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HBO Set to Re-'Wire' in '06
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HBO Set to Re-'Wire' in '06
(Thursday, March 17 03:00 PM)
 
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) After much speculation about its future, the critically adored but little-watched HBO series "The Wire" will return for a fourth season.  
 
HBO announced Thursday (March 17) that the show, a novelistic take on crime and inner-city life in Baltimore, will resume production late this year. The new season will premiere sometime in 2006.  
 
"'The Wire' just keeps getting better, so we're delighted that David Simon and his team will be returning for another provocative season," says Carolyn Strauss, president of HBO Entertainment. "We share the critics' enthusiasm for this unique and challenging series, and eagerly await the new episodes."
 
Although it's ostensibly a cop show, "The Wire" also digs deeper into issues like poverty, race, class and the war on drugs. Seasons one and three revolved primarily around a Baltimore police investigation into a drug ring led by Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) and Stringer Bell (Idris Elba). The second season also touched on the Barksdale case while focusing on a declining longshoreman's union and the lengths some members went to in order to keep it viable.  
 
With the Barksdale story more or less wrapped up, creator David Simon says the fourth season will focus on the educational system and its role in the show's West Baltimore.  
 
Although the series earns widespread praise from critics, it has never found a very large audience; its most recent season averaged under 2 million viewers per week. The third-season finale, which appeared to wrap up several plot threads, also led to speculation that HBO would not renew it.
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Re: HBO Set to Re-'Wire' in '06
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The Wire has been one of my favorite shows since it first came out.  I hope you all will consider giving it a watch if you have HBO.  The acting has been great, the plot is good, the cast is just so diversified...I can't sing the praises enough about this show.  It's a shame that it's never found it's audience.
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We love this show.  So happy that it will return next year.
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