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I live in Baltimore, and filming in East or West Baltimore is the same as visiting: respect the residents and community and don't interfere with (illegal) business and you'll be fine. Filming was omnipresent and part of the city. Now we've just transitioned to House of Cards, which films in other parts of the city to replicate DC.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr homaged his chess lesson in this Ravens game intro for Monday Night Football (starts ~4:20)

Someone on Twitter posted a fascinating document from The Wire's production - a pitch/early show bible for the first season of the show. Lots of really interesting divergences from the course the season would take and references to the show's inspirations (at least one Mamet namecheck, for instance). One of the biggest changes (though a classic first-draft-of-TV-show thing):

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Kima is killed in an equivalent of the Orlando sting-gone-wrong