"The Wire" on HBO

do you think this'll be a become a big enough national story that there'll be a bunch of dixon comix on the rightwing cartoonists thread!?

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looking forward to billytheheretic's take on this

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I don't think IMDB is conclusive either way, as the role was so small in the original Season 1 episode it doesn't look like it is credited at all on the IMDB cast list to Denise Hart or otherwise http://www.imdb.com/title/tt074943/fullcredits#cast (unless I've misread it, which is likely :-))

Oh well...

Bell vs. Scott
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998589.html?categoryid=1043&cs=1

he'll play a no-nonsense hire at Dunder Mifflin's corporate office who will throw Michael Scott into turmoil.

by sexxin all the ladies amirite

absolutely

Michael Scott: Shh, just stop. Here's what you do. You tell him that you're his friend and that you're gonna help him and that everyone's gonna be all right. And then you put a wire on him and you find out who's selling him drugs and then you get that guy and you flip up, turn him into a snitch. You follow that guy to the people who's really really bad. Been watching The Wire recently. I don't understand a word of it.

^^ Oh man, let's move this to the OCD television-crossover thread for me and Jaymc!

P.S. Why do I get the feeling Elba will be playing an equivalent of the other-branch manager on the UK version, cool-guy Neil?

It's been a long time since I saw the UK version, so I don't remember Neil, but wasn't the manager of the Stamford Branch supposed to be kind of a cool guy?

i wonder if they'll make any jokes about amy ryan's character that will blow nab's and jaymc's minds

Oh wow, I forgot that this bridge had already been crossed

wasn't there already a version of Neil? at the other dunder mifflin office jim temporarily went to?

Sorry, I didn't watch all of the earlier seasons, maybe I missed it

THIS IS GONNA BE FUCKING AWESOME

The Office getting all the good Wire cast-offs. Eventually they will take over the entire Dunder Mifflin staff. but clearly starting with the hot ones.

Edris Elba's other upcoming project does not look so great: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/obsessed/

So did all the Wire cast members' pink slips have phone numbers on the back for American Remake Of Britishes TV Show Casting CentreCenter, or what

Complete DVD box set is on supersale @ Amazon again:

http://www.amazon.com/Wire-Complete/dp/B001FA1P1W/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1232660451&sr=8-1

$81.99

ch-ching!

btw what is with those "wire prequel" videos on amazon? can't really investigate @ work.

Gah can I resist this? So hard. . .

If they are the ones I am thinking of they are 5 minute vids of young Omar, Prop Joe, and McNulty.

urgh i really don't need it but i want it

i found a torrent that had mp3s of all the DVD commentaries from the first four seasons but nothing for season five yet-- someone bump this thread if they see one plz

damn you merkins, I got that boxset a month ago for the equivalent of $125 :(

Are they called "The Wire Chronicles?" They should these really short, almost-amusing vignettes about, like, Omar and Prop Joe as kids, or when Bunk and McNulty met -- not much to them except mild chuckles about them being very "in character," but they're like a couple minutes each, so it's not a big investment.

Actually to be honest the only worthwhile thing in them is a kid doing a decent impression of Prop Joe's looking-over-one-shoulder mannerism

this deal better last until tomorrow -- just cashed in a gift card from work that takes until then to redeem ffffuck

i just bought this for my sister because her birthday's coming up but i have that sinking i-just-bought-someone-a-present-i-want-for-myself feeling

thats not a sinking feeling homie thats a good feeling--go buy her a flower or something and keep the wire for yourself

omg could i do that?

is that secretly what i did do?

yes you can do that--pretty sure there is a part of the bible about how thats ok

homemade cookies are always a nice present--way better than a boring old set of DVD's

yes you can do this but you have to tell her what you did

that's what happened in the bible anyway

what your sister really wants is for you to happy

she really wants the wire box set; she told me! i have to give it to her

i just ordered this.

xposts ha ha!

buy her a spool of DVD-Rs and invite her to come over and burn your new wire box set any time

make her some wire box set cookies

xerox the boxset artwork

buy her a spool of DVD-Rs and invite her to come over and burn your new wire box set any time

― gr8080, Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:02 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lols this would be awesome

tell her that her edition is actually a super-rare promo copy they sent out to members of SAG

tell her it got stolen

one time i bought her a degrassi dvd set that did get stolen. it was a tragedy.

Was it old Degrassi or new-school Degrassi?

new-school! she's a child; she's never seen old degrassi.