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Posted Tuesday 1/05/21 at 4:08AM EST
The Wire's David Simon to Georgia voters voting Democrat: "I will send you a personal apology for killing your favorite character"
Simon spent Sunday canvassing a six-block grid of Southwest Atlanta with former Wire star Gbenga Akinnagbe in support of Jon...
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Posted Friday 11/20/20 at 1:39PM EST
The Wire's David Simon proclaims himself "#DumbestTVProducerAlive" for killing off "Sexiest Man" winners Idris Elba and Michael B. Jordan
"I think it fair to note that I may well be the only writer-producer to launch the careers of two...
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Posted Wednesday 11/18/20 at 5:30AM EST
Michael B. Jordan becomes the second The Wire alum in three years to be name People's Sexiest Man Alive
Jordan appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! disguised in a hazmat suit for his unveiling as the 2020 People's Sexiest Man...
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Posted Tuesday 9/22/20 at 4:31AM EDT
From The Good Place to The Wire: Here are 20 acclaimed shows that never won an Emmy
As TVLine notes, Michael Schur has gone Emmy-loss for his two beloved shows: Parks and Recreation and The Good Place.
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P-Valley reclaims stripping from a tired trope in Prestige TV dramas
The Sopranos famously used the Bada Bing for scenes in which Tony Soprano and his mob colleagues "talk serious man...
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Posted Thursday 8/06/20 at 3:44AM EDT
Read an oral history of The Wire's "Game Day" episode
"Baltimore’s illegal activity (for the afternoon of Episode 9) was on a kind of TV timeout," Kelley L.
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 4:52AM EDT
Wendell Pierce: The Wire is a "precursor" to police brutality controversy: "An indicator, a warning light, of the implosion we are feeling today"
Responding to a Hollywood Reporter TV critics' debate on TV police portrayals that said The Wire cops had "heroic gloss"...
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Posted Saturday 6/06/20 at 5:40AM EDT
Shut down cop shows!: Hollywood is addicted to portraying police as more effective than they are in real life
"For a century, Hollywood has been collaborating with police departments, telling stories that whitewash police shootings and valorizing an action-hero...
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Posted Wednesday 6/03/20 at 8:50AM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel confronts his own white privilege, admitting it's "easy to get defensive" when the phrase comes up
Kimmel said the first time he heard the phrase white privilege, he was defensive, too.
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Posted Saturday 4/18/20 at 4:08AM EDT
David Simon is "a little bit amused" that The Wire is being talked about now amid new episodes of The Plot Against America
The Wire once again appears to be all the rage amid the pandemic.
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HBO offering 500 hours of free programming, including The Sopranos, The Wire, Veep and Succession
Starting Friday, HBO will launch the #StayHomeBoxOffice initiative to get people to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Posted Saturday 3/28/20 at 4:47AM EDT
David Simon is celebrated for The Wire, but it's possible his shows in the 2010s eclipses what came before
"This April 11th marks the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Treme, the New Orleans-set ensemble drama that Simon co-created...
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Posted Wednesday 3/25/20 at 1:41PM EDT
The Ringer is launching a The Wire rewatch podcast hosted by Jemele Hill and Van Lathan
ESPN alum Hill and TMZ vet Lathan will delve into each episode of the acclaimed HBO series in the podcast...
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Posted Tuesday 3/24/20 at 7:49PM EDT
HBO Now streaming jumps 40% amid coronavirus quarantines
HBO Now said its documentary Ebola: The Doctor's Story has more than seven times its typical viewership since March 14.
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Posted Friday 3/06/20 at 3:22AM EST
Alex Garland's Devs is an ambitious kind of bad TV
"Any taxonomy of television would need an entire kingdom just for bad TV," says Willa Paskin.
