The Fall and the American show The Wire, crime dramas make for compelling viewing, and we consume them with a passion. In TV dramas, detectives are portrayed as the archetypally 'maverick'." ...

David Simon's The Wire, which aired on HBO from 2002 to 2008, seriously flipped the procedural drama genre on its head. Until ...

At the end of the 20th century, the network introduced the world to two series that would forever change the way crime stories are told: The Wire and ... which follows a detective in a small ...

The Wire is a critically-acclaimed ... and the experiences of his writing partner, former homicide detective Ed Burns. Each character has to deal with their own ethics and the boundaries they are ...