Plebs (2013)

Ancient Rome as a roommate comedy. Marcus, Stylax and their slave Grumio are new arrivals from the provinces trying to get ahead in the big city, and the show's whole trick is having them talk like modern guys about dates, bosses and rent while surrounded by togas and amphorae. It ran for five series on ITV2 from 2013 to 2019, then signed off with a feature-length special, Plebs: Soldiers of Rome, in 2022, in which the boys join the army in peacetime. The tone stays cheerfully low-brow throughout: think a Roman Inbetweeners rather than a lecture on the Republic.