Writer/Creator of The Wire David Simon Will Speak at UT Tomorrow

David Simon, creator of critic-favorites Homicide: Life on the Streets and The Wire, will be making a stop at the University of Texas tomorrow evening. Simon is delivering the College of Communication’s 2008 William Randolph Hearst Fellow lecture at the Austin City Limits Studio. Simon has won three Peabody awards for his work on Homicide, The Corner and the recently-ended The Wire, and continues to do freelance work for The Washington Post and other publications. He is also putting the finishing touches on a new HBO mini-series, Generation Kill.

It seems that to see The Wire is to love it (and become addicted to it); we were extremely addicted to Homicide: LOTS in the mid-'90s (in the days before DVRs, we stayed in on Friday nights to watch the show - we were that into the Andre Braugher-starring show). This deep viewer connection to such groundbreaking series attests to the impact Simon has had on television history.

The lecture tomorrow is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is needed.