Dominic West News Archives

Down in the hole... Clarke Peters with Wendell Pierce and Dominic West in The Wire.

Detective James McNulty is at the heart of all that is good and bad in Baltimore.

A letter by the Mayor of Baltimore rebuking a senior Conservative for comparing the UK to the hit TV series The Wire was a fake by a Labour parliamentary hopeful and blogger, it has emerged.

Acting hunk Dominic West is swapping The Wire for the wireless, it was announced today.

* Dominic West, who played Baltimore cop Jimmy McNulty on five seasons of "The Wire," will play Sab Than, the Martian prince who in the books tried to force the fabulous red Martian princess Dejah Thoris to marry him.

Britain's inner-city streets resemble the violent districts of Baltimore as portrayed in the US television drama The Wire , the Conservatives claim.

The sci-fi epic John Carter of Mars just infused three more talented actors into it's casting pool.