Rome (TV series)
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Genre | Historical drama |
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Composer | Jeff Beal |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 22 ( list of episodes ) |
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Running time | 44–65 minutes |
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Release | 28 August 2005 25 March 2007 | –
Rome is a
An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy, the series was filmed in various locations, but most notably in the Cinecittà studios in Rome, Italy. The show, consisting of two seasons for a total of 22 episodes, aired on HBO, and BBC Two from 28 August 2005 to 25 March 2007, and was later released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Rome received largely positive reviews and had a high number of viewers. It received substantial media attention from the start, becoming a ratings success for HBO and the BBC (although the numbers declined considerably in the second season) and being honoured with
Plot overview
The series primarily chronicles the lives and deeds of the rich, powerful, and historically significant, but it also focuses on the lives, fortunes, families, and acquaintances of two common men: Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, fictionalized versions of a pair of Roman soldiers mentioned in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico.[2] The fictional Vorenus and Pullo manage to witness and often influence many of the historical events presented in the series, although some dramatic license is taken.
The first season depicts Julius Caesar's
Cast
Thirty-eight actors are credited in the show's opening credits when they appear, with only Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Kerry Condon and James Purefoy appearing in every episode.
- De Bello Gallico5.44,
- Titus Pullo, a friendly, upbeat, devil-may-care soldier with the morals of a pirate, the appetites of a hedonist, and a total lack of personal responsibility, who discovers hidden ideals and integrity within himself.
- Octavia. She is depicted as a cheerfully amoral and opportunistic manipulator. Her family connections and sexual liaisons have brought her into contact with some of the most powerful individuals in Rome, making her a highly influential figure in Roman society. Atia is very loosely based on the historical figure Atia about whom little detail is known. Rome historical consultant Jonathan Stamp identifies the historical figure Clodiaas the primary basis for the character of Atia.
- optimates in opposing Caesar and supporting the traditional Roman Republic.
- Servilia, mother of Marcus Junius Brutus, and famous lover of Julius Caesar.
- Marcus Junius Brutus, he is portrayed as a young man torn between what he believes is right, and his loyalty and love of a man who has been like a father to him. The real Brutus was the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, and one of the key figures in the civil wars that followed the assassination.
- Gaius Julius Caesar. In season 2, for political reasons she is married to Mark Antony. This is something she did in real life when Antony was newly a widower in 40 BC as part of the Pact of Brundisium, having been ordered by the Senate to set aside the mandatory ten-month term of widowhood after the death of her first husband, Claudius Marcellus.
- Karl Johnson as Porcius Cato (season 1), an extreme traditionalist, against political, social, and moral decay, and a staunch defender of the Roman Republic. The real Cato the Younger was a Roman orator, author and politician who committed suicide to avoid living under Caesar's tyranny.
- plebeianwoman from a large clan. After marrying Lucius Vorenus and giving birth to their two daughters, she functioned as a single parent when Lucius went off to war. After being told (incorrectly) by the army that Vorenus is dead, she embarks on a love affair with her sister's husband, giving birth to a son a few months before a very much alive Vorenus returns home. Convinced he will kill her and all the children should he learn of the affair, she tells Vorenus that the baby Lucius is his grandson by their older daughter and her lover.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, a moderate politician and scholar, faced with trying to save the traditional Republic from the ambitions of the various characters on the show. He is depicted as craven and willing to take any position to save his own skin. The real Cicerowas a Roman politician, writer and orator.
- Roman Emperor.
- Lee Boardman as Timon, a Jewish horse trader who serves as a loyal assassin and bodyguard for Atia. He accepts money as payment but prefers sex with Atia.
- Julius Caesar, and also his friend, aide-de-camp, and confidant in most things personal and professional. As a slave, he will seldom receive credit, but it appears that some of the simpler and more elegant solutions to Caesar's problems come from the mind of Posca. Posca is freed and given a stipend in Caesar's will at the start of the second season. He throws his support behind Antony, but later strategically defects to Octavian.
- Suzanne Bertish as Eleni, Servilia's slave.
- Paul Jesson as Quintus Metellus Scipio, comrade and follower of Cato.
- Octavian.
- Julius Caesar (season 1 & first episode of season 2), who is ambitious but his aims and motives are often kept ambiguous to further complicate the plot and test the personal loyalties of other characters. He advertises himself as a reformer who sides with the plebeians, though he is himself a patrician. He is also merciful to his beaten enemies, genuinely distressed by their deaths, and relieved at their willingness to make peace where a more vindictive individual would have simply killed them.
- Coral Amiga as Vorena the Elder, daughter of Lucius and Niobe.
- Anna Francolini as Clarissa, Niobe's friend.
- Enzo Cilenti as Evander Pulchio (season 1), Lyde's husband and Niobe's brother-in-law, with whom she has an affair.
- Chiara Mastalli as Eirene, Pullo's slave and object of his affection.
- Esther Hall as Lyde, Niobe's sister.
- Sextus Pompeius.
- Lorcan Cranitch as Erastes Fulmen, underworld criminal.
- Haydn Gwynne as Calpurnia, wife of Caesar.
- Guy Henry as Cassius (season 2; recurring season 1), a senator who plots the assassination of Caesar.
- Ian McNeice as Newsreader (season 2; recurring season 1), a herald announcing state-sponsored news to the citizens of Rome.
- Zuleikha Robinson as Gaia (season 2), slave and brothel keeper.
- Lyndsey Marshal as Cleopatra (season 2; guest season 1), portrayed as a hedonistic co-Pharaoh of Egypt, she plots to seduce Caesar to obtain his aid and protection to depose her brother. After Caesar's death, she seeks Mark Antony's protection, thus also becoming Atia's rival.
- Rafi Gavron as Duro (season 2), a slave who attempts to assassinate Atia.
- Nigel Lindsay as Levi (season 2), Timon's brother.
- Michael Nardone as Mascius (season 2, recurring season 1), an old comrade and fellow legionary of Pullo and Vorenus.
- Daniel Cerqueira as Memmio (season 2), captain of underworld gang the Caelians.
- Alan Williams as Acerbo (season 2), captain of the Oppian Colleges.
- Allen Leech as Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (season 2), one of Octavian's chief advisors.
- Camilla Rutherford as Jocasta (season 2), Octavia's friend.
- Alex Wyndham as Gaius Maecenas (season 2), one of Octavian's chief advisors.
- Lepidus(season 2), general under Mark Antony.
Episodes
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
2 | 10 | 14 January 2007 | 25 March 2007 |
Production
Development
Tranter from the BBC has said this about the development of Rome: "It felt like something that could have been developed by us, and HBO felt like natural partners for the BBC".[6][7] On 20 April 2006, Carolyn Strauss, president of HBO announced the development of a second season for Rome.[8]
The filmmakers stressed that they wanted to portray Rome as a gritty and realistic city as opposed to what they call the "Hollyrome" presentation that audiences are used to from other films, with "cleanliness and marble and togas that looked pressed."[9]
Filming
Between March 2004 and May 2005 Rome was filmed in co-production with Rai Fiction in the Italian countryside on Cinecittà studios' six sound stages in Rome. A collection of massive sets in Cinecittà studios' back lots comprised an elaborate "period reconstruction" of sections of ancient Rome.[10] It was a huge undertaking, with an international crew of 350, and more than 50 local Italian interns.
The production is regarded as one of the most expensive in the history of television. Funding was generously employed to recreate an impressively detailed set featuring a number of Roman Villas, the Forum, and a vast slum area of the ancient city of Rome. A significant part of this set was later destroyed by a fire that burned down a portion of the Cinecittà Studios in 2007.[11] According to HBO, the fire started after they had finished filming the second season.[12] A portion of the set was also used in late 2007 by the crew of the long-running BBC sci-fi drama series Doctor Who, for the fourth-season episode "The Fires of Pompeii".
Audio commentary on the Season 1 DVD indicates that many of the
Editing
In a separate move, the BBC also decided to re-edit the first three episodes (all directed by Michael Apted) into two episodes. The BBC claimed that this was because the British audience were more familiar with the history of Rome than their American counterparts and so much of the history was unnecessary; however, Apted claims that the purpose was to boost the ratings by increasing the prominence of the scenes of sex and violence. In an interview with The Times, Apted said:
I'm really pissed off with the BBC for bringing down my first three episodes to two and, in doing so, taking out much of the vital politics. What also makes me very grumpy is that I was told that the cuts had been introduced by the BBC because they thought British viewers already knew the historical background. But all that's happened as far as the viewer is concerned is that it has made Rome hard to follow.[14]
Apted also said that he only learned of the edits by accident, "...a couple of weeks ago when one of the actors told me". Since then, the original uncut Season 1 episodes aired on UKTV Drama, coincident with the UK broadcast of Season 2 on BBC Two.
The Italian broadcast of the series was also marred by controversy. Strong language was removed in the Italian dubbing process; as for the more explicit
Music
Composer Jeff Beal was invited to audition for Rome after he completed work on HBO's Carnivàle. The producers sent him a short edit of season 1 episode 7. From that, Beal began writing a demo score. Based on head writer Bruno Heller's desired gritty pre-Christian feel for the series, and HBO's interest in a non-modern sound, Beal chose to compose and record with live instruments from across the ancient Roman world. For each episode, Beal had about two weeks to work: in the first, he composed for – and recorded – the instruments he performed on the soundtrack. In the second week, he incorporated producer's notes, and orchestrated and recorded the other live instrumental sections.[17]
Broadcast and DVD releases
Rome's first season originally aired on HBO in the United States between 28 August and 20 November 2005, subsequently being broadcast on the United Kingdom's BBC Two between 2 November 2005 and 4 January 2006. The second season aired on HBO in the US from 14 January 2007 to 25 March 2007.
International syndication
The series was launched in the United States on 25 August 2005, at Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles. HBO broadcast the series pilot "
In total, HBO spent about $10 million US$ to promote Rome. HBO enlisted the
A "sanitized" version of the first series of Rome – with toned-down nudity and violence – aired on
Cancellation and future
HBO chairman Chris Albrecht announced in a July 2006 news conference that season two of Rome would be its last, citing the fact that the series (called "notoriously expensive" by Broadcasting & Cable) had been developed under a two-year contract with the BBC that would have been difficult for the BBC to extend due to the series' cost.[28][29] Of the storyline, co-creator Heller said:
I discovered halfway through writing the second season the show was going to end. The second was going to end with the death of Brutus. Third and fourth season would be set in Egypt. Fifth was going to be the rise of the Messiah in Palestine. But because we got the heads-up that the second season would be it, I telescoped the third and fourth season into the second one, which accounts for the blazing speed we go through history near the end. There's certainly more than enough history to go around.[1]
Potential film
In a February 2008 interview with Movieweb.com, actor Ray Stevenson stated that a Rome film was in development, with Heller working on a script.[30] Heller confirmed in December that there was "talk of doing a movie version", adding that "It's moving along. It's not there until it is there. I would love to round that show off".[1] In an April 2009 interview with the Associated Press, actor Kevin McKidd stated the Rome film was "in development", and Lucius Vorenus would likely be a part of it.[31] McKidd said in a later 2009 interview, "There is a script that is being shopped and it's supposedly very good, I haven't seen it, but I am definitely going to be a part of the movie... He is very much alive, so that should be a fun story to tell."[32] In March 2010, Entertainment Weekly stated that Heller had completed the script for Morning Light Productions, the film's financiers, and was now awaiting a director and a studio, since HBO Films "won't be involved".[33][34] However, in a 2011 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Heller indicated the project had stalled – "I'm not holding my breath."[35]
Home media
Rome: The Complete First Season was released as a six-disc Region 1 DVD box set in the United States in 2006, distributed by HBO Home Video. Featuring all 12 episodes, it included features such as episode commentaries, behind-the-scenes footage and making-of features. The set (without the episodic previews and recaps) was also released in Region 2, with the same title.
Season 2 was released in North America in 2007[36] and soon after in Region 2. Rome: The Complete Series was released in November 2009 on Blu-ray in North America.
Impact
Reception
Rome garnered mostly positive reviews. Sean Woods from
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has an approval rating of 83% based on 36 reviews, with an average score of 8.62/10; the critical consensus reads: "Rome builds slowly, but a laborious start delivers rich rewards in the form of decadent sets, delicious drama and a surprising amount of intimacy".[50] The second season has an approval rating of 89% based on 28 reviews, with an average score of 8.05/10; the critical consensus reads: "Pulp meets prestige in Rome’s sensational second season – though its style sometimes outweighs its substance".[51]
Awards and nominations
Capping its successful first season, Rome won four
Award | Year | Category | Nominee/Nominated Episode | Result | Ref. |
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Art Directors Guild Award
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2005 | Excellence in Production Design – Single-Camera Television Series | "The Stolen Eagle" | Won | [58] |
Directors Guild of America Award
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2005 | Outstanding Directing – Drama Series, Night | Michael Apted for "The Stolen Eagle" | Won | [59] |
Primetime Emmy Award
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2006 | Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series | " Kalends of February "
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Won | [60][61] |
Outstanding Costumes for a Series | "Triumph" | Won | |||
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series | " Stealing from Saturn "
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Won | |||
Outstanding Main Title Design | Nominated | [60] | |||
Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic) | "Caesarion" | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) | "Triumph" | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Main Title Theme Music | Nominated | ||||
Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series
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"The Stolen Eagle" | Won | [60][61] | ||
2007 | Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series | " Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man) "
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Won | [62][63] | |
Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series | Alik Sakharov for " Passover "
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Won | |||
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series | " De Patre Vostro (About Your Father) "
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Won | |||
Outstanding Costumes for a Series | "De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)" | Nominated | [62] | ||
Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic) | "De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)" | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) | "Philippi" | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Visual Effects for a Series | "Philippi" | Nominated | |||
Golden Globe Award
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2005 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama | Atia of the Julii
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Nominated | [53][54] |
Best Television Series – Drama | Nominated | ||||
Satellite Award
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2005 | Outstanding Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | Polly Walker as Atia of the Julii | Nominated | [55] |
Outstanding Television Series – Drama | Nominated | ||||
2007 | Best DVD Release of a TV Show | Season 2 | Nominated | ||
Screen Actors Guild Award
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2007 | Outstanding Stunt Cast – Television Series | Nominated | [64] | |
Visual Effects Society Award
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2005
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Outstanding Visual Effects – Broadcast Series | "The Stolen Eagle" | Won | [65] |
Writers Guild of America Award
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2005
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Best Writing – New Television Series | Nominated |
Historical accuracy
The series' major details are generally historically accurate, but many of the minor details were fabricated.[
Co-creator Bruno Heller has said, "We try to balance between what people expect from previous portrayals and a naturalistic approach ... This series is much more about how the psychology of the characters affects history than simply following the history as we know it".[68] Series Historical Consultant Jonathan Stamp also notes that the show aims for "authenticity" rather than "accuracy":[6][67][69]
We did everything we could to make these episodes historically authentic, which meant researching and incorporating every kind of detail we could about the way our characters behaved, the way they interacted, how they dressed and gestured, the kind of streets they walked down, the way they conducted their private and public lives. We were not, however, making a documentary. We were striving for authenticity because it enriches the experience of the drama for the viewer.[6]
See also
- List of films set in ancient Rome
- List of historical drama films
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Further reading
- Monica Silveira Cyrino (ed.): Rome, Season One: History Makes Television. Wiley, 2009, ISBN 9781444301557
- Monica Silveira Cyrino (ed.): Rome Season Two. Edinburgh University Press, 2015, ISBN 9781474400282
External links
- Rome at BBC Online
- Rome at HBO
- Rome at IMDb