Every few years, I rewatch “The Wire,” the five-season show set in Baltimore that is often considered to be one of the greatest television shows ever made. The wire in the title refers to wiretaps set ...

An actor best known for his role on “The Wire” is dead at age 62. Bobby J. Brown, who played a Baltimore police officer with ...

Bobby J. Brown, 62, known for playing Officer Bobby Brown on HBO’s "The Wire," died Wednesday from smoke inhalation after being caught in a barn fire, according to TMZ and confirmed by his daughter.

Charles “Charley” J. Scalies Jr., best known for his role as Thomas “Horseface” Pakusa on HBO’s “The Wire,” died Thursday after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Scalies, 84, was a sales executive at a ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

“The Wire” star James Ransone’s cause of death has been revealed. The actor died by suicide, according to a Dec. 29 death certificate obtained by People on Wednesday. Ransone’s Dec. 19 passing was ...

When The Wire premiered on HBO in June 2002, television was still learning how to take itself seriously. Prestige dramas like The Sopranos and Six Feet Under began to redefine the medium, but The Wire ...

Bobby J. Brown, who was best known for playing a Baltimore police officer in HBO’s “The Wire,” has died at 62. His agent, Albert Bramante, confirmed the news of Brown’s passing in a statement to CBS ...

David Simon, creator of “The Wire,” recently told The Baltimore Sun that Republican lawmakers should keep “The Wire” out of their mouths, the newest catchphrase for big shots in Maryland (“David Simon ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...