No man has done more to spread the word about The Wire than Charlie Brooker. The Guardian columnist and presenter of the superlative BBC4 TV review show Screenwipe has been championing the show for years now, fighting a one-man battle to get more people to watch it.
You can read some of his articles on the show here and here, or instead check out this report on a talk with series creator David Simon that he recently hosted at London’s National Film Theatre. Better still, take a look at his FX documentary Tapping The Wire or the segment below from an edition of Screenwipe shown last year.
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