Sky Studios, Fifty Fathoms, Cattleya

Kasia Smutniak, Matthew McNulty, Claire Forlani, Christine Bottomley, Colette Dalal Tchantcho, Ben Batt, Nadia Parkes, Liam Cunningham, Benjamin Isaac, Darrell D’Silva, David Avery

Set during one of the most inspiring periods in Roman history, our first season of the historical TV series Domina is set during the reign of Gaius – the famous Caesar Augustus – but told through the incredible true story of his third wife Livia Drusilla, who re-wrote the rules of what a girl could expect from life and rose to be the most powerful woman in the world. We open on the eve of Livia’s first wedding, and we follow her through her exile and return to Rome, determined to regain everything that was stolen from her. Which she does, brilliantly, by marrying the man who stole it. But she makes a lifelong enemy of the woman she displaces, Scribonia. Livia soon discovers that it’s not enough to take power, you must be able to hang onto it when everyone else wants it too. And, like anyone else, you want to leave a legacy.