Rome is an American-British-Italian historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius, and William J. MacDonald. The show's first season originally aired on HBO in the United States between August 28 and November 20, 2005, subsequently being broadcast on the United Kingdom's BBC Two between November 2, 2005 and January 4, 2006, and on Rai Due in Italy between March 17, 2006 and April 28, 2006. The second season aired on HBO in the U.S. from January 14, 2007 to March 25, 2007.
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Rome is an American-British-Italian historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius, and William J. MacDonald. The show's first season originally aired on HBO in the United States between August 28 and November 20, 2005, subsequently being broadcast on the United Kingdom's BBC Two between November 2, 2005 and January 4, 2006, and on Rai Due in Italy between March 17, 2006 and April 28, 2006. The second season aired on HBO in the U.S. from January 14, 2007 to March 25, 2007.
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The series was greenlit after William J. MacDonald and John Milius pitched the idea to HBO as a mini series. HBO then added a writer, after reading three one-hour scripts. The network made it a full-fledged series.[1] In 2002, HBO and the BBC agreed to co-produce a new series based on the events of the "Roman Revolution". Towards that end, the two networks committed a US$100-110 million (£62.7 million pounds) budget to the production of twelve 1-hour episodes, with HBO contributing US$85 million, and the BBC contributing US$15 million.[2] BBC contributed with £800,000 pounds to every episode of Rome in its first season.[3] The last major collaboration effort before Rome, was the Emmy awarded series, Band of Brothers. Rome was and still is the biggest co-produced series with the American film marked in BBC's history. The series also marked the first co-produced series with HBO and BBC, while both companies had worked together in earlier series', the last being Band of Brothers and The Gathering Storm.[4]