Aidan Gillen News

The Wire Re-up: The Guardian Guide to the Greatest TV Show Ever Made is out now from Guardian Books , and available in all good bookshops.

The Wire, the US crime drama, uses British and Irish actors because Americans are too afraid to play "scumbags", according to star Aidan Gillen.

Aidan Gillen: 'I'm less bothered about playing disgusting or flawed people' Aidan Gillen made his name playing chancers and scumbags and in his new BBC drama Freefall he portrays a venal City banker Aidan Gillen .

The BBC seemed to have spotted the green shoots of economic recovery. Either that or they're guessing that we'll all be bored witless by the credit crunch by the end of the summer the original transmission date for its big new recession drama, Freefall.

IT sounds like a weird prospect: Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party with Aboriginal actors.

If you ever wished The Wire came with a translator on the red button, youre not alone.