The Wire Seasson 4 x265 [Alex]

Playwright and television writer/producer Eric Overmyer joined the crew of The Wire in the show's fourth season as a consulting producer and writer.[2] He had previously worked on Homicide. Overmyer was brought into the full-time production staff to replace George Pelecanos who scaled back his involvement to concentrate on his next book and worked on the fourth season solely as a writer.[3] Emmy-award winner, Homicide and The Corner writer and college friend of Simon David Mills also joined the writing staff in the fourth season.[2] Regular writer Ed Burns also became a producer on The Wire in the show's fourth season.[2]