entire series consecutively, and on HBO GO on December 26, 2014. In the United Kingdom, the show has been broadcast on FX until 2009 when the BBC bought terrestrial television rights to The Wire in 2008, when it was broadcast on BBC Two, although controversially it was broadcast at 11:20 pm and catchup was not available on BBC iPlayer. In a world first, British newspaper The Guardian made the first episode of the first season available to stream on its website for a brief period and all episodes were aired in Ireland on the public service channel TG4 approximately six months after the original air dates on HBO. The series became available in Canada in a remastered 16:9 HD format on streaming service CraveTV in late 2014. Home media Every season was released on DVD, and were favorably received, though some critics have faulted them for a lack of special features. The remastered version is on iTunes, and was released as a complete series Blu-ray box set on June 2, 2015. DVD releases See also Crime in Baltimore References Further reading Ryan Twomey, Examining The Wire Authenticity and Curated Realism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Peter L. Beilenson & Patrick A. McGuire, Tapping Into the Wire: The Real Urban Crisis, Johns Hopkins University Press 2013, Sherryl Vint, The Wire. Wayne State University Press 2013, Tiffany Potter (ed.), C. W. Marshall (ed.): The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television. Continuum international Publishing Group 2009, Rafael Alvarez: The Wire: Truth Be Told. Simon & Schuster 2004, Brian G. Rose: The Wire. In: Gary Richard Edgerton (ed.), Jeffrey P. Jones (ed.): The Essential HBO Reader. University of Kentucky Press 2008, , pp. 82–91 () Peter Dreier, John Atlas: The Wire – Bush-Era Fable about America's Urban Poor?. City & Community Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 329–340, September 2009 (online copy) Helena Sheehan, Sheamus Sweeney: The Wire and the World: Narrative and Metanarrative. Jump Cut, 51 (Spring 2009), (online copy) Play or Get Played – Exclusive interviews with David Simon and cast members. Ten Thousand Bullets – An interview with George Pelecanos. George Pelecanos on The Wire and D.C. pulp fiction – A supplement to "Ten Thousand Bullets." "The Rhetoric of The Wire" Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, No.1, 2010 Gang and Drug-Related Homicide: Baltimore's Successful Enforcement Strategy – Ed Burns discusses some of the investigations and individuals which inspired The Wire. A collection of