Rome 9 p.m. Sunday, HBO Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) With HBO committing at least $100 million for 12 hours of “Rome,” which starts at 9 p.m. Sunday, nothing ...

Caesar is dead. So long live HBO and the second season of “Rome,” the extravagantly expensive series returning this Sunday whose vision of the world’s most notorious empire alternates between “Blade ...

These are HBO Romans – larger, lustier, more violent. “Rome” (making its debut 8 p.m. Sunday on pay digital channel 300) is a 12-week series that Tony Soprano would like.

We exist. And when I say I’m spending my time thinking of the Roman Empire, what I mean is HBO ‘s Rome. I am constantly thinking of HBO’s underrated 2005 historic drama Rome.

Rome is not in ruins yet, but blood runs in the streets, muggings are hardly rare, and, in a moment of pique, Antony slits a political foe's throat as casually as if he were shaking hands.

Octavian is 11 years old and brilliant. That makes sense to Bruno Heller, the HBO show’s principal writer. After all, Octavian later would become Augustus, Rome’s first emperor.