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Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Fri, Sep 4

Lippman's spouse, as it happens, is David Simon, creator of the TV series The Wire, itself an important example for students of telephone sociology. ...

The Wire re-up: season three, episode three – drug use and dead ...

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Mon, Aug 31

Tosha's death, catching a stray one smack in the head from Dante after Omar orders his crew to "bang out" yet another Barksdale stash-house, is the second ...

Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Cameron?

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Sat, Aug 29

watched much of it, I have seen every episode of all five seasons of The Wire, the compelling HBO series about drugs, gangs and politics in Baltimore. ... and more »

The Wire's David Simon: pay-TV has freed drama from ad pressures

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Fri, Aug 28

BBC News The Wire creator David Simon said pay-TV had rescued drama producers from the need to satisfy advertisers, which he said had destroyed the art of ... Wire writer says adverts kill TVBBC News Unravelling The WireThe Australian Murder and drama take it to the wireThe Herald

Channel 4 series to follow real crime inquiries

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Wed, Aug 26

The Sun terrestrial premieres of HBO's vampire series True Blood – from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball – and Generation Kill, from the creators of The Wire. ... The Queen through the ages is star of Channel4 autumnThis is London all 31 news articles »

The Wire re-up: season three, episode two – twin towers

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Tue, Aug 25

A muscle guarding the Barksdale stash, soon to be taken out by Omar, describes how some "white motherfucker and his wife" came looking for the "po' house", ...

An A to Z of the MediaGuardian International Television Festival

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Sun, Aug 23

appearances from the former Mr Katie Price, Peter Andre; EastEnders hardman turned documentary, um, hardman Ross Kemp; and The Wire creator David Simon. ...

The Wire re-up: season three, episode one – String theory

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Mon, Aug 17

Bodie and Poot stand by and watch as the drug-ridden sentries of the west side crash to the ground like fallen soldiers, swapping stories of sex and rites ...

Denise van Outen: 'I wanted to be Cilla!'

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Tue, Aug 11

Not having ever seen The Wire, in which Peters plays Lester Freamon(the detective who makes doll's house furniture on the side), Van Outen has some good ... Denise Van Outen's “hidden shallows” belie her depthsEdinburgh Festivals all 10 news articles »

Edinburgh unveils book festival lineup

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Thu, Jun 11

novel to the book which made his name, Generation X) and work from the writers of the hit US crime drama, The Wire, David Simon and Richard Price. ... and more »

The Wire re-up: season two, episode three

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Mon, Jun 8

UK Freamon's xenophobic outburst after the montage of clueless, non-Anglophonic ship workers chief among them. "English, motherfuckers!" Also loved Landsman's description of Freamon as displaying "tweedy impertinence". Definitely missed that one first ...

The Wire star goes from Baltimore streets to British bedpan

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link • Wed, May 13

American actor Clarke Peters mesmerised many a box set addict with his cool-as-a-cucumber-cop Lester Freamon in the HBO drama The Wire. You may have seen the show mentioned in passing on this website. Now Peters is swapping the mean streets of ...

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