Burns and Simon to film mini-series on Iraq

Check out this article in the Baltimore Sun about "The Wire" team shifting to making a seven-episode series about the first days of the Iraq War.

Titled, "Generation Kill," after the book by the same name, Burns and Simon are going to be spending much of the summer in Africa filming it. They're also writing all the scripts along with "Kill" author Evan Wright.

Sounds like a perfect avenue for their talents. Nothing needs the hyper-realist eye of Burns-Simon more than the fiasco in Iraq.

The article says that Season Five of "The Wire" will wrap filming in August.