NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Television writer-producer Eric Overmyer, a co-creator of HBO’s post-Katrina New Orleans drama “Treme,” has died at age 74 after an illness, according to an entertainment industry news site.
Overmyer died Monday (March 16), according to a report in Deadline.com. The report did not cite a specific cause of death.
According to Deadline, Overmyer began his career as a TV writer on “St. Elsewhere.” He later joined the writing staff of the NBC series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” a Baltimore-set crime drama based on a book by former Baltimore Sun crime reporter David Simon…