The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon and Ed Burns and adapted for television by Simon and David Mills. It premiered on premium cable network HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000 and concluded its six-part run on May 21, 2000. The series was released on DVD on July 22, 2003. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries in 2000. The Corner chronicles the life of a family living in poverty amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. "The corner" is at... the junction of West Fayette Street and North Monroe Street . Many actors from The Corner later appeared on David Simon's next television series, The Wire, often playing very different roles, including Clarke Peters, Maria Broom, Corey Parker Robinson, Reg E. Cathey, Clayton LeBouef, Lance Reddick and Delaney Williams. Khandi Alexander would later have a starring role in Simon's latest television series, Treme. A review by Hugh K.
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| On the air: | April 16, 2000-May 21, 2000 |
| Network: | HBO |
| Writers: | David Mills, David Simon |
| Producer: | David Simon, Robert F. Colesberry, David Mills |