Rome: Season 1 [DVD] [2005] [2006]

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The series was also nominated for four British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA), three in season 1 (2006) and one in season 2 (2008).

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Cicero delivers an in-absentia message to the Senate, and then throws his support to Octavian, the new Caesar. For season 2 (2007) Alik Sakharov won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series, for the episode " Passover". Pompey, Brutus, Cicero, Cato, and Scipio discuss the current situation: Caesar has marched on Rome and taken control of the city without meeting with any resistance, and the Senate and the legions loyal to Pompey have withdrawn to the south. Vorenus' and Pullo's showdown with a local thug, Erastes, leads to an unexpected reprieve from Caesar. Both the captive children of Mark Antony, Helios and Selene are given by Octavian to Octavia for rearing.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.

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Pompey's son Quintus enters the tent in which they are meeting, bearing bad news: the man whom Quintus has been having tortured has told them that, after killing Pompey's man Durio and attempting to steal the gold taken from the treasury in the Temple Of Saturn, the entire party had run into Caesar's scouts, including Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, and had been either killed or forced to flee. The sets are amazing, the whole production is so realistic and honest, no glamour, giving a really fascinating insight into the Roman world, apparently sophisticated, but at the same time scheming, in-fighting, loyal and disloyal, charming and savage, kindly and brutal. Ian McNeice as Newsreader (season 2; recurring season 1), a herald announcing state-sponsored news to the citizens of Rome. Atia of the Julii tries to steer her family on the dangerous path between the growing divisions of power, and in the Gallic countryside, two unlikely allies must reclaim that which Caesar has lost. Co-creator Bruno Heller has said, "We try to balance between what people expect from previous portrayals and a naturalistic approach .

The second season chronicles the power struggle between Octavian and Mark Antony following Caesar's assassination, spanning the period from Caesar's death in 44 BC to the suicide of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 B. Une période troublée faite de luttes de pouvoir et de guerres civiles qui commence avec Jules César, Pompée, Cicéron, Brutus et bien d'autres dont la mère d'Octave, Atia, maléfique femme "couguar" manipulatrice à souhait. There is no basis for this character, but he may be meant to represent the younger of Pompey's historical sons Sextus Pompeius. A collection of massive sets in Cinecittà studios' back lots comprised an elaborate "period reconstruction" of sections of ancient Rome. Cassius is worried about the grain supply for their army, whereas Brutus is cheerful and talking about saving the Republic.

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While Pullo descends into Erastes' netherworld, Vorenus negotiates a severance for veteran soldiers. Mark Antony and Cleopatra continually increase their demands in exchange for grain, eventually driving away Octavian's negotiator. citation needed] The show is generally told from the perspective of Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, and while they were real people who were briefly mentioned in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico, almost all of their adventures in the series are fictional. The series also marked the first series on which HBO and the BBC worked together as co-producers, although the two companies had worked together in other roles in earlier series, including Band of Brothers and The Gathering Storm.HBO enlisted the Mozilla Firefox web browser in its marketing campaign for the series by designing a downloadable custom Rome Firefox theme. The second series was never broadcast at all on analog TV; however, starting from October 2009, digital-only channel Rai 4 broadcast the original uncut version of the first series and went on to broadcast the second series unaltered as well. This series is much more about how the psychology of the characters affects history than simply following the history as we know it".

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The real Marcus Junius Brutus was the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, and one of the key figures in the civil wars that followed the assassination. He chose to ally himself with the optimates in opposing Caesar and supporting the traditional Roman Republic. Blending historic figures and settings with the fictional tale of two Roman soldiers, this show is captivating from beginning to end. Mark Antony proposes an amnesty to the rest of the senate to keep the peace and allow the Republic to continue. As good as Rome is -- and it's an epic, multilayered thing of beauty -- it's still not on the level of "The Sopranos" or "The Wire" or "Deadwood.C'est un point sur lequel la série excelle que de nous brosser les traits et contradictions de tels personnages via une interprétation remarquable de tous les acteurs et actrices présents. After the broadcast of only three first-season episodes, HBO announced plans to produce a second season of Rome in 2006, for release in March 2007. Pullo and Vorenus find a grisly means of escape from their predicament, and are presented with an amazing opportunity and a difficult choice. When his reasonable offers are rejected by some of them, he commits sacrilege, breaking the image and declaring himself 'Son of Hades'.