Connections

The Wire cast and crew have often collaborated on other projects. The Wire has been referenced in music and in other series. Details of connections to The Wire can be found here.

Television

David Simon

• Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC, 1993-1999 - creator, developed by Tom Fontana)
• The Corner (HBO, 2000 - co-created with Ed Burns, developed with David Mills.)
• Generation Kill (HBO, 2007 - developed with Burns)
• Treme (HBO, 2010-2013 - co-created with Eric Overmyer)
• Show Me a Hero (HBO, 2015 - developed with William F. Zorzi)
• The Deuce (HBO, 2017-2019 - co-created with George Pelecanos)
• The Plot Against America (HBO, 2020 - developed with Burns)
• We Own This City (HBO, 2022 - developed with Pelecanos)

Richard Price

• The Night Of (HBO, 2016)
• The Outsider (HBO, 2019)

Eric Overmyer

• Bosch (Amazon, 2015-2021)
  • Bosch: Legacy (IMDb, 2022)
• The Man in the High Castle (Amazon, 2015-2019)

HBO

Dramas

• Oz (1997-2003, created by Tom Fontana)
• Sex and the City (1998-2004)
• The Sopranos (1999-2007)
• Band of Brothers (2001)
• Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
• Deadwood (2002-2004)
• Carnivale (2003-2005)
• Rome (2005-2007)
• John From Cincinatti (2007)
• Tell Me You Love Me (2007)
• In Treatment (2008-2010)
• Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014)
• The Pacific (2010)
• Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
• True Detective (2016-2019)
• Sharp Objects (2018)
• Perry Mason (2020)
• Mare of Easttown (2021)

Comedies

• Entourage
• Flight of the Conchords
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Lucky Louie
• Veep

Police procedurals

• Law & Order franchise
  • Law & Order (NBC, 1990-2010)
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 1999-present)
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC, 2001-2011)
  • Law & Order: Trial by Jury (NBC, 2005-2006)
• NYPD Blue (ABC, 1993-2005)
• New York Undercover (FOX, 1994-1999)
• Third Watch (NBC, 1999-2005)
• The Beat (UPN, 2000)
• CSI franchise
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS, 2000-2015)
  • CSI: Miami (CBS, 2001-2012)
  • CSI: NY (CBS, 2003-2013)
• The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
• Without a Trace (CBS, 2002-2009)
• Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (CBS, 2003-present)
• The Closer (TNT, 2005-2012)
• Criminal Minds (CBS, 2005-2020)
• New Amsterdam (FOX, 2008 - Eric Overmyer)
• Blue Bloods (CBS, 2010-present)
• Chicago franchise
  • Chicago Fire (NBC, 2012-present)
  • Chicago P.D. (NBC, 2014-present)
  • Chicago Med (NBC, 2015-present)
  • Chicago Justic (NBC, 2017)

Crime drama

• Hack (CBS, 2002-2004)
• Kingpin (NBC, 2003 - David Mills)
• The Kill Point (Spike, 2007)
• The Black Donnellys (NBC, 2007)
• Brotherhood (Showtime, 2006-2008)
• Justified (FX, 2010-2015)
  • Justified: City Primeval (FX, 2023-present)
• Breaking Bad (AMC, 2008-2013)
  • Better Call Saul (Netflix, 2015-2022)
• Boss (Starz, 2011-2012)
• Longmire (A&E/Netflix, 2012-2017)
• Peaky Blinders (BBC, 2013-2022)
• Ray Donovan (FX, 2013-2020)
• Power (Starz, 2014-2020)
  • Power Book II: Ghost (Starz, 2020-present)
  • Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Starz, 2021-present)
  • Power Book IV: Force (Starz, 2022-present)
• Bloodline (Netflix, 2015-2017 - Dennis Lehane)
• Narcos (Netflix, 2015-2017)
• Underground (WGN, 2016-2017)
• Mr. Mercedes (Audience, 2017-2019 - Dennis Lehane)
• Narcos: Mexico (Netflix, 2018-present)
• Snowfall (FX, 2017-2023)

Legal drama

• The Practice (ABC, 1997-2004)
• 100 Centre Street (A&E, 2001-2002)
• Queens Supreme (CBS, 2003)
• The Jury (Fox, 2004 - created by Tom Fontana)
• Close to Home (CBS, 2005-2007)
• Conviction (NBC, 2006)
• Damages (FX/Audience, 2007-2012)
• The Good Wife (CBS, 2009-2015)
• American Crime (CBS, 2015-2017)
• Goliath (Amazon, 2016-present)
• Billions (Showtime, 2016-present)
• The Good Fight (CBS, 2017-present)

Other series

• ER (NBC, 1994-2009)
• New York News (CBS, 1995)
• Deadline (NBC, 2000)
• Rescue Me (FX, 2004-2011)
• Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015)
• The Affair (Showtime, 2014-2019)

Film

Richard Price

• Clockers (1995)
• Shaft (2000)
• Freedomland (2006)
• The Night Of (2016)

Dennis Lehane

• Mystic River (2003)
• Gone, Baby, Gone (2007)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• The Drop (2014)
• Live by Night (2016)

HBO Films

• Strapped (1993)
• Something the Lord Made (2004)
• Everyday People (2004)
• Life Support (2007)

Crime Drama

• Emmett's Mark (2002)
• Paid in Full (2002)
• 4 Life (2007)
• American Gangster (2007)

Other films

• Do The Right Thing (1989)
• Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Music

billy woods

• Marlow, Track 1 from Terror Management(2019)
• Fall Back, Track 6 from Known Unknowns(2017)
• Scales, Track 11 from Today, I Wrote Nothing (2015)

Books

David Simon

• Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
• The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood

Richard Price

• Clockers

George Pelecanos

Novels

• Shoedog (1994)
• Drama City (2005)
• The Night Gardener (2006)
• The Turnaround (2008)
• The Way Home (May 2009)

Nick Stefanos Series

• A Firing Offense (1992)
• Nick's Trip (1993)
• Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go (1995)

D.C. Quartet Series

• The Big Blowdown (1996)
• King Suckerman (1997)
• The Sweet Forever (1998)
• Shame the Devil (2000)

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn Series

• Right as Rain (2001)
• Hell to Pay (2002)
• Soul Circus (2003)
• Hard Revolution (2004)