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'WIRE' VETS BACK ON HBO IN NEW PILOT: Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters reunite with writer David Simon for post-Katrina series.
*The creator of HBO's "The Wire" has tapped alumni Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters to star in his new pilot for the cable channel, a drama set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
"Treme," from writer David Simon, chronicles the rebuilding of New Orleans through the eyes of local musicians.
Pierce will play Antoine Batiste, an accomplished jazz trombonist who is now scratching for gigs, trying to support a live-in girlfriend and a new baby, while still carrying a torch for a failed marriage to Ladonna Batiste.
Khandi Alexander, a vet of Simon's HBO series "The Corner," is in final negotiations to play Ladonna, the mother of Antoine's two children, who is single-handedly keeping her bar afloat.
Peters will play Albert Lambreaux, a big chief of the White Feather Nation trying to bring the tribe's members home.
"Treme" takes its title from an area in New Orleans.
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