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I, Claudius

Specials 2002 - 2023
TV-14

  • 2002-01-01T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 55m
  • 1h 9m (2 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama, War
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

13 episodes

Interviews with the cast and crew. Introduced by George Baker

A documentary recounting the failed 1937 film adaptation.

In 2010, writer/producer Mark Olshaker interviewed his friend Sir Derek Jacobi about his experiences as an actor in the theatre and on screen.

The cast and director present some of their favourite scenes from the series.

Originally the concluding part of the extended broadcast premiere version of Episode 1, it was later split into a separate Episode 2...It is now 9 BC. Livia has poisoned Agrippa and Tiberius is being forced to divorce his wife Vipsania to marry Julia. Neither Tiberius nor Julia are happy with this arrangement and Julia also confesses to Antonia, daughter of Mark Antony and wife of Tiberius' popular brother Drusus Germanicus, that she believes Livia killed Marcellus. Drusus is all for a return to the Republic and Tiberius envies him because he is not stuck in Rome but spear-heading military campaigns in Northern Europe. However, Drusus dies after a fall from his horse. Livia is anxious that Augustus be deified but there is general caution lest it angers the Gods. After Julia has complained of her husband's ill treatment of her, Tiberius is banished from Rome and Augustus sees the future as lying in his young grandsons Lucius and Gaius. Antonia has also borne a child by Drusus: Claudius.

Sir Derek Jacobi remembers the landmark 1976 TV series I, Claudius.

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