Sun Oct 19, 2008

Davis, Mahoney seek 'Treatment' By Nellie Andreeva

Hollywood Reporter
Hope Davis and John Mahoney have been tapped to co-star on the second season of HBO's drama "In Treatment." Meanwhile, Jeffrey Nordling will co-star opposite Jada Pinkett Smith in TNT's pilot "Time Heals."

"Treatment," executive produced by Warren Leight, Rodrigo Garcia, Hagai Levi, Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg and Paris Barclay, chronicles the weekly sessions of psychoanalyst Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) with several of his regular patients as well as his weekly visits to his own therapist, Gina Toll (Dianne Wiest).

Davis will play Mira, a high-powered malpractice lawyer and a former patient of Weston's who blames him for being single and childless. The actress, repped by UTA and Kipperman Management, next appears in "Synecdoche, New York."

Mahoney ("Frasier") will play Bill, a self-confident CEO who finds his life getting away from him. He is repped by ICM.

Posted on Oct 19, 08 | 10:10 pm | Permalink | In Treatment

Wed May 21, 2008

In Treatment DVD

TV SHows On DVD
Number of discs: 9
DVD Release Date: September 9, 2008

Posted on May 21, 08 | 8:48 am | Permalink | In Treatment

Sat Dec 01, 2007

In Treatment starts Jan. 28

The Futon Critic
"In Treatment" to bow on Monday, January 28 at 9:30/8:30c. The series tracks the weekly sessions between a psychotherapist named Paul (Gabriel Byrne) and his patients.

Each night then will be devoted to a specific patient - Laura (Melissa George) on Mondays, an anesthesiologist who is infatuated with the older, married Paul; Alex (Blair Underwood) on Tuesdays, a fighter pilot who's still haunted by a botched raid he was involved in years before; Sophie (Australian newcomer Mia Wasikowska) on Wednesdays, a gymnast with Olympic dreams; and a married couple (Embeth Davidtz and Josh Charles) in counseling on Thursdays; with Fridays focusing on Byrne visiting his own therapist (Dianne Wiest), a former supervisor and mentor.

Furthermore, beginning February 4, the patient's previous session will encore at 9:00/8:00c as a lead-in to the new installment at 9:30/8:30c while a marathon of all five episodes from that week will air each Sunday starting at 6:30/5:30c.

Hagai Levi, Rodrigo Garcia, Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg and Noa Tishby are the executive producers.

Posted on Dec 01, 07 | 3:45 am | Permalink | In Treatment

Thu Nov 01, 2007

In Treatment schedule set

Zap2It
If you're planning to be "In Treatment" with HBO, be warned: The schedule will be a rigorous one.

The premium-cable network has set a premiere date for its ambitious drama series, which follows a therapist named Paul (Gabriel Byrne) as he counsels several patients while undergoing psychotherapy himself. It will debut at 9:30 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 28 and run for nine weeks.

And by "nine weeks," we nine whole weeks. The half-hour show, based on an Israeli series also called "In Treatment," will run Monday through Friday, with each night devoted to one of Paul's patients. That patient's episodes will air on the same night over the course of the show's 45-episode run.

"'In Treatment' is a unique series that requires a unique scheduling strategy," says David Baldwin, head of program planning at HBO. "We are maximizing the exposure of this exciting new show in order to offer our subscribers the widest possible choice of viewing options, and the opportunity to stay engaged with the series for its entirety."

The show also stars Melissa George ("Alias"), Blair Underwood ("Dirty Sexy Money"), Mia Wasikowska, Josh Charles ("Sports Night"), Embeth Davidtz ("Junebug," "Bridget Jones's Diary") and Dianne Wiest ("Law & Order," "Dan in Real Life"), who plays Paul's doctor.

Starting with the show's second week, reruns of the previous week's episode for that day will air prior to new installments. HBO On Demand will preview the full week's worth of shows each Monday, and HBO Signature will air the episodes at the same time as the appointments for each patient: 9 a.m. Mondays for George, 10 a.m. Tuesdays for Underwood, 4 p.m. Wednesdays for Wasikowska, 6 p.m. Thursday for Davidtz and Charles and 7 p.m. Friday for Wiest.

Posted on Nov 01, 07 | 8:02 am | Permalink | In Treatment

Sat Sep 29, 2007

HBO's 'Treatment' faces challenges Steven Zeitchik

Variety
Given the subject matter of HBO's upcoming therapy drama "In Treatment," it's perhaps appropriate to ask this question of execs: How does it make them feel?
Not that the net is talking.

The pay web's most possibility-laden project of 2008 -- an adaptation of a hit Israeli skein called "B'Tipul" from the powerhouse team of Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson -- also poses some of its thorniest challenges.

In fact, it's a tricky enough enterprise that the net, despite heavy buzz, is so far declining to say how it will market and schedule the series. More...

Posted on Sep 29, 07 | 5:30 pm | Permalink | In Treatment

Mon Mar 12, 2007

Adapting Israeli T.V. Series By Penny Schwartz

Jewish Times
Some big names in Hollywood can't curb their enthusiam for a smash Israeli television series they are adapting for HBO.

They are betting the American version of "In Treatment," which was wildly popular in its first season in Israel, will captivate audiences in this country too.

Producers Mark Wahlberg, Oscar nominee for best actor in "The Departed," and Stephen Levinson, head of Leverage Management, are joining forces with Hagai Levi, creator and director of the Israeli series. Wahlberg and Levinson co-produce "Entourage," the hit HBO series.

"In Treatment," or "B'tipul" in Hebrew, is an intense, offbeat drama based on an unlikely concept for TV: a daily show featuring a fictionalized therapy session between a psychotherapist and his patients. More...

Posted on Mar 12, 07 | 6:39 pm | Permalink | In Treatment

Mon Jan 22, 2007

HBO ready for 'Road' show, 'Treatment' By Nellie Andreeva

Hollywood Reporter
HBO has picked up to series Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's one-hour comedy "12 Miles of Bad Road," starring Lily Tomlin, and the half-hour drama "In Treatment," starring Gabriel Byrne and executive produced by Mark Wahlberg.

The premium cable network has ordered 40 episodes of "Treatment," from Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson, who also executive produce HBO's "Entourage." [...]

Based on the popular and critically acclaimed Israeli series of the same name ("BeTipul" in Hebrew), "Treatment" centers on a therapist (Byrne) who is calm, smooth, insightful and nonconfrontational with his patients but turns into a testy, self-doubting individual full of barely concealed anger when he is a patient seeing his own shrink.

In the pilot stage, HBO ordered five episodes of "Treatment." The series pickup brings the total to 45 half-hours, the same as the original Israeli series. More...

Posted on Jan 22, 07 | 12:45 am | Permalink | In Treatment

Sun Nov 12, 2006

America needs to be 'in treatment' By Ruta Kupfer

Haaretz
Acting is still her first love, but Noa Tishby is also branching out these days and trying to market Israeli-made TV series in the United States

"Press PLAY, just press PLAY!" Those were the only words that crosse Noa Tishby's mind when she presented the television program "Betipul" ("In Treatment") to Stephen Levinson, her agent in Los Angeles. "Stephen is not a spiritual person. Psychology is not one of the things that interests him," she says, early one evening in a Tel Aviv restaurant, as she describes the deal she negotiated for selling the Israeli series to America's HBO channel.

After she gave Levinson a two-line description of the series, he looked at her, wrinkled up his nose and said - here she imitates his broad American accent - "Yeah... I'm not really into therapy." Tishby believed that the moment he started watching the episodes, his reservations would disappear. And so it was.

"He began to watch, and I sat on the floor. I looked at him, and I saw that he was beginning to get drawn into it. I whispered in the background: 'You can't stop watching it.' It was clear to me that the moment I was able to get them hooked on the idea of making the series in the United States, it would all work out."

That is indeed the first step in the decision to interest the prestigious television channel to purchase the rights to the Israeli series, created by Hagai Levy, Uri Sivan and Nir Bergman. It represented an unprecedented local success - in fact, a great success by any standards. Levinson heads the Leverage Management agency, which represents, among others, the cast of the series "Entourage" (aired in Israel on YES-Plus). That series is based on the life of actor Mark Wahlberg, who is also the executive producer of the U.S. production of "In Treatment." More...

Posted on Nov 12, 06 | 11:51 am | Permalink | In Treatment

Mon Oct 30, 2006

Three more 'In Treatment' for HBO By Nellie Andreeva

Hollywood Reporter
Blair Underwood, Melissa George and Oscar winner Dianne Wiest have been tapped to co-star opposite Gabriel Byrne in HBO's half-hour drama "In Treatment."

The project, based on the popular and critically acclaimed Israeli series, centers on Paul (Byrne), a therapist who is calm, smooth, insightful and nonconfrontational with his patients but becomes a testy self-doubting man full of barely concealed anger when he is a patient seeing his own shrink.

Underwood will play one of Paul's patients, a fighter pilot who suffers the effects of a botched raid he was involved in years before that killed not only he three perpetrators but three underage hostages.

George will play another patient, a resident in anesthesia at John Hopkins Hospital who is infatuated with the older, married Paul.

Wiest will play Paul's former supervisor and mentor who he goes to see for a therapy session eight years after dropping her.

Underwood, George and Wiest join previously cast Byrne, Embeth Davidtz and Mia Wasikowska.

"Treatment" is executive produced by Hagai Levi, Steve Levinson and Mark Wahlberg.

Rodrigo Garcia, who also is directing, is co-executive producing with Noa Tishby. More...

Posted on Oct 30, 06 | 7:32 am | Permalink | In Treatment

Tue Oct 03, 2006

Davidtz takes turn on couch for "Treatment" By Nellie Andreeva

Source: Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Embeth Davidtz has been cast in HBO's upcoming half-hour drama "In Treatment," which stars Gabriel Byrne as a shrink with split personalities.

In the project, based on the popular and critically acclaimed Israeli series of the same name, the therapist is calm, smooth, insightful and nonconfrontational with his patients but turns into a testy, self-doubting man barely able to conceal his rage when he is a patient seeing his own shrink.

Davidtz will play one-half of a married couple who attends couples counseling. She was in theaters last years with the acclaimed comedy-drama "Junebug," playing a fish-out-of-water urban professional.

Mark Wahlberg is serving as an executive producer; he already executive produces HBO's hipster hit "Entourage."

Posted on Oct 03, 06 | 7:32 am | Permalink | In Treatment

Sat Sep 23, 2006

In Treatment to star Byrne

TV Guide
Gabriel Byrne will star in HBO's upcoming half-hour drama "In Treatment."

The project, based on the popular and critically acclaimed Israeli series of the same name, centers on a therapist (Byrne) who is calm, smooth, insightful and nonconfrontational with his patients but turns into a testy, self-doubting man full of barely concealed anger when he is a patient seeing his own shrink.

Also cast in the drama, which has received a five-episode order, is Australian newcomer Mia Wasikowska. She will play a gymnast with dreams to go to the Olympics who is receiving psychiatric treatment.

Byrne's upcoming features include "Played" and "Jindabyne," which made their premieres on the festival circuit this year, as well as "Leningrad" and "One Missed Call."

Posted on Sep 23, 06 | 12:19 am | Permalink | In Treatment

Thu Jul 27, 2006

HBO getting the Wahlberg "Treatment" By Nellie Andreeva

Source: Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Actor Mark Wahlberg, one of the brains behind HBO hit "Entourage," will executive produce another series project for the pay cable network.

"In Treatment," a half-hour drama, centers on a therapist who is calm, smooth, insightful and nonconfrontational with his patients but turns into a testy, self-doubting individual full of barely concealed anger when he is a patient seeing his own shrink. It is based on the popular and critically acclaimed Israeli series of the same name ("BeTipul" in Hebrew).

Production on the first of five episodes is slated to begin in late August. Mexican filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives") will direct and co-executive produce.

"Entourage," based on Wahlberg's real-life experience as a hot young actor in Hollywood surrounded by his old friends, has grown into one of HBO's most popular series. It is about to begin its third season. In front of the camera, Wahlberg next appears in the features "Invincible" and "The Departed."

Posted on Jul 27, 06 | 1:29 pm | Permalink | In Treatment