“TREME is remarkably daring television, dense and unyielding.” – Time Out

 
“Sky Atlantic continues to wheel out the heavy hitters…

The latest masterpiece from HBO is TREME.” – TV Times

Sky Atlantic HD today (Friday 22 February 2013) announces that the third season of HBO’s critically acclaimed TREME, will launch exclusively to Sky customers from Friday March 15^th.

Created by David Simon (The Wire, Generation Kill and The Corner) and Eric Overmyer (St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire), the Peabody-winning drama series TREME follows the lives of citizens of New Orleans in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

First, the people came back. Then, the crime. Now, more than two years after the near death of a great city, the money is starting to arrive, which would sound like a solution if this were some place other than New Orleans, and this was some other era but America at the millennium.

For the people of New Orleans, even the promises of redevelopment come with strings attached, and every dollar that shows up – whether from government disaster relief, or from venture capital, or even from those seeking to remake New Orleans in the wake of Katrina – carries with it new dynamics and new risks. National interest has waned, moving on to the next headline, but those who know and love the Crescent City have no choice. They must find their way back to what matters in the life of their city. However, little of what they can bring to bear yields a quick result, and nothing about New Orleans – its government, its police department and courtrooms, its school system – works as it should. Nothing is easy.

In the end, their only weapons are community. And culture.

The ensemble cast of TREME includes: Wendell Pierce as Antoine Batiste; Khandi Alexander as LaDonna Batiste-Williams; Clarke Peters as Albert Lambreaux; Rob Brown as Delmond Lambreaux; Steve Zahn as Davis McAlary; Kim Dickens as Janette Desautel; Melissa Leo as Toni Bernette; Lucia Micarelli as Annie Tee; Michiel Huisman as Sonny; David Morse as Terry Colson; Jon Seda as Nelson Hidalgo; India Ennenga as Sofia Bernette; and new cast member Chris Coy as L.P. Everett.

In addition to Simon and Overmyer, Nina K. Noble, George Pelecanos and Carolyn Strauss serve as executive producers. Anthony Hemingway is co-executive producer and Joseph Incaprera is producer. Along with Simon and Overmyer, the writing staff includes George Pelecanos, Lolis Eric Elie, Jordan Hirsch and noted food writer and author Anthony Bourdain (“Kitchen Confidential”). Other writers include Chris Yakaitis, Mari Kornhauser, Jen Ralston, Chris Offutt, Chris Rose, Micah Kibodeaux and Tom Piazza. Directors this season include Tim Robbins, Adam Davidson, Ernest Dickerson, Alex Hall, Anthony Hemingway, Jim McKay and Roxann Dawson.

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For more information contact:

Luke Morrison                                                                        
Publicity Manager, Sky Atlantic HD                               
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Email: luke.morrison@bskyb.com                      

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Notes to Editors:

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