The Show’s Roots: A Forgotten Mini-Series
While The Wire was always cheated out of an Emmy award, Simon did nab four Emmy nominations and won Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Writing, and Outstanding Directing for the critically-acclaimed by mostly forgotten 2000 mini-series called The Corner, which was based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood written by Ed Burns and David Simon.
The Corner was about drug- and poverty-stricken West Baltimore, but it didn’t just overlap thematically with The Wire. The miniseries and The Wire also shared a number of cast members, including Lance Reddick (Lt. Cedric Daniels), and Clarke Peters (Detective Lester Freamon).
