Showing 61 - 75 of 75 articles tagged "David Simon"

• Posted Friday 2/09/18 at 8:57PM EST

  Reg E. Cathey dies: The Wire star won an Emmy for House of Cards

  Cathey, 59, played Frank Underwood’s favorite  D.

• Posted Tuesday 2/06/18 at 11:36PM EST

  Read an excerpt from The Wire’s oral history book

  Jonathan Abrams’ All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire comes out Feb.

• Posted Tuesday 1/16/18 at 1:35PM EST

  The Wire’s David Simon plans to adapt Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America for TV

  Simon confirmed plans for a six-part miniseries that he’s shopping to networks.

• Posted Thursday 1/11/18 at 2:57PM EST

  The Deuce’s David Simon: We had no problems with James Franco

  “I’m still reading it the same as everyone else, trying to discern what is or isn’t there,” The Deuce co-creator...

• Posted Friday 1/05/18 at 11:08PM EST

  Lena Waithe’s The Chi is being compared to The Wire, but it has more in common with Shameless

  The Showtime series also has a lot in common with The Wire creator David Simon's acclaimed HBO series Treme, says...

• Posted Tuesday 1/02/18 at 7:20AM EST

  David Simon offered to apologize for killing Omar on The Wire in exchange for big-money political donations

  The Wire creator’s New Year’s Eve stunt aimed to raise money for Democratic candidates.

• Posted Monday 10/30/17 at 9:37PM EDT

  The Deuce concludes Season 1 looking like The Wire’s “shaggy, debauched sibling”

  HBO ’70s porn drama, says Willa Paskin, “provides a panoramic view of all the ways women were exploited at the...

• Posted Friday 10/27/17 at 10:04PM EDT

  HBO’s The Deuce is really a show about gentrification

  David Simon’s 1970s-set porn industry drama shows how the grit of Times Square formed the seeds for gentrification.

• Posted Thursday 10/26/17 at 10:17PM EDT

  David Simon recalls when Fats Domino filmed a cameo on HBO’s Treme

  The late rock ’n’ roll pioneer, who died this week at 89, originally agreed to do a cameo, but not...

• Posted Monday 10/02/17 at 8:13PM EDT

  Maggie Gyllenhaal is the real star of The Deuce

  The women so far have been the most interesting part of David Simon’s 1970s porn drama, with Gyllenhaal’s Candy leading...

• Posted Monday 9/25/17 at 1:26PM EDT

  The Deuce is chock full of HBO alumni

  Many actors on the ‘70s porn drama have appeared in previous HBO projects, from The Sopranos to True Blood to...

• Posted Tuesday 9/19/17 at 4:13PM EDT

  HBO renews The Deuce for Season 2

  “Everyone involved with this project is genuinely grateful to HBO for the chance to take the narrative where it needs...

• Posted Tuesday 9/12/17 at 3:42PM EDT

  PaleyFest is hosting an Oz reunion

  Tom Fontana will be joined by Edie Falco, Lee Tergesen, Terry Kinney and Eamonn Walker, but Christopher Meloni, J.

• Posted Friday 9/08/17 at 11:02PM EDT

  HBO’s The Deuce is no exercise in misplaced nostalgia — unlike Vinyl, it refuses to glamorize ’70s New York

  “If nothing else, The Deuce shows the ’70s as a hell that no one should want to return to, even...

• Posted Thursday 8/24/17 at 6:15PM EDT

  HBO will make David Simon’s The Deuce pilot available Friday

  The ‘70s porn series can be previewed on HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO On Demand weeks before its September 10th...