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What is Homicide: Life on the Street?
Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
What did David Simon do for Homicide: Life on the Street?
David Simon worked as a writer and producer.
What channel was the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street on?
Homicide: Life on the Street ran for seven seasons (122 episodes) on NBC.
What awards did David Simon win for the series Homicide: Life on the Street?
What did David Simon do after the series Homicide: Life on the Street?
After Homicide: Life on the Street, David Simon was the creator, show runner, executive producer and head writer of the HBO drama series The Wire.
What else can you tell me about David Simon besides that he worked on Homicide and The Wire?
In 1997 David Simon co-authored, with Ed Burns, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the true account of a West Baltimore community.
What television show did David Simon decline?
David Simon was asked by Mutrux to write Homicide: Life on the Street's pilot episode but declined, feeling he did not have the necessary expertise.
Did David Simon have any other jobs besides working on TV shows?
David Judah Simon is an American author, journalist, and television writer and producer.

Question: Why did he leave the paper?
Self-contained rewrite: Why did David Simon leave the paper Baltimore Sun?