Martin Scorsese and Michael Hirst want to do a tv show called THE CAESARS, about the early rulers of ancient Rome.

I, Claudius who? Rome what? Well, okay, fine, it never stopped anyone in entertainment that there are earlier versions. And given how uninspired the first half of the latest Vikings season came across to me (which is why I haven't ( Read more... )

There will be a NBC miniseries about the Beatles written by Michael "The Tudors" Hirst. . Oh my.

...I'm not sure whether I'm horrordelighted or amusedified or what. The Tudors was such an odd thing: it had elements that were genuinely compelling - Wolsey in season 1, Anne Boleyn in season 2 (but not in s1), Thomas Cromwell ditto -, and then ( Read more... )