Generation Kill Television Program

Baltimore writer-producers David Simon and Ed Burns will shift their TV storytelling focus this summer from the failed war on drugs in Baltimore to the American invasion of Iraq -- just as they are finishing the final season of HBO's acclaimed drama "The Wire." HBO will begin production in June on "Generation Kill," a seven-hour miniseries based on an award-winning book by Evan Wright about the early days of the war in Iraq. The work originally appeared in a series in Rolling Stone magazine.