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The Wire cast members Jim True-Frost, Lance Reddick, Dominic West, Clarke Peters, Deirdre Lovejoy, and Sonja Sohn gather around a table in a police office, focused on a laptop. Idris Elba and Robert F. Chew, dressed in suits, stand in a cemetery with gravestones and a car behind them in a scene from the HBO series The Wire.

The Wire: References & Edit History

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Corrected display issue. Sep 25, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Why The Wire is the greatest TV series of the 21st Century. Nov 27, 2025
Article revised. Sep 23, 2025
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