I’d watch this. We watched everything we could find on ancient Rome (except the HBO series - NOT for kids!!) before we took our boys there in 2009.
The fact that this a ‘proposal’ for a show disappoints me. I want to watch it now. Oh, however, I don’t have cable, so it will have to go on Netflix Instant Watch or on DVD.
Period pieces with large casts are enormously expensive. The locations, the sets and costumes, a huge cast having to be paid for a year but filming for only six months. “Rome” and “Deadwood” ended because they cost too much.