Showing 61 - 75 of 87 articles tagged "The Wire"

• Posted Saturday 4/14/18 at 12:07AM EDT

  After The Wire, some of its stars had trouble finding acting work because they weren't viewed as actors

  "It was so authentic, people thought we weren't actors," says Gbenga Akinnagbe in a Los Angeles Times article on the...

• Posted Monday 4/09/18 at 1:45PM EDT

  The Wire's David Simon will next tackle the Spanish Civil War

  Simon and his literary team of George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane are working on A Dry Run, a six-episode miniseries...

• Posted Friday 3/09/18 at 11:05PM EST

  The Wire ended 10 years ago today

  The fifth and final season finale of the acclaimed HBO series aired on March 9, 2008, finishing up its most...

• Posted Friday 3/09/18 at 2:00PM EST

  The Wire's Wood Harris to star on ABC's The Mission pilot

  He'll play a cop on the proposed series about cops on the beat.

• Posted Friday 2/16/18 at 2:13PM EST

  John C. Reilly could've played McNulty on The Wire

  David Simon revealed how Reilly was almost cast in Jonathan Abrams' new oral history book All the Pieces Matter, which...

• Posted Tuesday 2/13/18 at 1:51PM EST

  Read an oral history of The Wire's five-minute "F*ck" scene

  The excerpt is from Jonathan Abrams' new book on the HBO series, All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of...

• Posted Monday 2/12/18 at 2:12PM EST

  HBO and David Simon prevent a Wire actor's plans to put on “The Wire: A Stage Play"

  Norris Davis, who appeared on seven episodes of the HBO series, had been billing his play as a spinoff of...

• 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 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 Friday 12/01/17 at 5:37AM EST

  Michael K. Williams says he’ll never get tired of people bringing up The Wire

  “Why would I get tired of people talking about The Wire? No, no, no, no, no, it humbles me,” Williams...

• Posted Tuesday 11/21/17 at 9:19PM EST

  25 comedy writers pick the most influential TV episodes

  For The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr, it was an episode of The Wire that inspired his comedy.

• Posted Monday 11/20/17 at 11:08PM EST

  The Wire alum Sonja Sohn’s Baltimore Rising HBO documentary is optimistic, not delusional

  The 95-minute film, premiering Monday, takes viewers inside the Freddie Gray police brutality case, the subsequent riots and their aftermath.