The Wire

HBO"s 'The Wire' being taught at Harvard

source: streetknowledge (WordPress)

Source: NY Post Wow! My all time favorite TV show is now a case study for urban life in America. If Source: NY Post Wow! My all time favorite TV show is now a case study for urban life in America. If

Published Mon, Nov 2

ABC2 screens 'best TV show ever'

source: The Age

from left) Clarke Peters with Wendell Pierce and Dominic West in The Wire. As The Wire starts to air on ABC2, Greg Hassall investigates its ever-growing ... and more »

Published Mon, Aug 31

TV FESTIVAL SPECIAL: The Wire creator David Simon - If you don't have a message, why do it?

source: Deadline Press & Picture Agency

His comments came after Tory MP Chris Grayling compared inner city Birmingham with the gritty streets of Baltimore, Maryland, portrayed in David Simon’s smash TV show. He was talking at the International Television Festival in Edinburgh today(Fri) at an event hosted by newspaper and b...

Published Fri, Aug 28

Opinion: Getting started with 'The Wire'

source: david

I first heard of The Wire from Charlie Brooker in his TV show, ‘Screenwipe’.  From his Guardian columns and his TV shows I had come to massively respect his opinions, and his endorsement of The Wire was so warm and sincere that I knew I had to check it out.  If you click here you can see  Charlie’s...

Published Mon, Jul 6

Summer reading list

source: Kansas.com

 KS Labeling Pelecanos a crime novelist is as much an understatement as describing "The Wire" -- for which he was a writer and producer -- as a TV show set in Baltimore. Just as that critically acclaimed HBO series encompassed the ills of our ravaged ...

Published Sat, Jun 13

Podcast alert

source: stevenhartsite (WordPress)

On BBC 3’s Arts & Ideas, David Simon, ex-journo and creator of The Wire, my most favorite TV show ever, talks about his wrenching book The Corner, the precursor to The Wire, which is only now seeing publication in the U.K.

Published Thu, Jun 11

George Pelecanos - The Way Home

source: The List

 UK Having long since established his credentials as a chronicler of life on the mean streets of Washington DC, George Pelecanos more recently broadened his fanbase as screenwriter and story editor on The Wire, the Baltimore-based TV show that also used ...

Published Wed, Jun 10

Summer, and the reading is easy

source: Monterey County Herald

 CA Labeling Pelecanos a crime novelist is as much an understatement as describing "The Wire" — for which he was a writer and producer — as a TV show set in Baltimore. Just as that critically acclaimed HBO series encompassed the ills of our ravaged society ...

Published Tue, Jun 9