
Wendell Pierce
According to this
,
's latest HBO project, the New Orleans-based
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
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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