For Your Consideration: The Road to the Emmys

HBO provided members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with their Emmy campaign box, including all five episodes from Week One of In Treatment, Season Two. Nominations deadline is June 26, 2009 at 5:00 PM. Emmy nominees will be announced on July 16, 2009 at 5:35 AM. You have been […]

Interview with Warren Leight, “In Treatment” Showrunner

Alan Sepinwall interviewed Warren Leight, the showrunner for Season Two of In Treatment as a parting gift in his usual weekly analysis of the series: We’ve come to the end of season two of In Treatment, and I’m going to do something a little different at the end. Rather than […]

Getting Literary: Byrne Opens Festival in Ireland

Writers’ Week in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, the annual literary festival, will be opened by Gabriel Byrne on May 27. Since it’s inception in 1970 Listowel Writers’ Week has been recognised as the primary event in Ireland’s literary calendar. North Kerry is the birthplace of many of Ireland’s most prominent […]

The Irish Arts Center Honors Jim Sheridan

On May 11, 2009, there was a cocktail reception honoring Oscar-nominated Director Jim Sheridan at the Irish Arts Center in New York City. Honorary Chairs included Ambassador Niall Burgess, Gabriel Byrne, Terry George, The Honorable Christine Quinn and Maureen White, along with Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall, who all honored Oscar-nominated […]

“In Treatment” Has Arrived

In Treatment, the HBO series we all love for its examination of therapy in America and one therapist in particular, portrayed by Gabriel Byrne, has now entered the American political zeitgeist. In an article concerning the torture problem currently being examined in the press in great detail, the reporter uses LBJ’s well-known […]