Posted on 07/12/2006 2:01:51 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
LOS ANGELES -- The fall of "Rome" will happen sometime in early 2007.
HBO announced Wednesday that the second season of its epic series set in the time of Caesar will debut Jan. 7. At the same time, the network says next season will be the last for the show.
Filming on season two is currently taking place at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome and will wrap in October. Once that's done, though, the show -- a co-production with the BBC -- will call it quits.
"Rome" was one of the most expensive projects in TV history -- reports pegged the cost of the first season at somewhere around $100 million. Its ratings on HBO were decent (most episodes drew between 2 million and 3 million viewers) but not at the level of "The Sopranos" or, say, "Six Feet Under" in its prime. Last week it was nominated for eight Emmys.
The second season will pick up following the death of Julius Caesar. Most of the principal cast is scheduled to return, including Kevin McKidd, Polly Walker, Ray Stevenson, James Purefoy, Lindsay Duncan and Kerry Condon.
The January premiere date will likely pair the show with the final episodes of "The Sopranos," which are also slated to begin shortly after the new year.
We just watched 2 hours of the latest Deadwood...What a great show. Rome was great. But all these shows are really the Sopranos with different scenary.
Not a bit true. It's highly accurate 19th century dialog, particularly among US frontier mining camps at all levels of social class represented by the characters.
We've been over this before in another thread. Read more 19th century literature. Heck, read the advertisement on the label of a medicine bottle from that period. Read Civil War letters home from the troops written by the authors who were alleged to be simple provincials -- at least as far as the modernists would have you believe.
Actually, though I quibble with the amount of profanity, the manner of speaking is fairly accurate. You have to read some books written during the time to see how close the writers actually come to this style of speaking.
I have a family history written by a relative who received her schooling in the early 1900s. We would call the style a little stilted today, and she was much less formal in person, but it reflects how she was taught one 'should' properly relay information.
Man, nobody in the history of the world has ever talked like that. It sounds like a bunch of posers trying to imitate The Bard.
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That's what's so unique about Deadwood...the Shakesparean-like dialogue. Ever catch one of Swearengen's falatio soliloquys? Absolutely riproritous. Some of the best writing on TV (and movies) delivered by a truly great actor (McShane)
I can only wonder how the future population 125 years from now will communicate with one another; after all, they'll have great grandfathers who wore their caps backwards and their underwear outside their clothes. Even among the middle class youth it's in fashion to speak in the manner of a field slave. We can usually count on society slouching more as the decades roll on, can't we?
Don't even get me started on proper spelling.
Ping.
to #24
You've made the big time again.
I'd like to see how they handle it as compared to the BBC.
Of course they'll never get anyone as good as Derek Jacobi or John Hurt, but who knows.
"I am proud to say the I have never seen an episode of the Sopranos."
Same here....but I am a "24" addict.
Titus Pullo for President!
For me it's the Stargate series, Monk and Battlestar Galactica.
I loved Rome. So sorry to hear this coming season will be the last. The actors are fantastic. Everything about it is great. I used to really love Deadwood too. This past week was really good. The fight etc. . I think the Doctor and Al are my absolute favorite characters.
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Exactly! This show, if it had been done right, could have equalled or surpassed I, Claudius. This show was truly stupid and infantile, trying too hard to titillate and shock.
They tried to make Aetia out to be Livia on steroids. Unforgivable was the incest between Octavius and Octavia, the lesbianism between Octavia and Servilia. The scorned Servilia as the primary organizer of the assasination was pretty bad too. This show was terrible.
You forgot "The Shield".
'Monk' is excellent TV.
Another loser for Time Warner.
"Rome" was outstanding. I hope they fast forward to the battle amongst Mark Antony and Octavian (later Augustus). "Rome" has a fantastic production value, although the best Roman-themed series ever produced was "I, Claudius", which I suspect will never be equaled.
"Entourage" is only 30 minutes & uses LA as a backdrop. Probably one of he cheaper series produced by HBO.
Et tu, HBO?
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