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David Simon, Wire veterans go to New Orleans


Wendell Pierce

 

According to this

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,

's latest HBO project, the New Orleans-based

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about the city's musicians post-Katrina, will co-star some familiar face from

The Wire

: Clarke Peters, who played the Det. Lester Freamon and New Orleans native

, who played the beloved Det. "Bunk" Moreland. (It will also co-star former

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C.S.I.: Miami

star Khandi Alexander.)

Simon's current HBO mini-series

is only half-way through its seven episode run, and despite the show's overall positive reviews--including in the

--before it July 13 debut, has since generated less online discussion about the show, sadly echoing many television and movie treatments of the Iraq War.

 

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