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''Plebs'' is a British television series broadcast on ITV2.〔(British Comedy Guide ). Accessed 28 March 2013〕 It was first broadcast in March 2013, and is produced by Tom Basden, Caroline Leddy, Sam Leifer and Teddy Leifer. It stars Joel Fry, Tom Rosenthal and Ryan Sampson, who play young residents of ancient Rome. The format has been compared to ''The Inbetweeners'', ''Up Pompeii'' and ''Blackadder''.〔("How Plebs gets laughs from the past", ''The Guardian'' - TV and Radio Blog, 26 March 2013 ). Accessed 9 May 2013〕 The first two episodes were shown on 25 March 2013. On 20 March 2015, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a third series. The style is contemporary and anachronistically uses modern language especially by the character Stylax. The series uses predominantly ska music during all the opening and closing titles and during each episode as background music. ==Premise== "When in Rome do as the Romans do"- Ancient Rome is traditionally imagined as the home of emperors and senators, generals and gladiators, and a dignified theatre of pomp and ceremony. ''Plebs'' follows the lives of three desperate young men from the lower classes as they try to participate in sexual intercourse, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city. Two are free men: Marcus (Rosenthal) and Stylax (Fry), who work in a scriptorium in the company of a female manager, Flavia (Doon MacKichan),〔("Doon Mackichan: When Smack The Pony fans see me they say: ‘She looks really old. Maybe it’s her grandma.’", ''Metro'' ). Accessed 23 Sept 2014〕 the water-carrier Aurelius (Tom Basden), and communications officer Claudius (Adrian Scarborough); the third leading character, Grumio (Sampson), is their lazy slave with an attitude problem. Marcus and Stylax live next door to two Britons, Cynthia (Colquhoun), an aspiring actress, and her slave Metella (Bewley). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plebs (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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