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The Wire

audiovisual digital television tv series major Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • David Simon, creator
  • Ed Burns, creator

Canon Rationale

A major long-form television drama, included for institutional critique, urban sociology, serial structure, police and labor systems, and television-as-novel reception.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 60.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'The Wire'.
  • prize: The Peabody Awards, 'The Wire'.

Audit Flags

version dependency

Completion unit: watch a defined selected-season or selected-episode unit until the full television-series policy is fixed.

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