Rome

[Numptycorner]

The TV programme. First episode of the first series, blood and guts tastic!

[OrangeHopper]

Its alter ego Deadwood was far superior.

[OrangeHopper]

I read that they start out with swear words of the 1860s but they just fell about laughing.

[Numptycorner]

Hey stop hyjacking my Rome thread!

[OrangeHopper]

It is not being hyjacked. There is a direct relationship between Rome and Deadwood.

HBO where involved in both. Both are fictional series based around true and near true events. Deadwood was originally going to be based in Rome but the BBC and HBO were already working on the Rome idea so it got moved to the USA frontier.

Rome started out a bit stilted but the acting and flow improved with each episode.

All told though, Deadwood was in a difference class and should never have been canned.

[XTC]

Yeah I am halfway through first series of Deadwood and it's great. Especially potty mouth bar owener. Never heard the word c**t used that much especially from such a puritanical country like the US! Why did it get canned?

[OrangeHopper]

Not absolutely sure.

I believe the original writer(s) didn't want to do any more. They had in fact got near to the end of the notable history of Deadwood.

I think they may be making some feature length films but probably not with the original cast.

Suspect WikiPedia or the HBO site will have the answers.

[XTC]

Not absolutely sure.

I believe the original writer(s) didn't want to do any more. They had in fact got near to the end of the notable history of Deadwood.

I think they may be making some feature length films but probably not with the original cast.

Suspect WikiPedia or the HBO site will have the answers.

Oh ok, well in that case I think they did the right thing, going out on top rather than dragging it on and on for years till it's morphed into some commercialised sh*te. So is Deadwood based on true events? I know the Wild Bill shooting was fact, didn't know anything else was.

[OrangeHopper]

Have a look at those sites because one of them tells you who was real, who wasn't, and what they did or did not do in real life.

Calamity Jane gets a bit of a pasting.

[OrangeHopper]

Actually most of the main characters were based on real people.

Chinaman with pig pen, the main whore and the business women were fictional.

Both bar owners and the hotel owner were real as well as Bill, Jane, Bill's sidekick the postman, the sherrif and his business partner, the owner of the theatre and the man who wanted to own all the gold claims.