The Wire News

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 .

Sonja Sohn, who played a tough, morally grounded detective in the HBO series, is helping with the curriculum.

Glenn Close accepts her Emmy for outstanding lead actress in "Damages". Photo: AP IT USED to be the case that doing well on television might land you a shot at the big time.

E1 Music is excited to announce the release of "The Avon Barksdale Story - Legends of the Unwired" -- in March 2010.

As my mind goes, I hope one of the memories I keep is of the day Nelson Mandela was released from his South African prison.

Another thing they both had in common was David Simon, the reporter who wrote the book on which Homicide was based.

Share + Oct 22, 2009 6:28 pm US/Eastern Link To reWIRED For Change Reporting Derek Valcourt 1 of 1 The show "The Wire" is being used to teach some of the city's most troubled teenagers to turn their own lives around and away from drugs and crime.

Troy Henry may be the only mayoral contender to have a Hollywood celebrity playing a visible role in the campaign.

The Wire made a killing at the Crime Thriller awards, picking up two prizes including a best actor gong for star Dominic West.

Things can move slowly for an overworked, under-resourced police department in one of the most crime-ridden, drug-soaked cities in America.

Photo: Paul Schiraldi Aussie Ladette to Lady Nine, 9.30pm In the film Annie Hall , Woody Allen's character wonders whether he always falls for the wrong women; as a child he fell for the Wicked Witch while everyone loved Snow White.