“Rome” offers coitus maximus, and even on HBO, the frequency and variety will ... There’s also violence, and not merely in battle; the incivilities of slavery and primitive medicine are ...

Rome: Drama series. 9 p.m. Sunday. HBO. Let's be crass for a moment ... Hence, your now-historic battle for control of the Empire. Less tied to the books are the stories of those below the ...

This week and next,HBO ‘s “Rome ” winds up its first season with ... was their principal weapon.If you lost your sword in battle,that was bad enough,but if you lost your shield,it would ...

That is a far cry from the substantial ratings the original “Rome” scored when it debuted on HBO Stateside and on ... have at least one big set-piece battle, and continue to feature lots ...

when HBO will decide whether to order a second season. The first three “Rome” episodes, directed by Michael Apted, have not yet been completed. The battle scenes were due to shoot in Bulgaria ...

HBO'S new series "Rome," which makes its debut Sunday, serves up the sex, lies and betrayal that you'd expect from any soap opera. But there's one big difference: The show is set in a time when ...

“Most films, and even TV, is planning for battle,” Heller says ... for example, Rome eating up too much of HBO’s production budget from other projects in 2006. Nonetheless, reports ...

He compares the unique military formations portrayed in "Spartacus," starring Kirk Douglas; "The Eagle," starring Channing Tatum, Donald Sutherland, and Jamie Bell; and HBO's "Rome," starring ...

At HBO and the BBC, all roads lead to “Rome ... the Roman Republic and two years after Crassus was killed in battle. “Rome” finds Caesar at the end of a string of military successes ...