January 27, 2008
The current season of HBO's The Wire is its last, but apparently, this has not been enough to convince viewers to tune in to the show religiously. As per the Baltimore Sun, the show saw another decline in its viewership last week, down 339, 000 viewers from the previous week's audience of 1.185 million – a loss of 29 percent.
The network reasoned that the drop in show viewership was due to tough competition, namely the New York Giants/ Green Bay Packers football game on NBC's Sunday Night Football program. However, the total number of viewers for The Wire has also dropped this season – 23 percent from last year, as per the figures given by the cable network.
January 20, 2008
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson may be a perfect fit for her role on HBO's The Wire, but the circumstances that landed her the part were purely coincidental.
“I met Michael K. Williams, [who plays Omar Little on the show] in a nightclub [called] Club One,” Pearson told Orlando Weekly. “He kept looking at me, so I asked my cousin, ‘Man, who is that guy that keep lookin' at me?' So my cousin was like ‘Who, Omar?' And I said, ‘Who the hell is that? You know him?' And he said, ‘Yeah, that's the one that play on The Wire.' So finally Omar came over and said, ‘Let me ask you a question, are you a girl or boy?'”
January 12, 2008
HBO's The Wire returned to the screen last week, marking the beginning of the show's fifth and final run.
“I've had about four months to get used to it,” show star Clarke Peters told TV Guide when asked how he felt about The Wire, which is shot primarily in Baltimore, coming to end. “You're not seeing the crew anymore, you're not working on the stories, so Baltimore seems to be fading into the background, but I like Baltimore, so I'm here.”
January 6, 2008
For all its greatness, The Wire has never been an uplifting show. Policemen and politicians, educators and ex-cons all try to do good work, but drugs and corruption run too deep in the city of Baltimore. In the fourth season, a character said, “No one wins. One side just loses more slowly,” and though he was talking about football, the same could be said for the war on drugs.
December 21, 2007
Next year, Nonesuch and Warner Music Group is releasing a deluxe edition soundtrack for HBO's critically-acclaimed drama series, The Wire. The soundtrack, entitled “The Wire… ‘and all the pieces matter,'” contains music from the show's five years, including a number of tracks from underground hip hop and club artists in Baltimore, where the series is set.
Titles found in the The Wire deluxe soundtrack include “Efuge, Efuge” “Unfriendly Game,” “Fast Train,” “The Body of an American,” “Ayo,” “Analyze,” “What You Know About Baltimore,” “Projects,” “Jail Flick,” “I Feel Alright,” “The Life, The Hood, The Streetz,” “Dance My Pain Away,” and “I Walk on Guilded Splinters.”
December 5, 2007
HBO, to promote the January 6 premiere of The Wire's fifth and final season, has released three prequel videos involving characters from the highly acclaimed drama. The three short videos are already being streamed for free on Amazon.com on the page for The Wire: Season Four DVD. The videos will become available on HBO On Demand December 15. HBO has been a pioneer in the realm of On Demand content, creatively disseminating episodes of its original series along with original content, like these three Wire prequels. The Wire is one of the most popular On Demand shows for HBO, only trailing The Sopranos in On Demand viewing. Here's a look at each of the three videos:
December 3, 2007
HBO has finally set a date for the highly anticipated return its critically acclaimed series, The Wire. On Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 9/8c, the series created by David Simon will kickoff its fifth and final season, followed by the return of Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam at 10/9c.
Last year, the networked commissioned for a fifth season of The Wire consisting of 13 episodes but was eventually reduced to just 10 episodes. Filming of the new season officially started in April and wrapped its production in the first week of September.
July 27, 2007
J.D. Williams was known as Preston "Bodie" Broadus, one of the soldiers in the Barksdale organization on HBO's The Wire. Loyal and willing to obey his superiors, he gradually rose through the ranks of the gang, proving himself worthy for the position of Crew Chief. Unfortunately, he got caught in the chaotic world of drug trade and became vulnerable to larger narcotic organizations, which resulted to his murder. In the coming months, the African-American actor will be featured in various movies that are all set for release this year.