TV Shows Like Rome
If you like Rome, here are 10 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
HBO · Action & Adventure · Rome is cancelled
Rome draws its power from the granular details of power. It does not treat the fall of the Republic as an abstract historical moment but as something lived and suffered by real people, from generals to slaves to the merchants caught between their ambitions. What makes the show stick is this dual focus: the personal consequences of political upheaval, the way a betrayal at the top ripples down through the streets. Fans of Rome tend to want that same weight and specificity in their next show. They are looking for stories where stakes feel material, where the pursuit of power costs something, where you understand not just what happened but why people made the choices they did.
The best shows like Rome
1. The Day of the Jackal
Where Rome shows the chaos of political struggle on a grand scale, The Day of the Jackal narrows the lens to a single, meticulous operative moving through the world. Both shows are interested in the mentality of people willing to destroy others to achieve their ends, and in the cat-and-mouse games that power creates.
Likely Renewed90%
2. Spartacus: House of Ashur
Ashur clawing his way from slave to master mirrors the brutal social climbing at the heart of Rome. The show shares Rome's focus on how people survive and manipulate within rigid hierarchies, told with the same intensity and refusal to look away from the violence of ambition.
Stream on Starz Apple TV Channel, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz, Philo
Likely Renewed72%
3. The Borgias
The Borgias is essentially Rome transplanted to Renaissance Italy, following a patriarch's ruthless climb to supreme power and his family's hunger to keep it. Like Rome, it is fascinated by how corruption spreads from the top and by the way intimacy and politics twist around each other in families bound by ambition.
Stream on fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Paramount+ Amazon Channel
Cancelled0%
4. The Terminal List
Where Rome explores the fracturing of institutions and loyalty, The Terminal List follows a man severed entirely from institutional order, using his training to hunt down those responsible for his losses. Both shows center on men shaped by their world who then reshape it through force and cunning.
Stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Renewed100%
5. Into the Badlands
Into the Badlands shares Rome's interest in a world governed by codes of honor and power, where warriors must navigate complex hierarchies and alliances. Both shows ground their action in a coherent social order where every blow carries political weight.
Stream on Amazon Prime Video, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+
Cancelled0%
More on shows like Rome
The recommendations here divide into two camps. The first group (The Borgias and The Day of the Jackal) continues Rome's exploration of ruthless ambition in richly detailed historical or near-contemporary settings. Both are fascinated by men willing to do terrible things in service of their goals, and both let you see the world from the perspective of someone clawing upward. The second group (Spartacus: House of Ashur, The Terminal List, Into the Badlands) takes a different angle. They keep the action and the violence, the sense of physical stakes and danger, but they shift the focus from political scheming to direct confrontation. Ashur builds power from nothing. Reece hunts those who wronged him. The great warrior in Badlands walks a world of martial codes. These shows have the texture of lived experience that Rome gets right, even if the settings scatter across centuries and continents.
What unites them is a refusal to soft-pedal the cost of what their characters do. Rome is not nostalgic about the Republic. It does not romanticize the violence or the cruelty. These other shows carry that same unflinching approach. They show you people who do terrible things and make you reckon with why. If you loved Rome for its mix of intimate human drama and large historical forces, any of these will feel like recognizable territory. If you came for the betrayals and the rise to power, you will find echoes of that hunger in most of them. The settings are different, but the essential thing is the same: watching people want something badly enough to reshape the world around them, and watching what that costs.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Rome?
- The Day of the Jackal is the most popular show similar to Rome in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Rome still on the air?
- Of the 10 shows similar to Rome listed here, 1 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Rome?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.