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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.

Tribune News Service

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

Daily Mirror

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…

Tribune News Service

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

The Independent UK

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

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

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…

Tribune News Service

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

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - US

‘Absolutely staggering’: the true story behind TV’s buzziest new show

We Own This City, the anticipated new drama from The Wire’s David Simon, cracks open the story of a corrupt Baltimore police unit fallen from grace

Salon

Bernthal on being Baltimore's dirty cop

On "Salon Talks" Bernthal reveals he spoke to the real Sgt. Wayne Jenkins in prison, victims & friends for the role

Tribune News Service

Jon Bernthal channels ex-Baltimore police sergeant as HBO’s ‘We Own This City’ re-creates rise and fall of GTTF

BALTIMORE — Jon Bernthal once did knuckle pushups outside on the sidewalk.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘We Own This City’ brings ‘The Wire’ team back to Baltimore for brilliant take on police corruption

Epic yet intimate HBO series depicts real-life cases of cops terrorizing neighborhoods and planting weapons and drugs.

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Spring 2022 TV preview: What to watch, try and avoid

Spring is sprung and winter seems to be properly over, but binge-watch weather is in the eye of the beholder.

ABC News

Port Pirie toddlers remain with highest blood lead levels, but SA Health says signs of gradual reduction

Blood lead levels among Port Pirie children remain high, but SA Health's David Simon says there is a decrease in the most severe categories.

The Independent UK

David Simon leads Twitter ripping Tucker Carlson’s ‘racist’ Baltimore bashing

‘Whatever you do, don’t go to Baltimore’ said the host on his Tuesday night show

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