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Friday, August 8, 2008 | 9:26am
Creator of ‘The Wire’ Taps Show’s Alumni For New HBO Pilot About Post-Katrina New Orleans
Peters and Pierce will star in the new drama about a jazz musician struggling with the N.O. rebuilding
David Simon, the man who brought you HBO’s “The Wire” has enlisted alumni Clarke Peters (Detective Lester Freamon) and Wendell Pierce (Det. Bunk) for his HBO pilot for a drama set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
The potential series called “Treme,” which is named after an area in New Orleans will follow the lives of local New Orleans musicians as the city rebuilds the gulf coast town. Pierce has been slated to play “Antoine Batiste”, an experienced but now struggling jazz trombonist who is trying to support a live-in girlfriend and a new baby, while still in love with ex-wife, “Ladonna Batiste.” Pierce if you’ll remember, is a New Orleans native persoanlly effected by Katrina and was a mainstay in Spike Lee’s “When the Levee’s Broke” documentary.
Khandi Alexander (HBO’s “The Corner”) is not confirmed but scheduled to play Ladonna, Antoine’s baby mother of two who is a local bar owner. Peters will play “Albert Lambreaux”, a big chief of the White Feather Nation who is trying to organize his dispersed tribe members.
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f that, if it ain’t the whole cast, I don’t wanna hear it
LMAO! I feel you…sounds like it could be interesting and being on HBO could be key. Its still a pilot so who knows if it even makes it to air.