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…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TCA coverage. Will the new AMC drama Low Winter Sun do for Detroit what HBO’s The Wire did for Baltimore? That’s one of the chief questions looming for the dark, gritty and violent new 10-episode series that premieres August 11 at 10 PM following the Breaking Bad final season…

EXCLUSIVE: Idris Elba, the talented star of Luther and The Wire who has been in play for the past couple months, has just signed with WME for all areas. This comes at a great time for Elba, who is finally poised to get his due as a movie star, I think. He reprises his role as the existentially tortured British…

CAA has signed three senior-level TV writer-producers. Eric Overmyer is the co-creator/executive producer of HBO's Treme. Before collaborating with David Simon on the New Orleans-based series, Overmyer worked with Simon as a producer and writer on The Wire. Overmyer, who comes from UTA, also has worked on the three Law…