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The Wire's David Simon vs. war on drugs

Simon is asking for leniency for the man charged with supplying the late Michael K. Williams with fentanyl

Salon

‘The Wire’ creator David Simon pens leniency letter for dealer whose crew sold fatal drugs to actor Michael K. Williams

NEW YORK — “A man gotta have a code.”

Tribune News Service

The best TV finales of all time: as Gavin & Stacey nears the end we pick our favourites from Fleabag to Friends

As the show starring James Corden and Ruth Jones prepares to bow out, our writers pick telly’s most gripping send-offs

Evening Standard

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Being a TV writer has changed — and so have the wages, says 'The Wire' creator

The Wire creator David Simon says he doesn't think artificial intelligence can "remotely challenge" what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.

WEKU

David Simon says CNN staffers should quit over town hall with ‘fascist’ Trump

“Well, If I worked at CNN today, I would quit. Honestly,” Mr Simon says

The Independent UK

JCPenney goes back to department store roots to shake retail ‘road kill’ rap

Sometimes the relevance of a retailer is decided by people who don’t shop there. It’s a Wall Street vs. Main Street, high-income vs. mid-to-low-income kind of thing.

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John Wick film to be dedicated to Lance Reddick

The fourth John Wick film will be dedicated to the late Lance Reddick, as Hollywood and his hometown of Baltimore pay tribute to him.

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Lance Reddick: The Wire’s crusading cop led with command and conviction

The late actor has left behind a career of distinguished and often devastating roles, headed up by his no-nonsense lieutenant in the HBO drama

The Guardian - US

The 50 greatest HBO shows ever – ranked

From juicy dramas about polyamory, bootlegging and the ‘golden age of porn’ to the most jaw-dropping documentary moment of all time, HBO is known as the home of prestige TV. As it turns 50, here are its greatest hits so far

The Guardian - UK

Alexa could diagnose Alzheimer's and other brain conditions — should it?

Researchers are considering whether personal digital assistants like Alexa could diagnose cognitive conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia. But the ethics are murky.

Inverse

TV tonight: the black-hearted enigma that is Ghislaine Maxwell

A grimly compelling documentary about the convicted former socialite. Plus: Freddie Flintoff tries to convince Preston teenagers to play cricket. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Idris Elba ‘was not happy’ when Stringer Bell was written out of The Wire, claims David Simon

Actor left the seminal HBO series after its third season

The Independent UK

It’s been 20 years since ‘The Wire’ made lots of actors household names. Where are some of them now?

BALTIMORE — During the five seasons that “The Wire” was broadcast on HBO, co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns filled it with more complicated and nuanced characters than a Russian novel.

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The week in TV: Everything I Know About Love; We Own This City; My Name Is Leon; Avoidance

Dolly Alderton’s millennial memoir and Kit de Waal’s acclaimed social care novel are brought to the screen with aplomb, while David Simon’s new Baltimore cop drama is brutally compelling

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True story of elite police force guilty of city's biggest ever crime wave

New Sky Atlantic series, We Own This City, takes a look at how Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force were actually responsible for its biggest ever crime wave

The Guardian - UK

We Own This City review – like The Wire, but about real corrupt cops. What a horror show

David Simon’s swaggering new series might remind you of The Wire, but We Own This City is based on a true case of mass police corruption in Baltimore – which makes it all the more disturbing

The Guardian - UK

From Men to We Own This City: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you fancy the latest Brit horror film or another trip to Baltimore with David Simon, our critics have got you covered

The Guardian - UK

Wunmi Mosaku: ‘I’m Black in America. My feeling about the police is … I’m scared’

The actor has gone from Manchester charity shop rifler to Hollywood’s most wanted. As she stars in the hot new show from The Wire team, she opens up about sweet-talking racist cops ... and why David Simon left her a ‘bumbling fool’

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20 years later, ‘The Wire’ still has fans buzzing about Baltimore

BALTIMORE — In the summer of 2004, actor Jamie Hector was filming an episode from the third season of “The Wire” late at night on a rundown street in East Baltimore when shots rang out. He knew instantly that these were real bullets coming from a real gun, not the…

The Independent UK

The Wire’s final season wasn’t the mess you remember, fake serial killers and all

Many people agree that David Simon’s 20-year-old crime drama is the best TV series ever made – but even ardent fans often treat its final season as an inferior product. Louis Chilton pleads the case for the unjustly maligned brilliance of ‘The Wire’ season five

The Independent UK

The Wire at 20: Every episode ranked, from serial killer shark jumps to Omar’s tragic end

Rarely has TV been bolder or more brutal than David Simon’s landmark drama series, which made stars of Idris Elba, Michael B Jordan and the late, great Michael K Williams. As the show celebrates 20 years since its debut, Greg Evans ranks all 60 of its episodes

France 24

Series show: ‘We Own The City’ takes us back to the mean streets of Baltimore

Twenty years after “The Wire” saw David Simon’s gritty writing transposed to the screen, Yena Lee tells us why “We Own The City” provides a complex and compelling sequel to the crime drama. We discuss “Gaslit”, a new adaptation of the Watergate scandal, which sees Julia Roberts and Sean Penn…

Salon

How I started writing for TV

Making the leap to scripted TV with HBO's "We Own This City" took years of unglamorous and difficult work

Tribune News Service

What to stream: So many shows trying to beat Emmys deadline

Does it seem like there’s a lot of TV right now? More than normal? The spring of 2022 has seen a deluge of new television series, and this flood is only increasing over the next month. There’s a reason that it’s felt especially hectic now, which is a little something…

The Independent UK

We Own This City, review: Bad cops are everywhere in David Simon’s grubby new detective drama

The Wire’s creator digs into a police department drowning in corruption, following the real-life 2015 death of Black Baltimore resident Freddie Grey while in custody

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