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The Wire

July 2024

  • Lily Collins in Emily in Paris, Richard Gadd in Baby Reindeer and Jeremy Allen White in The Bear

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  • David Mitchell

    I’m lost in the foothills of a mountain of TV

    David Mitchell

August 2023

  • Michael K William

    Drug dealer gets 10 years in prison for role in actor Michael K Williams’s death

    Irvin Cartagena sentenced after pleading guilty to providing The Wire actor with fentanyl-laced heroin, causing his death

July 2023

  • Celebrities Get Ready For The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards<br>MIAMI, FL - MARCH 31: Michael K. Williams is seen in his award show look for the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on March 31, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Due to COVID-19 restrictions the 2021 SAG Awards will be a one-hour, pre-taped event airing April 4 on TNT and TBS. (Photo by Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images)

    Michael K Williams: drug dealer in overdose death of Wire actor sentenced to 30 months in prison

    Williams’ nephew and The Wire creator David Simon spoke on behalf of Carlos Macci, 72, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to possessing and distributing narcotics

June 2023

  • Sarah Snook, Jeremy Strong, Nicholas Braun and Kieran Culkin in Succesion.

    ‘The end of peak television’: has the era of prestige TV just ground to a halt?

    Many of the biggest shows are coming to an end, cancellations are through the roof and miniseries are on the rise. Are the days of the all-conquering television drama numbered?

March 2023

  • USA. Lance Reddick in the ©HBO TV series : The Wire - season 4 (2002-2008) . Plot: The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement. Ref: LMK106-J6720-050820 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2CBBMYN USA. Lance Reddick in the ©HBO TV series : The Wire - season 4 (2002-2008) . Plot: The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement. Ref: LMK106-J6720-050820 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com

    Lance Reddick obituary

  • Lance Reddick in The Wire.

    Lance Reddick: The Wire’s crusading cop led with command and conviction

  • Lance Reddick in 2020

    Lance Reddick, star of The Wire and John Wick, dies aged 60

  • Idris Elba in Luther: The Fallen Sun.

    Idris Elba: ‘You can make sparkling wine in Portsmouth or champagne in Champagne. My ambition was to make champagne’

November 2022

  • Michael K Williams as Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire.

    The 50 greatest HBO shows ever – ranked

    From juicy dramas about polyamory, bootlegging and the ‘golden age of porn’ to the most jaw-dropping documentary moment of all time, HBO is known as the home of prestige TV. As it turns 50, here are its greatest hits so far

August 2022

  • Celebrities Get Ready For The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards<br>MIAMI, FL - MARCH 31: Michael K. Williams is seen in his award show look for the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on March 31, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Due to COVID-19 restrictions the 2021 SAG Awards will be a one-hour, pre-taped event airing April 4 on TNT and TBS. (Photo by Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images)

    ‘If I’m not Omar any more, who am I?’: the late Michael K Williams on leaving The Wire and meeting Obama

  • Idris Elba

    The reader interview
    Idris Elba: ‘You need a good coat if you’re going to be a detective’

July 2022

  • Idris Elba will answer your questions.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Idris Elba

    Ahead of the release of new film Beast, the actor, musician, podcaster and possibly the next James Bond will take on your questions

June 2022

  • Pushing the physicality … Pablo Schreiber.

    ‘I put on 40 pounds of muscle. Holy mackerel!’ Pablo Schreiber on playing Halo’s ripped hero

    The videogame has finally been adapted for TV – with the former Wire actor in the lead. He talks about his lean years after the legendary show aired – and losing his Halo character the Master Chief’s famous helmet
  • Puffed up … Sgt Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal) in episode one of We Own This City.

    TV review
    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
  • ‘Who is policing us? Who gets to feel safe – and who doesn’t?’ … Wunmi Mosaku.

    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’

May 2022

  • Jon Bernthal

    The G2 interview
    ‘I made a lot of mistakes’: Jon Bernthal on machismo, his violent past and playing a corrupt cop in We Own This City

    For his role in the hotly anticipated new drama from the creators of The Wire, Bernthal embedded himself in the Baltimore police force. He talks about his own brushes with the law, advice from Brad Pitt and how acting saved his life

February 2022

  • Michael K Williams in August last year. New York City’s medical examiner earlier ruled that Williams died of acute drug intoxication.

    Michael K Williams: four men charged in overdose death of Wire actor

    New York police had been surveilling the suspects even before the actor’s death and the charges stemmed from that sting operation

December 2021

  • Michael K Williams in Brooklyn, 2017.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2021
    Those we lost in 2021: Michael K Williams remembered by Felicia Pearson

  • Protest of Sean Suiter’s death in The Slow Hustle

    The Wire’s Sonja Sohn on her Baltimore documentary: ‘We are seeing multilayered corruption’

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