The Wire creator David Simon to make Hurricane Katrina drama

telegraph.co.uk

May. 20, 2009

David Simon the creator of the acclaimed television series The Wire is making a drama using Hurricane Katrina as an allegory for recent financial and social turmoil in the US.

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