It looks like the doctor is out — for now. HBO has cancelled In Treatment after three seasons on the air. However, the cable channel may be interested in keeping the series going in another form.
Starring Gabriel Byrne as Dr. Paul Weston, In Treatment first aired in January 2008 and ran five nights a week. That didn’t perform as well as expected so it was reduced to two episodes twice a week for seasons two and three. While In Treatment has been a favorite with some critics, the ratings haven’t kept up. The season three finale, which aired in December, attracted just 253,000 viewers.
Byrne noted that the role was quite demanding in that it required him to memorize large amounts of dialogue in a short amount of time. He was nominated for two Emmy Awards and appeared in all 121 episodes of the series. Dianne Wiest won a supporting actress Emmy and Glynn Turman won in the guest actor category. In 2009, In Treatment won the WGA Award for best new series.
Though In Treatment may be done as a regular series, HBO is interested in a new incarnation. A statement from HBO states, “It’s true that we have no plans to continue with In Treatment as previously formatted. However, we are in continued conversations with the executive producers to find another way to continue telling these rich stories.”
What do you think? Are you sorry that there won’t be a fourth season of In Treatment? Would you like to see it continue in another form?
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Im really sorry that ratings can have such a devastating effect on education and culture. Intreatment was a deep and compelling series of art and culture.
I love this show. I find it so real, with the kind of depth that few movies or tv series have. I would love to see it continue. It is my favorite form of entertainment ever!!
Please bring it back!
Professor Joyce Steinman-Babik
Long Island NY
It is a shame that this riveting drama about broken lives will no longer continue. I have recently discovered this compelling show and can’t get enough. Perhaps viewership is down because HBO produces it and the public at large is not exposed to it. Instead, the commercial networks choose to present crap the likes of reality shows. Too bad!
Hey, Mark Wahlberg: please use your influence to find another network that is willing to spend the $ on quality TV.
the dialog and insight was intellectually stimulating. A rarity for TV
This show holds me riveted. I don’t want to miss a single word. I either see myself or other people I know and it’s not only an entertainment type show, but an educational one as well. We really need to find out who we are and this show is a tool that I would use. Please, Please bring it back ! !
In Treatment is intelligent television par excellence. Viewers deserve such rich programming. It represents the dramatization of modern, urban humanity, it presents the whole gamut of human problems, emotions, and in this, it is as close to Shakespeare as anything we are ever likely to see on TV or on the stage. Please continue this outstanding show, with Gabriel Byrne in the role of his life, in some form. Adults, intelligent adults, need these stories in order to understand ourselves and each other. It is the perfect antidote to the mindlessness of shows such as NCIS, etc, etc.
please bring it back! i loved it and i have purchased all 3 seasons on dvd. i was so sorry to read that it was canceled. we need good shows like thate one was.
No more In Treatment, no more HBO in our household 🙁
Please bring In Treatment back! It is the only tv I watch and the only reason I would get HBO!
With all due respect, Please reconsider the decision was made in regard to the show (In treatment). It is ingenious work from all sides; the stories, the scenario, the act and art, and the quality of the material altogether. If the viewers number is low then lets not blame the show itself but the viewers standards unfortunately went low.
It is rare to see anything on TV as well written, well acted and as thoughtful as IN TREATMENT. It provides real insight into human behavior, relationships and the things that motivate us to make the choices we make. The power of good television is in the telling of stories that enlighten, inform as well as entertain. In Treatment has all these qualities. Don’t force the audience of this show to endure yet another offering of inferior quality. We may be a smaller audience, but we matter, too.
Please bring it back…it is the reason i have HBO…I just love Gabriel Byrne. The format is just perfect, do not change it!!!!!
Please bring back In Treatment….wonderful and thought provoking series…its nice to have adult programming in the evening hours; takes the mystery out of therapy and also shows the human in therapist. It shows cable programming can be entertaining and high minded…
I just re-subscribed to HBO because I want to see Veep but also because I thought In Treatment was coming back. Sorely disappointed to hear that it’s been cancelled! One of the very best HBO productions, wouldn’t miss it for the world when we were lucky enough to be able to watch. Gabriel Byrne was fantastic as was the quality of the show and the rest of the casts. I hope they reconsider.
Please bring In Treatment back, but only if it is just as fabulous as the first three series. Gabriel Byrne is beautiful, and flawed, and the stories have been riveting.