Any serious television junkie -- this side of The Hollywood Reporter-- will tell you that "The Wire" is in the conversation about the greatest TV series of all time. For those who haven't yet gotten ...

(CNN) — Nathan “Bodie” Barksdale, the inspiration behind the show “The Wire,” has died in a federal prison. He was 54. Barksdale passed away from natural causes after being sick for a period of time, ...

In March, just two years after The Wire went dead, the real Avon Barksdale will be brought to the screen in a new documentary, The Avon Barksdale Story—Legends Of The Unwired, which has already won ...

*Former Baltimore gangster Nathan “Bodie” Barksdale, who claimed to be the inspiration for the character Avon Barksdale in “The Wire,” died in a federal medical prison in North Carolina on Saturday.