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Down to 'The Wire' for Crime Drama Writer and producer Ed Burns draws on his experience as a former Baltimore detective to create the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, now in its fifth and final season. It's a crime drama with a central theme of surveillance technology used to capture drug dealers.

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Down to 'The Wire' for Crime Drama

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Writer and producer Ed Burns draws on his experience as a former Baltimore detective to create the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, now in its fifth and final season.

It's a crime drama whose themes revolve around the surveillance technologies used to capture drug dealers.

This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 22, 2006.