
Nine weeks of therapy wasn't enough for HBO. The network has decided to
renew In Treatment for a second season.
The show, which stars Gabriel Byrne as a therapist, is one of the more unusual programs to appear on HBO in recent years.

HBO's intriguing — but not for the commitment-phobic — nightly series,
In Treatment, isn't exactly an overnight sensation. The show's premiere last week got
the lowest numbers for an HBO series premiere ever. But maybe it's not quite time to panic yet, considering all the other ways HBO is making In Treatment available to HBO subscribers and non-subscribers alike.

If the
writers' strike has left a void where your TiVo queue used to be,
In Treatment is coming along to fill it up. Starting tonight, the HBO series kicks off its rather intense schedule, airing for a half-hour a night, five nights a week.
Gabriel Byrne stars as psychotherapist Paul Weston, and each half-hour installment focuses on a session with a different patient.

When I first heard about HBO's
In Treatment, which premieres later this month, I thought it sounded like it could be
a little too intense. The show will air one half-hour episode each weekday for nine weeks — a total of 45 episodes. But now with the
writers' strike in full effect, I'm actually excited about so much Treatment; after all, what else am I going to be watching?
The show follows a therapist named Paul, played by Gabriel Byrne, through a week of clients — one on Mondays, one on Tuesdays, and so on.

I'm excited about In Treatment, the forthcoming HBO show starring Gabriel Byrne as a psychotherapist who is in therapy himself — but it's going to take over my life. See, HBO recently
released its schedule for the show, and it's ... intense.