Series Mania: 10 Buzz Titles, From David Simon’s ‘We Own This City’ to Michael Hirst’s ‘Billy the Kid’
variety.comSeries Mania boasts a plethora of riches, including, just for starters, the latest series from “The Wire’s” David Simon, and “Vikings’” Michael Hirst and “The Responder,” starring Martin Freeman, which is already being talked up as the European series of the year.
And it bowed on BBC One in January. The following selection may well not rep the best 10 titles at this year’s Series Mania.
Some of those will only be revealed in a final jury verdict, if then. But the following drama series are certainly sparking large buzz or at least curiosity ahead of this year’s March 18-25 edition of one of Europe’s foremost TV Festivals. “We Own This City,” (International Competition, U.S.)“15 Years Later, 2017 Needs Its Own ‘The Wire,” Variety announced five years ago.
Now it may finally have got one, and through the simplest means possible. “The Wire” creator David Simon and writer George Pelacanos return with a six-hour account of the rise and fall of Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. “The style of any work we do bears a basic similarity,” Simon has said in another context. “We are interested in realism.
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