When I interviewed members of the production crew for Treme, all were guarded when speaking about what would happen if the show got to a second season. Two days after the series premiered, HBO announced that it had picked it up for a second season. According to HBO president of programming Michael Lombardo:

I can’t think of another show that is more emblematic of what we aspire to be as a network than Treme. In the tradition of The Wire, David Simon and Eric Overmeyer have embarked on an exploration of the soul of one of the world’s most unique cities through the lives of an exquisitely crafted cast of characters.