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David Simon

July 2024

  • Evan Wright at the premiere of Generation Kill in California in 2008

    Generation Kill author Evan Wright dies aged 59

    Journalist whose book about US marines in Iraq was adapted into acclaimed HBO series killed himself on Friday

June 2022

  • 378458,Everything I Know About Love<br>Everything I Know About Love,09-03-2022,Birdy (BEL POWLEY), Maggie (EMMA APPLETON),Picture shows: Birdy (BEL POWLEY), Maggie (EMMA APPLETON) L-R,Universal International Studios Ltd,Matthew Squire

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Everything I Know About Love; We Own This City; My Name Is Leon; Avoidance

    Dolly Alderton’s millennial memoir and Kit de Waal’s acclaimed social care novel are brought to the screen with aplomb, while David Simon’s new Baltimore cop drama is brutally compelling
  • 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

September 2021

  • David Simon<br>FILE - This Jan. 15, 2020 file photo shows David Simon speaking at the "The Plot Against America" panel during the HBO TCA 2020 Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. The 6-part mini-series, based on the novel by the late Philip Roth, premieres Monday, March 16. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

    David Simon defends decision to pull HBO series from Texas following abortion ban

  • ‘A man’s gotta have a code’ … Williams as Omar; the actor died this week.

    ‘I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase’ – how The Wire’s Omar changed TV

August 2020

  • David Simon, creator of The Wire series

    Wire creator David Simon causes stink in Spanish Twitter translation balls-up

    Screenwriter caught up in Twitter crossfire misunderstands term Olé tus cojones

May 2020

  • Clockwise from bottom left, Feel Good, Bojack Horseman, Save Me Too, Tiger King, This Country

    The best TV shows of 2020 so far

    The Nest rose above other primetime thrillers, the bizarre world of Tiger King captivated us, while Feel Good brought some much-needed laughs to our screens

January 2020

  • TV2020 Retouched

    2020 culture preview
    Sunny reality and cruises in space: TV shows to get excited about in 2020

    The Love Islanders are back to lift our winter blues, Phoebe Waller-Bridge returns to the small screen, and there’s evil on the wards

July 2019

  • David Simon and George Pelecanos, co-creators of The Deuce, at The Idle Hour bar in Baltimore.

    Dominic West joins David Simon in condemning 'racist moron' Trump

  • A small mural of Martin Luther King in the city’s Sandtown district in west Baltimore.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Baltimore

September 2018

  • TV The Deuce explores the rough-and-tumble world at the pioneering moments of what would become the billion-dollar American sex industry.

    The Deuce: episode by episode
    The Deuce recap: season two, episode one – back in the New York groove

  • Gary Carr photographed for The Guardian Guide.

    ‘He’s a person first and a pimp second’: The Deuce’s Gary Carr on battling stereotypes on TV

August 2018

  • Autumn 2018 TV highlights: Vanity Fair, Killing Eve, Black Earth Rising, Kidding

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Sex, spies and video dates: the must-see TV shows of autumn 2018

    John Le Carré is back, there’s a killer on the loose, Jonah Hill and Emma Stone get trippy, and Sean Penn is going to Mars

April 2018

  • David Simon.

    The Wire creator David Simon plans series based on Spanish civil war

    The creator of the acclaimed Baltimore drama will focus on the 20th-century conflict for his next project. A Dry Run will follow the story of US soldiers who fought for the republic

March 2018

  • ‘Greek tragedy for the new millennium’ … Michael B Jordan, Tray Chaney, Larry Gilliard Jr and JD Williams in season one of The Wire.

    The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’

    David Simon’s ‘anti-cop show’ struggled to find an audience before being lauded as a classic and making stars of Idris Elba, Michael B Jordan and others. Here, some of its writers and stars look back at a series that changed TV for ever

January 2018

  • David Simon and George Pelecanos, co-creators of The Deuce, at The Idle Hour bar in Baltimore.

    David Simon adapting Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America for TV

    The Wire director confirms a six-part mini-series is in the works, based Roth’s 2004 novel in which Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 election

December 2017

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    2017 in TV
    From Taboo to Mindhunter: how TV drama washed away toxic masculinity

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal as Eileen in The Deuce.

    2017 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 7 The Deuce

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