HBO has greenlit a second season of its new series ROME, reports the trades. The new 12 hourlong episodes will air in 2007.
The first episode, Aug. 28, harvested 8.9 million total viewers over the course of 11 plays on HBO and HBO2 spread across the entire week. The Sunday primetime broadcast scored a 9.1 household rating the best number for a new-season debut episode since the fourth-season premiere of SIX FEET UNDER in 2004.
The new season will start filming in March. The series is a co-production of HBO and the BBC. Bruno Heller, John Milius and William J. Macdonald are co-creators/exec producers. The other exec producers include Anne Thomopoulos, Frank Doelger, Jim Dyer and Eugene Kelly.
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