There’s also a double helping of shiny new US hit Brothers & Sisters (C4, 8:30pm and 10pm) from Ken Olin, the producer of Thirtysomething. It’s been described as a pensive, sharp and moving grown-up drama, a bit like a less surreal Six Feet Under with a slighty lighter shade of humour and fewer funerals, presumably. The casting is pretty stellar too with Sally Field, Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, Balthazar Getty, Rob Lowe in later episodes etc etc etc. Flockhart thankfully has shed most of her irritating McBealisms.
And then there’s the second and final season of the most expensive TV series of all time, Rome (BBC2, 9pm).
More sexy toga antics with a heavy dose of shagging, carousing and duffings. Caesar lies in a pool of his own claret while Mark Anthony runs about like a girl, trying to avoid his enemies. Atia is at her self-protecting best as she prepares to hitch herself to Antony’s wagon and flee north. Poor old Niobe spends the whole first episode being cried over. Looks set to be another cracking series but such a shame Ciarian Hind’s Caesar had to die. He’s worth re-writing history for.
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