The Wire's 'Snoop' Busted in Baltimore Drug Raids

Snoop avoids jail time with plea deal

(NEWSER) - Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, best known for playing a drug-gang hit woman of the same name on The Wire, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin. The 31-year-old actress was arrested along with dozens of others earlier this year after a federal-state wiretap of a Baltimore drug ring. She has received a suspended seven-year sentence with credit for time served under a plea deal made a day before her trial was due to begin, AP reports. More»

Or at least a movie, pleads Eric Holder

(NEWSER) - The nation's top lawyer has it out for David Simon. AG Eric Holder yesterday ordered the creator of The Wire to start working on another season of the HBO crime drama—and jokingly reminded him that "I have a lot of power." Holder issued his plea to Simon and Ed Burns while appearing alongside three Wire stars at a Justice Department conference focusing on protecting children from drug abuse and exploitation, Reuters reports. More»

'Wire" creator David Simon scores with new series set in Big Easy

(NEWSER) - Critics seem thrilled with Wire creator David Simon's new HBO series Treme, about post-Katrina New Orleans:

• Dave Walker, New Orleans Times-Picayune : "This is the screen depiction that New Orleans deserves, has always desired, but has been denied."
• Locals want to know two things: "Is it real? and Is it good?" writes Kevin Allman for the Best of New Orleans Blog . "It’s as real as any television show ever about New Orleans" and "it’s already good…and it stands the chance of being great."

Final season 'paints realistic portrait of newsroom'

(NEWSER) - Entering its last season, HBO's urban drama The Wire "succeeds strikingly at getting what's wrong just right," Tom Shales writes in the Washington Post. “Written and acted to the highest standards of the best TV drama,” the show has dealt with drugs, job loss, and school troubles, and now explores the trials of a major newspaper. More»

Some calling for HBO boycott

(NEWSER) - Staunch atheist Bill Maher is apparently not a huge fan of staunch Christian Tim Tebow, so when Tebow’s Broncos lost to the Buffalo Bills 40-14 on Saturday, Maher wasted no time getting on Twitter. “Wow, Jesus just fucked #TimTebow bad! And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere in hell Satan is tebowing , saying to Hitler ‘Hey, Buffalo's killing them,’” Maher tweeted . More»