The Wire

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  • The Wire is an HBO original television series based on the ongoing drug wars in Baltimore, Maryland. It is produced and written by David Simon, a former Baltimore journalist, and Ed Burns, a former police officer.

    The series examines the drug trade not only through the eyes of the police but also by following the lives of the drug dealers and addicts. It also broadens out to look at the life of the city and the ways its instutions work, or don't, creating the problems that feed the drug trade.

    The series was shot in Baltimore and often used locals as extras, includig cameos by a former Police Commissioner and by the Governor of Maryland..

    It has been widely praised as one of the best TV dramas ever made, and compared in scope and power to a great novel.http://www.slate.com/id/2149566/

  • Fast Facts

    1. Air Dates: June 2002 - March 2008
    2. Network: HBO
    3. Created By: David Simon
    4. 5 seasons, totalling 60 episodes
  • Cast and Show Details

    1. Debuted: June 2, 2002
    2. Series finale: March 9, 2008
    3. Network: HBO
    4. Number of seasons: 5
    5. Number of episodes: 60
    6. Created by: David Simon
      1. David Simon
      1. Nina Kostroff Noble
      1. Joe Chappelle
      1. Ernest R. Dickerson
      1. Clark Johnson
      1. Edward Bianchi
      1. Steve Shill
      1. David Simon
      1. Ed Burns
      1. Chris Collins
      1. George P. Pelecanos
      1. Richard Price
      1. Dominic West
      1. John Doman
      1. Frankie Faison
      1. Aidan Gillen
      1. Deirdre Lovejoy
    7. Runtime: 60 minutes / episode
      1. WGA Award (2008)
      1. Peabody Award (2004)
      1. Edgar Award (2007)
  • An Episodic Novel On Television

    Creator David Simon based The Wire on his experiences as a police reporter for The Baltimore Sun, as well as on those of his writing parter, former Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns. Initially intended to focus on police surveillance, the show grew to represent the larger pressure between individual need and institutional pressure. Each season approached the show's core issues and themes from a different perspective: the police department, the dockworkers, the politicians, the education system, and the media.

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