Livia has engineered the downfall of Julia, who has been banished. Tiberius is recalled to Rome and is joint heir with Postumus. Poor stumbling, stuttering Claudius finds a friend in Herod, king of ...

As the 1976 adaptation of I, Claudius concludes its run on BBC Four, Ben Lawrence suggests how the new HBO version can repeat its success. It has been announced that US TV network HBO has commissioned ...

HBO has signed a deal with BBC Two to remake the 1976 Emmy-winning miniseries I, Claudius. Based on a novel by Robert Graves of the same name, I, Claudius tells the story of the eponymous Roman ...

The news that HBO is planning a mini-series in conjunction with the BBC based on Robert Graves's I, Claudius novels will provoke a gamut of responses. Some, with fond memories of 1976 and the BBC ...

Thirty-five years ago, PBS captivated audiences with the blood-and-sex-laden ancient-Roman soap I Claudius, which is still influential. A new DVD version comes out Tuesday. In a new and occasional ...

Anita Singh joined the Telegraph in 2008, covering television, books, music, film and popular culture, and has written extensively about the BBC. Since 2018 she has been the Telegraph’s chief TV ...

Next week, TV Club will be watching Alan Bleasdale's GBH, guided by John Crace. Join us for discussion on Wednesday March 3 - only a week away, but that's because you can watch the series easily on ...

The making of the 1976 BBC miniseries I, Claudius was fraught with headaches. The spectre of an ill-fated, unfinished 1937 movie version starring Charles Laughton loomed large. At one point, the ...

Rome and its emperors are with us still. What are the “Hunger Games” but a modern version of the gladiator fights-to-the-death with which the emperors pacified unruly citizens? If television had ...

As John Hodgman went through his latest re-watch of I, Claudius, the rise of Caligula as Roman emperor felt as though it held up a mirror to modern-day American politics. "To explain how crazy he is, ...

SINISTER MUSIC plays and a viper slithers across a Roman mosaic. It’s the opening credits of “I, Claudius,” a historical series of the Roman Empire based on the novels by Robert Graves. Uneasy lays ...