HBO’s running a new featurette showing the first footage from three of their new shows coming in 2010. It leads off with some info on the next season of Big Love and also mentions at the end that Bored to Death is returning for a second season.
Treme is the new drama from David Simon (The Wire) and Eric Overmyer. It’s follows several characters in the Treme district of New Orleans as they rebuild their city and lives following Hurricane Katrina. The cast includes Wendell Pierce, Khandi Alexander, Clarke Peters, Melissa Leo, Steve Zahn, Rob Brown and Kim Dickens. Treme premieres on HBO in April.
Boardwalk Empire is the new period drama from Terence Winter (second most prolific writer on The Sopranos) about the rise of Atlantic City during the Prohibition era, and all the corruption that came with it. Martin Scorsese directed the pilot episode. The show has a large and impressive cast featuring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Michael Kenneth Williams, Stephen Graham, Aleksa Palladino, Paul Sparks, Paz de la Huerta, Dabney Coleman, Vincent Piazza, Anthony Laciura and Shea Whigham. Boardwalk Empire doesn’t yet have a specific release window.
How to Make It in America is from the producers of Entourage and is somewhat similar with a group of young men searching for success in a big city, although this begins in the earlier stages and takes place in the New York art scene. The show stars Bryan Greenberg, Victor Rasuk, Shannyn Sossamon, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Lake Bell, Luis Guzman and James Ransone. It also doesn’t yet have a specific release window in 2010.
HBO is also premiering it’s Band of Brothers conceptual follow-up called The Pacific in March.
I’m particularly excited for Treme and Boardwalk Empire given their creative pedigrees and fantastic casts. I’m very psyched for some new HBO dramas. How to Make It in America doesn’t grab me as a concept, but then, neither did Entourage and that provided a good amount of fun, at least for a while.
