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Idris Elba, Laura Linney, Russell Crowe, Ben Kingsley and Ruth Wilson highlight a terrific June for cable and streaming TV drama.

Idris Elba played Stringer Bell in "The Wire."

HBO's Baltimore-set 'The Wire' got a shout-out during Michael Che's "Reparations Emmys" skit at the 70th Emmy Awards.

When HBO’s heralded series “The Wire” went off the air 10 years ago, it wasn't immediately clear that it would be a launching pad for much of the ensemble.

It starts off well, then goes horribly, horribly awry.

Similar to Cary Joji Fukunaga's first film, 2009's haunting "Sin Nombre," which focused on two different groups of people trying to cross the U.S./Mexico border, "Beasts of No Nation," about child soldiers in an unnamed African country (it's left purposefully vague, but was filmed in Ghana) shows us what happens to people handed choiceless choices. And Fukunaga's focus on young people specifically makes the severity of the consequences even more intense—emotionally devastating stories of

From Shailene Woodley and Vin Diesel to Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, the stars of March and April movies run the gamut.

No one on TV does adultery better than Dominic West.

Gilliard joins the cast of "The Walking Dead" and just moved back home to Baltimore

Creator of 'The Wire' testifies to actor's talent from first day on set

Stringer Bell, John Luther, Nelson Mandela and maybe the next James Bond -- the career of Idris Elba is on the rise.

HBO's Baltimore productions "VEEP" and "Game Change" got solid Emmy notice with the comedy earning a best actress nomination for Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the made-for-TV movie about the 2008 presidential election picking up best actor and actress nominations for Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson.

If you want to see the finest new drama of the TV year, tune in BBC America at 10 p.m. Wednesday for the opener of "The Hour," a six-week series starring Dominic West, of "The Wire,

With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.

With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea Monday to conspiracy to sell heroin, it seems like a good time to catch up with what some of the other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.