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The end of a year that has seen television reach a new summit of influence and importance, with the arrival of 2021 on the horizon, provides a moment to look back at the shows that define the medium in the 21st century so far. To that end, as so many of us have spent months of the coronavirus pandemic locked down in…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s finale of HBO’s limited series The Plot Against America "I think we're in a very bad place, and I think that Americans need to be aware of how quickly and how definitively the slide away from democracy and towards totalitarian structures can occur," says The Plo…

FX has had some fantastically descriptive show titles over the years including Nip/Tuck and The Bastard Executioner, but it has also dabbled in slightly less exotic titles such as The Shield and the forthcoming dystopian drama Y and comedy Dave. FX Networks and FX Productions Chairman John Landgraf revealed the inner…

EXCLUSIVE: The fourth annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors will bring together the cast and crew of HBO’s critically acclaimed series, The Wire, for a celebration and presentation of this year's Classic Television Award. In addition, Black-ish/ Grown-ish star and comedian Deon Cole will host the awards…

"I want to be in a place where I can be having a really rich, fulfilling collaboration with people that are ready to do their job," Pablo Schreiber says of what made him so galvanized by the saga and recent death of his Mad Sweeney character in American Gods. "That's what we got on this episode," the actor adds of the…

Reg Cathey, the veteran actor who won an Emmy for playing the owner of longtime Frank Underwood haunt Freddy’s BBQ Joint on Netflix’s House of Cards, has died. He was 59. Details of his death weren’t immediately available. David Simon, creator of HBO drama The Wire and miniseries The Corner, both of which Cathey also…

After all the demonization Chicago and its gun-violence statistics have received from the likes of Donald Trump, Showtime’s The Chi aims to put human faces on the real circumstances. Debuting on January 7, the series created by Lena Waithe is a solid effort that could be quite good if it would get out of its own way…

David Simon and Tom Fontana have multiple cult hits between them, but they say it all started with Homicide: Life on the Street. The two sat down to discuss their history, their shows and how life at HBO has changed in the post-Sopranos age at the ATX TV Fest in Austin Saturday. Fontana says it was Barry Levinson who…

Melvin Williams, notorious as the man behind an illegal drugs empire in 1970s Baltimore who later reformed and ultimately appeared on HBO’s The Wire died this morning at 73 from undisclosed causes. Born in 1941, Williams became involved in the drug trade in the 1960s, first achieving notoriety after helping to quell…

Pablo Schreiber may be notorious now as George 'Pornstache' Mendez in Netflix's Orange is the New Black, but the actor's vast resume also includes a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in Awake and Sing, roles in Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Wire, Weeds, Lords of Dogtown, The Good Wife, Law and Order: SVU and…

As if staring down the barrel of Omar’s shotgun wasn’t enough to make viewers’ knees quake, soon it’ll be in high definition. HBO said today that it has remastered all 60 episodes of its Peabody Award-winning drama The Wire. All five seasons of the gritty Baltimore series will be available in 16×9 full-frame HD for…

During his interview with Brian Williams, Snowden said that, owing to the “beauty of the internet” he can “live life as an American, more or less” while in exile in Russia. Right now, for instance, he said he’s catching up on American TV. Watch…