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A complex, impeccably acted crime drama set in Baltimore that follows the thread of a single police investigation, from the perspectives of both law-enforcement officials and the criminals they're pursuing. The Peabody-winning series was created by David Simon (`The Corner'), whose richly layered plotlines focused on the city's illegal drug trade in the first season before expanding in scope for the second to include corruption on the waterfront.
  • The Complete Classic Get Smart, Deadwood & The Wire! | DVD News | 9/4/2008
    New releases announced today, September 4:Get Smart - The Complete Series (1965) will be coming out December 9 Deadwood - The Complete Series will be coming out December 9 The Wire - The Complete Series will be coming out December 9 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items. read more
  • The Wire Actress Charged with Drug Possession | Today's News: Our Take | 8/22/2008
    Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who played a killer on HBO's critically acclaimed The Wire, was arrested on minor drug charges on Wednesday.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pearson was charged after police went to her home – where they found two cigars filled with suspected marijuana – in Northeast Baltimore to pick her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in the Sept. 16 murder trial of Steven Lashley. Police said Pearson "witnessed Lashley stab three men, killing one, during an argument in 2005."Considering The Wire was known for its brutally realistic portrayal of drug and gang activities in Baltimore, for this actress, the truth may actually be stranger than fiction.Though police have the right to detain her until Lashey’s trial, she has only been charged with one count of drug possession. – Erin FoxRelated• Casting News about The Wire's David Simon's New Show read more
  • Pilot News: CSI: Miami Vet Heads to the Big Easy | Today's News: Our Take | 8/7/2008
    David Simon, the mastermind behind The Wire — which some critics and a small-but-loyal band of fans consider among the best TV shows ever — has recruited a few familiar faces to his new HBO pilot, Treme.Khandi Alexander (medical examiner Alexx Woods on CSI: Miami) is in "final negotiations" to play a mother of two on the drama about life in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Alexander may return to CSI:Miami as a guest star in the future.Treme — whose title comes from the name of a Big Easy neighborhood famous for its music and musicians — will also star Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters, both of whom played detectives on The Wire. Pierce's Treme character, Antoine Batiste, is a jazz trombonist struggling to find work — while still pining after Alexander's Ladonna, his former wife. — Nina Hämmerling Smith read more
  • Mad Men (and Funny Tina Fey) at the TCA Awards | Matt Roush | 7/21/2008
    In case you hadn’t heard, AMC’s Mad Men is not only a hit with the Emmy voters (the most nominated drama this year, with 16) but it’s a bona fide critics’ darling, walking away with three Television Critics Association Awards over the weekend at the 24th annual ceremony in Beverly Hills. Mad Men won for new program, outstanding achievement in drama and program of the year, prompting Emmy-nominated co-star John Slattery to quip (during one of the show’s several acceptance speeches), “How glad I am that the message of smoking, drinking and whoring Mad Men puts across has registered with the TCAs.”Jon Hamm, also an Emmy nominee, thanked reality shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Flavor of Love, Rock of Love (all three seasons) and Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader “for pushing the envelope so far that way that there was a place kind of on this side for us to sneak in.”HBO’s epic John Adams miniseries won two awards, for Paul... read more
  • Something has been weighing ... | Matt Roush | 7/21/2008
    Question: Something has been weighing on me regarding the Emmys ignoring The Wire in years past, but the most recent nominations just confirmed in my eyes. I can't help but compare the treatment of Mad Men to that of The Wire. I love Mad Men, and now that The Wire has finished its run, it's easily the best show still on TV. However, it is rather curious how it took them no time to embrace Mad Men, yet they had no trouble ignoring one of the most acclaimed shows in TV history for five years. Both shows are low-rated cable dramas that received massive critical buzz. One could even reasonably claim that The Wire had an industry advantage — it was on a network with more credibility and even had more viewers than Mad Men, as impossible as that may seem. One has to conclude that what made the academy acknowledge one show and not another is a matter of content (or at least perception of content), and when you go there, you go into territory that is considerably ugly. You have to start ... read more

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THE WIRE Set Visit in Charity Auction
We are a non-profit organization (theBroadcaster.com) hosting anonline auction since 1996 as a fundraiser.We have just added:* Set Visit to THE WIRE (Visit the set, meet the cast, take... read more
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new podcast: The Wire Season 4 in 20 with Driis Speaking On Stringer
new episode of Light On Light Through- "The Wire Season 4 with Driis Speaking On Stringer"has Idris Elba's new rap record, in which he talks about Stringer, and Idris's plans for the... read more
Posted by PaulLev Dec 10, 2006 10:02 PM
podcast about The Wire Without Stringer
Check out Episode 5 of my Light On Light Through podcast - The Wire Without Stringer - featuring Idris Elba's (Stringer Bell) new recording "Johnny Was"... Episode 7 has an e-mail from... read more
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Second post attempt; hope this works. Things seemed to be back to normal when the show opened with Snoop buying a nail gun at a Home-Depot-like store, handing too much cash to the salesman,... read more
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Premise: A complex, impeccably acted crime drama set in Baltimore that follows the thread of a single police investigation, from the perspectives of both law-enforcement officials and the criminals they're pursuing. The Peabody-winning series was created by David Simon (`The Corner'), whose richly layered plotlines focused on the city's illegal drug trade in the first season before expanding in scope for the second to include corruption on the waterfront.

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