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Anthony Bourdain Hired as Treme Writer

Culinary/travel badass Anthony Bourdain was recently recruited to write one of the many complex, intertwining plot lines on David Simon’s Treme. The host of the popular Travel Channel show No Reservations was a consultant for a few details of the show’s first season. For the second season, Bourdain will be writing a thread of the show focused on a woman in New Orleans, struggling to keep her small but acclaimed restaurant going during the wake of Hurricane Katrina....  read more

2010 Person of the Year in TV: David Simon

For creating the wonder of Treme and assembling the stellar talents of Melissa Leo, Kim Dickens, John Goodman, Wendell Pierece, and so many other greats to bring it to life, David Simon is Paste’s 2010 Person of the Year for TV.  read more

Writers Guild Announces 2011 Award Nominations

The Writers Guild of America announced its nominations for exceptional achievement in screenwriting in 2010. Screenplays for both Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network and Stuart Blumberg’s The Kids Are Alright were among those selected. However, several celebrated films this year including The Kings’ Speech, Winter’s Bone and Toy Story 3 did not make the cut due to the WGA’s controversial and complicated Minimum Basic Agreement....  read more

Treme Coming to DVD

The first season of HBO’s post-Katrina New Orleans drama Treme will hit stores on March 29....  read more

HBO Announces Treme Soundtrack, Live Video Performances

Treme: Music from the HBO Original Series, Season 1 will be available digitally beginning today....  read more

2010 Emmy Predictions, Picks & Snubs

On Sunday night, the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards will hosted by Late Night host Jimmy Fallon. Unfortunately, as far as we know, he won’t be bringing along his backing band The Roots. But we’ll be bringing you commentary throughout the night on our live blog. I’ll be joined by Paste publisher Nick Purdy and all of you in Twitter-land so check back on our site Sunday 8pm ET, 5pm PT. In the meantime, here are my gripes, faulty predictions and cocksure proclamations about the 2010 Primetime Emmys....  read more

Why isn't Treme Nominated for Any Music Emmys?

Good question, right?...  read more

10 TV Shows with Great Music

MTV might have dropped the word "music" from its name after all but giving up on videos, but you can still find great music in prime time. Here are the 10 TV shows with the best music.  read more

HBO Renews Tremé After One Episode

HBO certainly didn’t waste any time on its latest decision. After airing just one episode of The Wire creator David Simon’s latest endeavor, Tremé, the network went ahead and reserved a second season spot for the show....  read more

The Wire/Treme Writer David Mills: 1961-2010

Screenwriter David Mills, one of the minds behind iconic television programming such as ER, NYPD Blue and The Wire, died yesterday of a brain aneurysm in New Orleans while working on his latest endeavor, Treme (set to premiere on April 11). He was 48....  read more