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HBO gets more time 'In Treatment'
Gabriel Byrne drama set for second season
By CYNTHIA LITTLETON
HBO has officially greenlighted a sophomore season of drama "In
Treatment."
Series stars Gabriel Byrne as a psychotherapist Paul Weston, and
revolves entirely around his sessions with patients and his own
therapy appointments with shrink Gina Toll, played by Dianne Wiest.
HBO had been widely expected to greenlight a second season of the show
but it took some time for the paybox to cut a fresh pact with Byrne,
whose initial deal only covered a single season, biz insiders said.
"In Treatment," based on an Israeli TV skein of the same name, bowed
on HBO early this year as an adventurous experiment in programming 43
segs as a half-hour drama strip Monday-Friday. It is expected that the
skedding pattern will be tweaked for the second season, given that
ratings for the Monday-Friday premiere telecasts were not too strong.
HBO is expected to order around 35 episodes for season two.
"In Treatment" is also due for a fresh influx of sup****ting cast
members, as most of Weston's patients from season one will not be
returning other than possibly for brief appearances in a handful of
episodes. An HBO rep said deals with new and potential returning cast
members were still being worked out.
Production of "In Treatment" will move from L.A. to Gotham, where
Byrne lives, when lensing begins again in the fall. Series has added
an exec producer/showrunner in Warren Leight, a New York-based
playwright who has spent the past few seasons as exec producer of
NBC/USA Network's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
Also returning as exec producers are Rodrigo Garcia, who developed the
U.S. adaptation; Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg, whose Leverage
production ****ngle produces HBO's "Entourage"; and Hagai Levi, creator
of the original Israeli series.
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