David Simon talks about the spin-off of 'The Wire' that HBO turned down that would've centered on Tommy Carcetti's character.

I have to agree with Hypervocal on this: The Wire: The Musical may very well be the single best thing Funny or Die has ever done.

In the first season of "Treme," John Goodman's character was found dead in the Mississippi River after he jumped off a ferry and drowned himself.

Remember when the Attorney General joked about how he wanted a sixth season of "The Wire," and David Simon was all, "I'll make it if you stop the misguided, destructive and dehumanising prohibition of drugs".

Last week, while speaking to some cast members from "The Wire" in front of the Justice Department, Attorney General Eric Holder praised the acclaimed HBO series and jokingly asked that creator David Simon make a sixth season of the show.

Here's the extended version of the newest teaser for Season 2 of HBO's "Treme.

Here's a new teaser for Season 2 of "Treme," which premieres Sunday, April 24th.

At the Amplify Baltimore event on January 8th, Police Commissioner Frederick H.

David Simon, the former journalist who brought "Homicide," "The Corner," "The Wire," "Generation Kill," and "Treme" to television, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the $500,000 award given to innovators that is more widely know as the "genius grant.