{"id":92417,"date":"2025-03-10T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=92417"},"modified":"2025-05-23T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:36:21","slug":"rome-2004-hbos-untold-5-season-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/03\/10\/rome-2004-hbos-untold-5-season-story\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Rome<\/em> (2004): HBO&#8217;s Untold 5 Season Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1cIVJD1cmbk?si=Ub41U4RHsVCJjxCz\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Little Wars TV<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 6 Sept 2024<\/p>\n<p>HBO&#8217;s <em>Rome<\/em> is one of the greatest television shows ever made, but the premium network infamously cancelled <em>Rome<\/em> after just two seasons. It is a decision HBO executives later admitted was a mistake. In this video essay, we explore why HBO cancelled <em>Rome<\/em> and what the showrunners envisioned as the full, five-season story arc. Which characters were meant to survive? What historical storylines would have been explored? And what was the show&#8217;s final scene supposed to be at the end of five seasons? <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll unearth interviews with Bruno Heller and William J MacDonald, hear from actors like Kevin McKidd, and attempt to piece together a vision of <em>Rome<\/em>&#8216;s full potential if HBO had not cancelled the show prematurely.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy this video essay about <em>Rome<\/em>, you should check out Greg&#8217;s analysis of another HBO show, <em>The Pacific<\/em>, which remains the most expensive show HBO ever produced. Or how about his complete script rewrite of <em>Napoleon<\/em>, Ridley Scott&#8217;s questionable 2023 film? This is a channel about historical wargames, but wargamers do love a good historical film or show!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Wars TV Published 6 Sept 2024 HBO&#8217;s Rome is one of the greatest television shows ever made, but the premium network infamously cancelled Rome after just two seasons. It is a decision HBO executives later admitted was a mistake. In this video essay, we explore why HBO cancelled Rome and what the showrunners envisioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,7,339,28],"tags":[1566,1340,363,396,561,101],"class_list":["post-92417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-history","category-italy","category-media","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-augustus","tag-corruption","tag-monarchy","tag-rome","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-o2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92418,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92417\/revisions\/92418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}