. The series started on April 11, 2010 on the pay TV channel HBO . The first season consists of 10 episodes, including an 80-minute pilot episode . The tenth and final episode is also 80 minutes long. While the first season is about the aftermath of the hurricane, the second is about rebuilding New Orleans. The fourth and final season ended on December 29, 2013.

The German-language first broadcast was shown by the pay TV broadcaster Sky Atlantic HD from August 28, 2012 to April 15, 2014.

production

Conception

Simon and Overmyer first worked together as writers on the television series Homicide and became friends. Their next project together was The Wire series , which Overmyer joined the production team as a consultant producer and writer in 2006. Treme was given under development by HBO shortly after The Wire ended in 2008. The concept was designed to show the working people of Tremé rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, rather than an entire city as with The Wire .

Overmyer lives partially in New Orleans and Simon believed his experience was very helpful in developing the series. Simon explained that Treme is about New Orleans culture, such as music, but also political corruption, housing problems, the criminal justice system , the clashes between the police and Mardi Gras Indians, and an attempt to revive the tourism industry. Simon also brought local musicians Donald Harrison , Kermit Ruffins and Davis Rogan as well as cook Susan Spicer into his production team as advice .

Casting

The Wire actor Wendell Pierce was the first to get a role in Treme . His involvement became known shortly after a pilot announced in July 2008. Pierce was born in New Orleans and plays Antoine Batiste, a trombonist. Clarke Peters , also an actor on The Wire , also joined Treme early in the development phase. Peters plays a leader of a Mardi Gras Indian tribe who are trying to get their people home. Khandi Alexander , who previously appeared in Simon's The Corner , also plays a role in Treme . In August 2008, Alexander was cast as LaDonna Batiste, Pierce's falling out wife and bar owner.

The film actor Steve Zahn was hired in February 2009. Treme is his first television series. Zahn plays a dancer, DJ and band musician with aggression problems. Zahn's character is based on the show's advisor, Davis Rogan. Kim Dickens of HBO's Deadwood and NBC's Friday Night Lights was also cast in February 2009. She plays a cook who has a stormy relationship with Zahn's character. Rob Brown plays Delmond Lambreaux. Brown's character is a New York jazz musician and son of Peters' character, who comes home reluctantly. Academy Award nominee and Homicide actress Melissa Leo plays a civil rights attorney. John Goodman was cast as her husband and college professor while further episodes were being shot. His scenes were subsequently cut into the pilot.

As with The Wire , local New Orleans actors were cast as often as possible. The casting ran from January to February 2009 and was carried out by RPM Casting . Phyllis Montana LeBlanc was cast as the friend of Peters' character. LeBlanc was recommended by director Spike Lee , who worked with her on the HBO documentary When the Levees Broke, about Hurricane Katrina. In addition, the well-known musician Kermit Ruffins plays himself in the pilot film. Other musical guest appearances include Allen Toussaint , Dr. John , Elvis Costello , Steve Earle and his son Justin Townes Earle , Sammie Williams , Donald Harrison Jr., Galactic , Troy Andrews , Deacon John , The Rebirth and Tremé Brass Bands .

development

A filming location in Tremé , New Orleans

In 2008, HBO commissioned a pilot episode for the series, but not a full season. The development of the pilot was announced on the Television Critics Association Press Tour in summer 2008. Simon hoped that he could shoot the first episode that same year and the remaining episodes when commissioned in 2009. The series should be on location in New Orleans will be rotated and thus strengthen the economy.

The shooting of the pilot did not begin until March 2009, directed by Agnieszka Holland . Holland had previously shot three episodes of The Wire for David Simon. In total, HBO ultimately ordered 10 episodes.

After one episode was broadcast, HBO extended the series for a second season. This was shot in autumn 2010. In May 2011, after three episodes of the second season were broadcast, the broadcaster Treme extended for a third season. Although the ratings have fallen in the second season, HBO extended the series in November 2011 for a fourth and final season.

Production team

Treme is David Simon's fourth series for HBO after The Corner , The Wire and Generation Kill . He acts as a show runner and executive producer . Eric Overmyer is an experienced stage and television writer. At Treme he works as a co-executive producer and screenwriter.

Simon and Overmyer began putting together a team of writers for the entire series. First they hired local writer Tom Piazza , author of the nonfiction book Why New Orleans Matters . Piazza and Overmyer had known each other for many years; Simon was well acquainted with Piazza's works. Simon and Overmyer also hired Lolis Eric Elie , a reporter for The Times-Picayune newspaper . Simon, a journalist himself before he started working for television, was impressed by Elie's knowledge of the local people and backgrounds. Elie was the author of the documentary Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans . Furthermore, novelist George Pelecanos is a member of the team of authors. Pelecanos had previously written all five seasons of The Wire .

Simon also hired former reporter David Mills as co-executive producer and screenwriter. Mills was a music enthusiast who previously worked with Overmyer and Simon on Homicide , The Corner, and The Wire . On March 30, 2010, twelve days before the series premiered, Mills died unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm in New Orleans.

Blake Leyh was responsible for the music in Treme . He also worked on The Wire , among other things .

Episode list

Awards

In the primetime Emmy Awards 2010 was Treme in the categories of Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (for the first episode Do You Know What It Means , Agnieszka Holland) and Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics (for the song This City by Steve Earle in of the episode I'll Fly Away ). The series was also nominated twice at the 2011 Grammy Awards . In the categories Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television, or other Visual Media and Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (Steve Earles This City ).

Web links

Individual evidence

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