This seems like more of a trailer than a teaser. I’m not complaining. I’m actually unimpressed by “teaser trailers” that are just a logo or some words on the screen. It’s nice to see some actual scenes from the movie for a change.

Rome ran for three two seasons and was successful, but extremely expensive to produce. It was a joint production from BBC and HBO. And then there was a huge fire at that burned a bunch of the sets down between seasons. They were lucky to get that last season put together.

I do wonder if modern tech would have made it more easily producible. I mean, we did get Game of Thrones which was hugely expensive and expansive.

Fox was very trigger happy at the time. They canceled a lot of stuff that only ran for one season. It amazes me how quickly a network will dump a promising show. It costs so much to get one up and on the air. You could move the show to another time slot. Or retool it. Or resell it to another network.

Fondant isn’t icing and is cheating when making a cake. It also tastes gross.