The Latest Breaking News from David Simon

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 · Aug 5, 2022

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 · Jul 5, 2022

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 · Jun 30, 2022

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 · Jun 4, 2022

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’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2022

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…

Tribune News Service · Jun 2, 2022

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 · Jun 2, 2022

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

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2022

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…

France 24 · May 5, 2022

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

Salon · May 2, 2022