Showing 31 - 45 of 75 articles tagged "David Simon"

• Posted Wednesday 10/30/19 at 10:04PM EDT

  David Simon doubles down on his defense of keeping James Franco on The Deuce

  Simon responded to backlash over his comments to Rolling Stone defending Franco and explaining why he thinks The Deuce star's...

• Posted Wednesday 10/30/19 at 1:49PM EDT

  David Simon defends continuing to work with James Franco on The Deuce amid sexual misconduct allegations

  "I’m absolutely proud that we continued to do the work, that James did it with us, and that we executed...

• Posted Tuesday 10/29/19 at 3:15PM EDT

  The Deuce's "cheesy" finale undermined the entire series

  In the David Simon HBO pornography drama's nostalgic final moments, "I felt a pang of betrayal from a series that...

• Posted Tuesday 10/29/19 at 5:28AM EDT

  David Simon on The Deuce series finale: "We literally wrote the last scene first"

  "The last scene of the show was the only one we had written in our heads when we started the...

• Posted Friday 10/25/19 at 11:54PM EDT

  How The Deuce created a 1980s Times Square for its final season

  Production and art director Scott Dougan says inactive Flickr accounts and New York Public Library's archives proved crucial in bringing...

• Posted Wednesday 9/11/19 at 10:32PM EDT

  Desire has left The Deuce: David Simon's HBO drama on the sex industry has lost all its curiosity about what humans want

  "In its third and final season, which began on Monday, The Deuce is racing toward its bleak and inevitable coda,"...

• Posted Monday 9/09/19 at 7:10PM EDT

  The Deuce's time jumps suggest it has a grander endgame in mind

  David Simon and George Pelecanos’s drama about Times Square, the sex trade and capitalism "seems to be fast-forwarding through history...

• Posted Saturday 9/07/19 at 3:40AM EDT

  A decade after The Wire, David Simon continues to prove he's one of the edgiest and most dynamic showrunners in the TV game

  Unlike HBO's other legendary Davids (Sopranos creator David Chase, Deadwood creator David Milch and Curb Your Enthusiam's Larry David), David...

• Posted Tuesday 7/30/19 at 4:24AM EDT

  The Wire's Dominic West joins David Simon in slamming President Trump over his anti-Baltimore rant

  “What would a lonely, hysterical neurotic who uses hand cleanser all day understand about a vibrant community like Baltimore?" the...

• Posted Monday 7/29/19 at 9:52AM EDT

  The Wire creator David Simon calls President Trump a "racist moron" over his slamming of Baltimore

  The president attacked Democratic Rep.

• Posted Wednesday 4/10/19 at 1:05PM EDT

  Winona Ryder and John Turturro to lead the HBO cast of David Simon's The Plot Against America

  The six-part miniseries based on Philip Roth’s alternate history book revolving around the political rise of Charles Lindbergh will star...

• Posted Tuesday 3/19/19 at 5:56PM EDT

  David Simon blasts his own agency for packaging Homicide without his consent

  In an obscenity-laden blog post, The Wire creator explained how it has come to his attention that CAA packaged his...

• Posted Monday 3/11/19 at 10:06PM EDT

  The Wire's David Simon recalls telling Idris Elba he was going to be a big star

  Simon and Elba went on an emotional walk shortly after the actor learned that his Wire character, Stringer Bell, was...

• Posted Friday 3/01/19 at 11:32PM EST

  Richard Plepler's exit is a "definitive break" with HBO's history

  The HBO CEO and chairman's departure "marks the end of what is likely the single most consequential run in the...

• Posted Thursday 11/08/18 at 1:48PM EST

  HBO orders David Simon miniseries The Plot Against America, based on the Philip Roth novel

  Simon and his The Wire collaborator Ed Burns are reteaming for the six-part alternate history series that imagines what would've...