Watch Rome

Derek Jacobi as the stammering emperor and Sian Phillips as Livia; the BBC's 1976 Rome.

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell by candlelight; Hilary Mantel on the BBC.

Rich guests at a luxury resort and a body by the finale; Hawaii, Sicily, Thailand.

Elena and Lila from a Naples courtyard through four novels; Ferrante on HBO and RAI.

Five episodes of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it; the highest-rated series on IMDb.

Mary Beard's thousand years of Rome from a village to an empire, without the togas.

Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.

Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.