Naturally, there will be smartypantses making fun of the make-up; the emperors’ hair will probably get a social media following of its own. Yet the re-showing by the BBC of its greatest-ever television series, I Claudius, later this month, should by rights be the broadcast sensation of the year.

Naturally, there will be smartypantses making fun of the make-up; the emperors’ hair will probably get a social media following of its own. Yet the re-showing by the BBC of its greatest-ever television series, I Claudius, later this month, should by rights be the broadcast sensation of the year.

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What this should also do is make the BBC re-examine its archive. It’s an Aladdin’s cave there, only a fraction of which is on iPlayer. I rarely watch current TV; I pay the licence fee for the archive. And I want lots more of it. Meanwhile, here’s to a 12-part shocker. Hail Caesar!

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I got to watch it back in the day because it was “educational” and I definitely got an education, of sorts.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Great series, great books. I’m currently reading Count Belisarius, also written by Robert Graves. I would love that one turned into a modern series for sure.

    Note: Count Belisarius is not nearly as popular as I Claudius and is nearly a hundred years old, so it took me years to get my hands on a copy.

  • HipPriest@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Be good to rewatch this actually, the wife’s not seen it. She’ll like it when she gets into it I’ll just have to put up with her complaining about it being boring for the first hour or two(iirc the first episode is feature length and doesn’t have much of Derek Jacobi in, so tough sell)