The Television Critics Association HBO Executive Session was held yesterday. HBO Co-President Richard Plepler and Programming President Michael Lombardo answered questions regarding the upcoming HBO programming, including Mildred Pierce. A clip was also screened for the press and it sounds like the material was impressive.

From HitFix.com:

Mildred Pierce looks handsome and like the winner of many, many Emmys.

Lombardo tells us that Mildred Pierce has finished shooting. Todd Haynes has been on a two-week break and will begin editing now. HBO is eying March/April of next spring for a premiere. Lombardo says that it’s a “relevant look at a woman struggling to survive in a period of economic distress,” that the Cain novel feels “remarkably modern.” His own memories of the film are of it being campy and dated. He says that the miniseries will *not* be noir-ish in the way the film is.

Also, check out this newly released HBO press release, courtesy of The Futon Critic. It states that Mildred Pierce will be released in March 2011.

2011 will see an impressive roster of award-winning talent come to HBO as HBO Films and HBO Miniseries present two new films and a much anticipated miniseries, and production starts in February on a period biopic in San Francisco. Among their illustrious awards, the actors and filmmakers associated with these projects have garnered four Oscars(R) and 28 Oscar(R) nominations, eight Golden Globes and 38 Golden Globe nominations, and 13 Emmys(R) and 49 Emmy(R) nominations, not to mention recognition from such guilds as SAG, DGA, PGA and WGA.

“We are particularly proud of the filmmakers who have come together around Mildred Pierce,” says Kary Antholis, president, HBO Miniseries. “Todd Haynes, Kate Winslet and the rest of the team are creating a miniseries in five parts that is at once lush, appealing and searingly resonant in the current American economic landscape.”

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From On Location Vacations:

Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet, is filming around Myrtle Ave between 68th and 70th Sts in Glendale, Queens. (Thanks Jerry)

Check out new, gorgeous photos of Kate Winslet filming Mildred Pierce in Merrick, courtesy of The Herald.

HBO is remaking the 1945 classic Mildred Pierce, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet now playing the lead. And the film’s being shot, in part, on Henry Street in Merrick.

The film, set during the Great Depression, follows a divorced, single mother, Mildred Pierce, who decides to open a restaurant, which causes strain in her relationship with her elder daughter, Veda.

The Herald stopped by the set this week to grab a few shots of Winslet & Co. on set.

Yesterday Kate Winslet was photographed on the set of Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce in New York. She is wearing a stunning gold floor-length dress, silver pumps and hair on period accurate finger waves. Very, very beautiful!

Getting back to work on Mildred Pierce, Kate Winslet was spotted on the set of the HBO miniseries in Queens, New York earlier today, May 26. She was decked out in full wardrobe while shooting scenes for the Todd Haynes directed project.