re: I haven't seen The Wire

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But there is no argument that the wire is the most important show ever.

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Actually, it's highly debatable. For instance, please explain to me how a show that depicts drug/thug culture and establishment corruption in Baltimore (a small subset of the U.S. population) has the same level of importance as for example Mad Men which describes an era in our history and the condition of women, marriage, minorities, homosexuals and business practices leading up to modern times. Or Band of Brothers which documents conditions during WWII arguably one of the most important periods in world history. Or The Sopranos, The Shield, Six Feet Under, LOST, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Friends, The Office, Cheers, Seinfeld, Planet Earth, All In the Family, M*A*S*H, Dallas, Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Big Valley, Gun Smoke, the list goes on and on; each of these shows made important contributors in our history and culture. To single out The Wire as the most important show ever with no argument (you presented no evidence in your case for The Wire), is quite frankly ridiculous.

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Simple television awards would be an insult.

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Why? Because it received so few?

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The Nobel Prize for literature is more appropriate.

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Then surely its writers would have won at least one Emmy or Golden Globe award? The Wire was/is a fine show and very well written but it receiving a Nobel Prize for Literature would be about comical as Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.