The Unwatchable Wire

The BBC have confirmed rumours that The Wire is coming to BBC Two:

BBC Two announced today that it will screen the entire five seasons (60 episodes) of one of television’s most critically acclaimed series, The Wire.

It will be the first time it has ever aired on terrestrial television in the UK and the series will be stripped across the week, transmission dates to be announced soon. [...]
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And in one sentence they’ve ensured that I won’t be watching. Stripping the show across the week is a surefire way to kill my interest: I just don’t have room to fit in another five hours a week¹ of television.

If they showed an episode a week I might manage to keep up, but I just know that I’ll end up three and a bit weeks down the line with fifteen episodes eating up space on my DVR before I decide to delete the entire season unwatched. Better not to start.

1. OK, probably more like four-and-a-bit hours given the lack of adverts on the BBC, but the general point stands. ^