The Wire Almost Had A Spinoff About This Major Character — cinemablend.com

David Simon said HBO wasn’t putting the producers in the ringer for the non-outstanding ratings early in the show’s run, but they apparently weren’t looking to pour an entirely new budget into this still-molding drama. Here’s how he put it to BuzzFeed News at a reunion event for PaleyFest. Simon also teased another topic the show might have tackled if things had worked out differently: immigration. Giving HBO credit for keeping them on as long as they did, he told Variety things got testy near the end.

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