A caustic and often funny romp set 24 BC during the reign of Augustus Caesar, Rome's first emperor, and ending in AD 54 with Nero on the throne. Claudius (Jacobi) is Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus, grandson of Mark Antony, who bears witness to the ruthless ambition, shocking debauchery and murderous intrigue of his remarkable family. For the most part he escapes their evil scheming by virtue of a stutter and limp that mark him as a fool. A remarkable, ground-breaking series, with towering per find out more...

400 years after the Republic's birth Rome has become the wealthiest city in the world, home to over 1 million people and the epicentre of one of the greatest empires history has ever known, but with this phenomenal success has come corruption and excess, the very principles of Rome's founding fathers are under threat and its time as a Republic is drawing to a close. Rome is a magnificent and full blooded dramatisation of the Empire's rebirth. find out more...

Taking off exactly where Season 1 finished. Passover; Caesar is dead, but Mark Antony is still alive and is convinced by Octavian, via Atia, to stay in Rome. Caesar's will is read out and Octavian and Antony have a quarrel. Friends, Romans, Countrymen Lend Me Your Ear.... (they left that bit out).... and Son of Hades; Lucius Vorenus takes a walk on the dark side. find out more...

These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero; Marcus Agrippa has come to Rome on Octavius's behalf to negotiate with Cicero and Vorenus continues his dark reign over the Aventine. Antony tries to bully Cicero in to handing over Gaul to him, but Cicero baulks and flees to join Octavian. Testudo et Lepus; Octavian's forces defeat, but do not wipe out, Antony's. Vorenus and Pullo rescue the former's children and Brutus and Cassius's forces in Asia Minor grow stronger. find out more...

Heroes of the Republic; Octavian returns to Rome and tries to seize power but risks defeat by the scheming Cicero. Octavian and Antony ally against Brutus and Cicero. Philippi; the battle of Philippi takes place. find out more...

Death Mask; Servilia squats outside Atia's home and Octavian and Antony stitch up a political marriage between the two families. A Necessary Fiction; Octavian takes a bride and Antony returns to Egypt. find out more...

Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus; Antony spends his time wearing make-up, and in bed with Cleopatra, and Atia and Octavia arrive in Egypt only to be humiliatingly rebuffed. De Patre Vostro; following his defeat at Actium, by Agrippa, Antony falls on his sword and Cleopatra has a date with an asp. Finally, while peace reigns in Rome, Caesarion, in true shaggy dog style, finds out his his real dad is! find out more...