Showing 1 - 15 of 37 articles tagged "Michael K. Williams"

• Posted Wednesday 2/02/22 at 6:22PM EST

  Four arrested in connection with Michael K. Williams' overdose death

  Federal prosecutors charged Irvin Cartagena with a narcotics conspiracy for allegedly distributing the fentanyl-laced heroin that killed Williams.

• Posted Tuesday 1/11/22 at 3:53AM EST

  Can Vice TV's Black Market return for a Season 3 without Michael K. Williams?

  Executive producer Matt Goldman said that because "there's no other show" that explores this side of illicit trade or crime...

• Posted Thursday 1/06/22 at 2:24PM EST

  Tracy Morgan, Rosie Perez and Felicia Pearson to narrate the final three episodes of Michael K. Williams' Black Market

  They'll fill in for Williams, who died in September, on Season 2 of his Vice TV docuseries.

• Posted Monday 11/29/21 at 4:11PM EST

  Vice TV releases an emotional trailer for Michael K. Williams' Black Market Season 2

  The late actor had completed much of the work on Season 2 before he died on Labor Day Weekend.

• Posted Thursday 11/18/21 at 2:50AM EST

  Michael K. Williams' New York Times obituary racked up 2.8 million views, while Norm Macdonald and Willie Garson each had around 1 million views for their obits

  The New York Times obituaries editor William McDonald revealed that data to The Washington Post in an article about the...

• Posted Friday 10/08/21 at 2:17PM EDT

  Baltimore Ravens plan to make its use Omar's The Wire whistle a regular tribute to Michael K. Williams

  The NFL team actually reached out to Williams five years ago for a “Ravens comin'" collaboration inspired by the oft-quoted...

• Posted Saturday 9/25/21 at 1:39AM EDT

  Michael K. Williams died of an accidental drug overdose, medical examiner rules

  The Wire alum, who had been open with his struggles with drug addiction, succumbed on Labor Day to acute intoxication...

• Posted Monday 9/20/21 at 6:18PM EDT

  The Crown's Tobias Menzies dedicates his Emmy to Michael K. Williams

  Menzies, who beat out Williams for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, didn't attend Sunday's Primetime Emmys ceremony.

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  Posted Monday 9/20/21 at 10:26AM EDT

  The Emmys failed to reflect a TV landscape that is exciting, daring and more abundant than ever

  "The Emmys celebrated a TV landscape proliferated with more good programming than ever before, but then voters proceeded to give...

• Posted Monday 9/20/21 at 10:26AM EDT

  Why Michael K. Williams' Emmy loss hurt so much

  "While there were many victories to celebrate at the Emmys, one loss seemed to cast a cloud over the gala...

• Posted Saturday 9/18/21 at 3:04AM EDT

  Michael K. Williams' nephew will accept his Emmy if he wins for Lovecraft Country

  The late actor's nephew and mentee, Dominic Dupont, appeared in the Williams-produced 2017 Vice documentary Raised by the System.

• Posted Wednesday 9/15/21 at 6:21PM EDT

  Jurnee Smollett posts an emotional tribute to Lovecraft Country co-star Michael K. Williams: "My brother, my heart hurts so"

  "A part of my brain refuses to accept it…sh*tty part about grief-it goes in stages," Smollett wrote in a lengthy tribute on...

• Posted Monday 9/13/21 at 11:16AM EDT

  David Simon remembers Michael K. Williams: We had trouble casting Omar on The Wire until we remembered the actor with the "amazing scar"

  The Wire creator tweeted that his New York Times tribute to Williams, who died a week ago at age 54,...

• Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT

  Michael K. Williams was a performer openly daunted by the task at hand: a shock absorber

  "No knock on David Simon and Ed Burns, but it was Williams who invented Omar.

• Posted Wednesday 9/08/21 at 3:39PM EDT

  Jonathan Majors pens a tribute to Lovecraft Country co-star Michael K. Williams: "He was an angel — a guardian angel"

  "Today the world is a different place," Majors writes in an essay for Variety.