Dubbing The Wire into German

Here's an interesting article On the dubbing of “The Wire” in German. It doesn't contain spoilers, so if you haven't watched it yet you can still appreciate the difficulties of translating a show with so much slang and local dialects. In fact, most Americans I know watched it with closed captioning turned on because often it was hard to make out what was said.

If you want more The Wire stuff, here's a 3 hour podcast on the series. I haven't listend yet myself, but will soon.