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"The Wire" creator David Simon unloaded on President Donald Trump Saturday, after the president called Baltimore a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" while criticizing Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings. Simon, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, documented life in Baltimore over five seasons of his HBO series…

Hollywood has been slow in reacting against Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, legislation known as the “heartbeat bill” that prohibits most abortions in the state once doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat. Signed into law this week, the bill – now one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws…

Note: David Simon is the former newspaperman turned TV writer/producer and show creator whose TV work includes Homicide: Life On The Street, The Wire, Treme and The Deuce. He wrote a post on his personal blog The Audacity Of Despair that grasps the conflict of interest charges leveled by writers against agencies in a…

UPDATED with Vice statement: More than 75 current and former writers for HBO have signed a petition calling on Vice Media “to sign a strong union contract” with the WGA. The list includes several high-profile scribes including John Oliver, David Simon, Warren Leight, Tom Fontana, Eric Overmyer and Jesse…

HBO has picked up a new David Simon/Ed Burns miniseries which paints a hypothetical U.S. reality that feels fightingly relevant and less farfetched following the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre. The six-part The Plot Against America, based on the praised Philip Roth novel, comes from Annapurna Pictures and Joe Roth. It…

Former newsman and showrunner for The Wire David Simon had an epic Twitter tweetstorm on Thursday, blaming President Donald Trump for the climate that led to the Annapolis, Maryland shootings at the Capital Gazette newspaper. Simon, who set season five of The Wire at a dramatized Baltimore Sun and used to work for…

Producer David Simon is back on Twitter, and celebrated his return with a lengthy tweetstorm of more than a dozen posts that showed his time away from the service has not dulled his passion for lashing out against perceived wrongs and enemies. Simon, showrunner for The Wire and The Deuce, was originally banned when he…

David Simon and his producing partner Nina K. Noble are known for groundbreaking dramas that shed light on institutional dysfunction and pressing social issues in very different areas of the country. That being said, he has some opinions about the Donald Trump administration. So when he tweeted out that a POTUS…

Drama “commissioning club” Atrium TV has launched a second slate of projects with new dramas from Michael Douglas, Ava DuVernay, David Simon and the producers of Sherlock. Atrium is the brainchild of former Sony Chairman Howard Stringer, DRG CEO Jeremy Fox and MTG EVP/Head of Programming and Content Development Jakob…

Four days after the Golden Globes, the controversy surrounding Globe winner James Franco continues, fueled by more inappropriate behavior accusations in a Los Angeles Times story and Franco’s comments on the issue on The Late Show and on Late Night. In addition to Franco’s awards prospects for his buzzy feature The Dis…

The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC and HBO have partnered for the Diverse Voices Forums, which will run through the 2017/18 academic year. It will feature talent — both in front and behind the camera — from HBO series interacting with USC Annenberg students and faculty to explore the role…

After the White House today suggested ESPN host Jemele Hill’s recent tweet calling President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” is “a “fireable offense,” some noteworthy people came to her defense. Among them: From his history, performance & statements, Pres. Donald Trump is a white supremacist. Please alert HBO i…