TV: Newswire: David Simon wants Treme to end after four seasons

David Simon wants Treme to end after four seasons

Viewers tracking the real-life events that provide the basis for HBO’s Treme have long assumed that David Simon’s series would wrap after five seasons, passing through the redemptive arc of the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl victory in 2009, then winding up right back in the thick of natural disaster with the BP oil spill. But if that’s the case, the show will need to do some cramming to get it all in: Simon told the Times-Picayune while filming the next batch of episodes—which will pick up in 2008—that he plans to wrap up the ...