In Treatment Will Return For Third Season On HBO

HBO has renewed In Treatment for a third season. The show will begin production in New York in early 2010 for a premiere later in the year. Gabriel Byrne is set to return as Dr. Paul Weston, with casting on the other roles expected to begin shortly. Anya Epstein and Danny Futterman are joining the therapy-themed drama as executive producers/co-showrunners. That follows the July departure of Warren Leight, who served as executive producer/showrunner on the second season of the show, which earned three Emmy nominations.

Also complicating the pickup decision was the fact the Israeli series on which the HBO show is based only ran for two seasons, so a third season had to be written from scratch.