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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.

Rashiq Amini came home one day in southern Iran to find his father, Mousa, gone.

For eight impressive seasons, actor Vincent D'Onofrio has captivated and sometimes annoyed viewers as know-it-all detective Robert Goren on the NBC/USA drama 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent.' A spinoff of the original 'Law & Order,' the series has given D'Onofrio the platform to saunter around and confront murder and robbery suspects with a wild ...

Seth Gilliam will be playing the role of Darryl Love in "The Catch," part of Hartford Stage's "Brand:NEW" annual play reading series.

Dominic West has impressed critics with his performance in a West End play. The Wire actor treads the boards at London's Donmar Warehouse as lead character Seguismundo in the British version of Spanish play Life Is A Dream.

Wire creator David Simon introduces his new book about the television phemonenon that redefined the way we think about cop shows Click image to download an audio extract from The Wire: Truth Be Told, read by David Simon "We're building something here .

Clarke Peters as detective Lester Freamon in The Wire. East West 101 SBS One, 8.30pm The second season of SBS's home-grown multicultural crime series seeks to up the ante, with the introduction in tonight's opener of a new lead character, Agent Skeritt .

Channel 4 is showing True Blood and Generation Kill tonight. But FX had both shows a ' along with The Wire, Breaking Bad, Dexter and Eastbound and Down - first.

SOME of the best-known faces from The Wire, the American television drama series that has taken the world by storm, are expected in Glin next year when one of the series' stars, Dominic West, marries Catherine FitzGerald, daughter of the Knight of Glin and his wife, Olda.

One of the stars of US show The Wire is to play a role in the new Dr Who spin-off animation, Dreamland.

After serving nine years on assault and attempted murder charges, former Bad Boy rapper Shyne was set to be released from prison today [Ed Note: MTV reports that the MC is still in custody, due to his questions regarding his immigration status.] During his time in the joint for his part in a December 27, 1999 shootout inside Club New York, for ...

Method Man, a member of the hip-hop collective the Wu-Tang Clan, has been arrested on felony charges of failing to file New York State income tax returns for 2004 to 2007 and not paying $32,799 in personal income taxes for the same period.

Method Man was arrested Monday and charged with tax evasion. Articles The Staten Island rapper, actor and producer known as Method Man was tagged with another label Monday: tax cheat.

London, Films made in London Waterloo fun set: the girls race across the Thames in St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold Shooting fantasy in the real world: Gulliver's Travels in Greenwich Last week, a new crime thriller called Blitz, starring Jason Statham , Paddy Considine and Aidan Gillen from The Wire, wrapped after shooting for 45 days ...

To say that Lance Reddick is intimidating in person is, perhaps, the understatement of the century.