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 ...

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is ...

When I, Claudius aired in 1976, it redefined historical drama. BBC’s low-budget masterpiece brought the decadence, intrigue, and cruelty of ancient Rome to vivid life through sharp writing and ...

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 ...

For American viewers of a certain impressionable age (and some old enough to know better), the original television mini-series “I, Claudius” was an eye-opening introduction to public broadcasting: a ...