Big Debut For Starz’s ‘Spartacus’ Prequel

COMMENTS (12)

• kicked ass, right on every note. fun to see the characters younger and the seeds that were sowed last season planted. and no, i am not a plant. best series last year, bar none.

  Comment by mambo chicken — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 4:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• I welcome the franchise back and ‘Gods of the Arena’ did not disappoint.

  Comment by Tucker — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 4:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• Chris Albrecht is a genius! He will make that network a big winner as he did HBO!!

  Comment by jonny k — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 4:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• What’s the subscriber base at Starz? I know a million people doesn’t necesarily mean a million subs, but what does it really mean? Can’t gage this number. Feels small to me.

  Comment by AC — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 5:33pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Those numbers seem right on par with Showtime for the most part which has a larger subscriber base than Starz does. I’d say Chris’ gamble on hour-longs rather than comedies might pay off, although to be fair, why he put a show like Party Down on a Friday night, makes you wonder.

    Comment by brick — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 7:39pm PST  Reply to this post

    • Chris wasn’t in charge when the second season of Party Down was ordered. However, he already took over when PD aired in April.

      Comment by Em — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 9:52pm PST  Reply to this post

• Amazing how a glitzy modern TV series can gut all the blood and life from a story about a slave that rose up against Rome to fight for freedom and make it look like a silly contemporary soap opera. I’ll take Howard Fast and Kubrick (even Tony Curtis) over this sad commentary on today’s over-sensationalized cable programming.

  Comment by I Am Spartacus! — Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 12:39am PST  Reply to this post

• Spartacus – absolutely the BEST !!! Don’t ‘cha think that Lucy
  could possibly still be alive???

  Comment by VT — Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 6:22am PST  Reply to this post

  • Yes, of course. We saw her fingers moving. (Plus, she probably didn’t lose the baby either.)
    The traitorous former gladiator guy is going to rescue her from the rubble, I’ll bet, because he knows if he takes care of her his fortune will be assured. She’ll try to get her vengeance on Crixus by doing something bad with that slave he’s in love with b/c only Lucy knows where she is, at the moment.

    Comment by I like Crixus — Thursday January 27, 2011 @ 8:34am PST  Reply to this post

• Props to Dustin Clare (McLeod’s Daughters). The “soap” stuff is sadly thrown in for the same reason there was the arena in Rome. It’s to attract a larger crowd. But it still works overall because it isn’t some lame cop/doc by the numbers pap in which every single plot point is predictable, including female police wearing stilettos, chasing bad guys. AND more of Lucy Lawless never hurt anybody. . ..

  Comment by Juke Early — Wednesday January 26, 2011 @ 1:57am PST  Reply to this post

• great story line but to me all the porn spoils it. I watched the one episode of gods of the arena and I found it digusting…haven’t watched it since. why can’t you be creative and leave some of it to the imagination like the great film makers of the past.

  Comment by diane krause — Sunday February 27, 2011 @ 5:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• Great reaction to the unfortunate cancer ailment of Andy Whitefield. I salute your creativity!

  Comment by DUHI — Monday November 14, 2011 @ 1:41am PST  Reply to this post