All News, Television 'Wire' Creator David Simon Doesn't Expect Anyone To Watch His New Series January 30, 2015 Leave a comment “Nobody watched ‘The Wire’ when it was on,” says David Simon, leaning forward with a conspiratorial whisper, sitting at a neat desk in the ersatz office of Harry Oxman, the long-ago vice-mayor of Yonkers, New York. “Nobody watched ‘The Corner.'”