- 12/7/12 /
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What TV Showrunners’ Cameos Say About Their Shows
Dan Harmon on Community, Matt Groening in Futurama, Carl Reiner on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and more.
David Simon
- 11/29/12 /
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Seitz Takes the David Simon Challenge and Reviews Treme Season Three As a Whole
TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz reviews the whole, rather than the parts. What say you, David Simon?
- 9/24/12 /
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HBO and Treme Agree on Shortened Final Season
Somewhere around five episodes.
- 8/17/12 /
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David Simon Not a Mitt Romney Fan, Shockingly
Pick your jaw up off the floor.
- 6/5/12 /
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David Simon Enjoyed the Wire Musical
"Someone hand me a burner and Sondheim's number."
- 4/25/12 /
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David Simon Is Blogging Now
Deep breaths, Wire fans.
- 4/12/12 /
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The Sum and the Parts: In Defense of TV Recaps
In which our TV critic, Matt Zoller Seitz, tells you why recaps and overnight reviews are essential and good.
- 4/6/12 /
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David Simon Semi-Apologizes for Obnoxious Times Interview
America's ultimate hipster offers a halfhearted explanation for his churlish remarks.
- 4/5/12 /
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Why David Simon Is the Ultimate Hipster
He was into The Wire before you.
- 3/26/12 /
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The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years, the Finals: The Wire vs. The Sopranos
New York Magazine TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz makes the final call.
- 1/20/12 /
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Treme Won’t Be Back Until the Fall
Patience is a virtue.
- 11/4/11 /
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The End for Treme
The fourth season will be the show's last.
- 8/31/11 /
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Novelist Laura Lippman on Her New Book and Morbid Imagination
"I think I’m part of a generation of crime writers, all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we’d chosen this very conservative genre."
- 7/7/11 /
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David Simon: ‘You’re Gonna Die, and Everyone You Love and Care About Is Gonna Die’
So in the mean time, watch 'Treme.'
- 4/18/11 /
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Hear David Simon Play Some Fifties-TV Trivia on ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me’
He doesn't do too well.
- 11/9/10 /
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David Simon Realizes That Joe Biden Is a Tough Act to Follow
The creator of 'The Wire' is forced to go immediately after the vice-president at a conference, and speaks to an empty room.
- 9/28/10 /
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Jason Schwartzman Not Even Famous Enough to Have Pizza Delivered
Plus: Mark Ronson to say horrible things about self.
- 9/28/10 /
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David Simon, 22 Others Officially Designated ‘Geniuses’
Winning the $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."
- 4/13/10 /
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Treme Gets a Second Season Already
Good news for fans of Steve Zahn's butt.
- 4/9/10 /
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Nussbaum: David Simon As Irascible As Ever
Just because critics are throwing out words like "humor" and "uplifting" doesn't mean the 'Treme' creator's lost his edge.
- 4/2/10 /
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Nussbaum's Conversation with David Mills
The longtime David Simon collaborator recently died after an aneurysm while filming a scene at Cafe du Monde. What follows are excerpts from an interview conducted just two months before his death.
- 3/29/10 /
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Watch a Fourteen-Minute Behind-the-Scenes Look at Treme
An in-depth look at the making of David Simon's upcoming HBO show.
- 3/19/10 /
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Is David Simon’s New Show Secretly Uplifting?
"A show about people, artists for the most part, whose daily lives depend upon the free exercise of their wills to create — out of nothing, out of moments — something beautiful."
- 3/17/10 /
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The New New Treme Trailer: Walter Sobchak Spotted in New Orleans
We hadn't realized a show by 'Wire' creator David Simon set in post-Katrina New Orleans could be this much fun.
- 3/15/10 /
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Treme Trailer: New Orleans, Melissa Leo, Sunbathing Trombones — and More!
No plot specifics, but lots of shots of things we like.