HBO sets five-day-a-week, 45-part series
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I think someone could probably write a graduate thesis on how HBO figured out how to schedule its latest series, which premieres in January.
HBO announced this week that a totally logistically complex series, In Treatment, stars Gabriel Byrne as a psychotherapist and premieres Jan. 28 at 9:30 p.m.
This is how it’ll go: New episodes air each night, Monday through Friday, at 9:30 p.m. The same patient returns on the same day each week; Byrne’s patients will be played by Josh Charles and Embeth Davidtz (a couple, Jake and Amy), Melissa George (Laura), Blair Underwood (Alex) and Mia Wasikowska (Sophie).
HBO describes Byrne’s character, Paul, as “a taciturn but effective psychotherapist who isn’t quite the level-headed source of wisdom his patients think he is.”
Each new episode each week will be preceded at 9 p.m. by the previous week’s episode, to catch up.
The shows will also air on HBO Signature in “real time,” i.e. the times and days of the patients’ appointments:
• Monday, 9 a.m., Laura
• Tuesday, 10 a.m., Alex
• Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sophie
• Thursday, 6 p.m., Jake and Amy
• Friday, 7 p.m., Paul sees his own therapist, Dr. Gina Toll, played by Dianne Wiest.
HBO2 also will play the show in other hours on the same days and ever Saturday and Sunday, they’ll be shown in blocks.
The show’s got some pedigree, beyond the cast, with these executive producers:
• Rodrigo Garcia, who’s directed episodes of Big Love and Six Feet Under
• Hagai Levi, who created the Israeli series this one’s based on, called BeTipul
• Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg, who also exec prod Entourage
Associated Press photo by Aaron Harris
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