SEASON 5 GOODIES

Sorry, this site hasn't been updated in a while, but a slew of Season 5 goodies have come in over the last few weeks and here are the links.

ED BURNS FRESH AIR INTERVIEW ON NPR

Ed mostly talks about Season 4, as this interview was recorded a year ago

NEW YORKER ARTICLE ON DAVID SIMON

Lengthy and pretty comprehensive. Be Warned - the article has some possible spoilers

SEASON 5 PROMOS via YOUTUBE

Season 5 is going to be SICK.

Little Big Screen Blog Post

Looks like the winners are those with HBO ON DEMAND

Post your thoughts in the comments section.

SEASON 4 DVD BOX SET

Looks like Season 4 of The Wire will be available on DVD Dec. 4th, according to Amazon.com. YEAH - Just in time for Christmas. I think most Wire fans are in dire need of a re-up. Hopefully the DVDs will hold us all over until season 5 starts in Oh Eight. Here's the cover. DOOOOOKIEEEEEEE!!!! Man, I want to hang out with those corner boys and play pranks on corrupt cops all summer long. Thanks to Keith for the scoop!

Lance Reddick Joins the Cast of Lost

Lance Reddick, who plays Lt. Cedric Daniels (seasons 1-4), has been added to the cast of Lost. I guess this gives me an excuse to start watching Lost and decide for myself which show on TV is the "Greatest" - so far the consensus amongst friends, critics and co-workers shows a three-way tie between The Wire, Lost, and Battlestar Galactica. via BWE.

Season 5 News

Idolator (via The New Yorker) reported today that musician Steve Earle will perform the theme song for the 5th and final season of The Wire.

Remember, Steve also played a recovering drug addict in season one. Honestly, his speech during the narcotics anonyomous meeting was one of the highlights of the season for me and his re-appearance in season 4 was more than welcome.

For real, I thought he was an unknown actor who was a real-life recovering drug addict. Well, maybe Steve Earl is a recovering addict . . . I've yet to read his bio.

RANDY and CHEESE

I was browsing the wikipedia entries on The Wire and discovered that both Randy (from the schools) and Cheese (Prop Joe's crew) share the last name of Wagstaff. Now, I'm pretty sure that the show has never revealed the full names of either of these characters (maybe in quick passing) so it came as a bit of a revelation to me that both of these characters have the same surname. Is there a possible connection to be explored for Season 5 or is this purely coincidental?

Human Giant: Gbenga Akinnagbe Interview

Alright, I'm going to hit the ground running with this blog. Here's an interview with Gbenga Akkinagbe, who plays Chris Partlow on the show. Chris is Snoop's partner in crime, a general bad-ass extraordinaire/soldier in Marlo Stansfield's crew.

This interview was part of the 24 hour Human Giant Take Over thing that happened last weekend. I won't spoil anything from the interview, but I will say that it is AWESOME that the Human Giant (one of my favorite things going on right now - saw some live shows at the LA UCB Theater, digressing) gives some mad propers to the greatest show on TV right now.

Watch it here.

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