The Wire News

Michael Kenneth Williams' portrayal of Omar Little, the iconoclastic shotgun-toting stick-up artist in the HBO drama The Wire , earned praise from critics, peers and gangsters alike.

19, 2009 Atlantic City was not the Atlantic City Scorsese and HBO had in mind for a Roaring Twenties mini-series. So they rebuilt, in New York.

If you've seen The Wire , you know that Idris Elba is a ridiculously talented actor who has yet to become a massive success stateside.

This week's Ketchup includes casting news and rumors for Thor , Spider-Man 4 , The Hobbit and Guardians of Ga'hoole , new sequels in the Jackass and Underworld franchises and potential new movies for Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy.

Idris Elba is everywhere these days and I'm loving every minute of it. The former star of HBO's The Wire , as well as the upcoming comic adaptation, The Losers has just hit the mother load.

Dominic West returns as Baltimore police Detective Jimmy McNulty in "The Wire," the dark, critically acclaimed drama returning Sunday for a second season on HBO.

It has been interesting watching 'The Wire' cast show up -- and, alas, not show up -- on other TV series.

The Wire Re-up: The Guardian's Guide to the Greatest TV Show Ever Made is available for pre-ordering now from Guardian Books .

Weekend action for FIREPOWER: Pacquiao vs Cotto will begin Saturday with a pre-fight feature show that will capture both live action of the non pay-per-view televised undercard, interviews with main event fighters Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto hours before their showdown and finally the red-carpet look and feel of a big time fight including ...

Steve Zahn, Kermit Ruffins and Wendell Pierce perform a scene during the 'Treme' pilot shoot.

Series one of the police crime thriller The Wire concludes tonight with drug lord, Avon Barksdale, suffering a temporary setback.

Last Thursday night, FM hiked over to Science Center D to listen to a stick-up boy, a lesbian cop, and a stool pigeon junkie lead a discussion on the inner city before a crowd of Harvard students.

Stringer Bell is confused. "Whaddaya mean The Wire's not feminist?" The Wire , the HBO series that ran for five seasons, will apparently live on, despite its shelf life, in a class at Harvard .

After the news that HBO TV show a oeThe Wirea would be used as a case study in an upcoming Harvard course made waves online last week, an actor from the show and his wife led a discussion at Harvard Law School yesterday centered around the showa s depiction of public schools.

A Harvard professor is creating a course about HBO's acclaimed series The Wire .

The Wire Re-up: The Guardian's Guide to the Greatest TV Show Ever Made is available for pre-ordering now from Guardian Books .

Harvard students will be able to watch the 'The Wire' for class credit next year.

After picking up full seasons of Mercy, Community and Parks and Recreation just last week, NBC has decided to cancel Trauma , the fall TV series about a group of paramedics in San Francisco, California just a month following its September 28 premiere.

Love and Marriage: Jessica Biel has signed on to star in and produce Fucking Engaged , which is, as you may have guessed, a raunchy comedy.

William Julius Wilson, the legendary Harvard sociologist and a giant in the field of African American studies, has a thing for The Wire .