We countdown the 100 best TV shows of the last twenty years, starting with shows 100-76.

Early this year, HBO took its Emmy Award-winning historical drama, Rome, off the air, and among those who are still sorely disappointed at the show‘s cancellation is George Lucas, the man behind the highly successful

As Titus Pullo on the historical drama series Rome, Ray Stevenson was known as a man of huge appetites and wild passions.  He depicted an upbeat soldier with morals of a pirate and often lacked a sense of personal responsibility.  Despite being good-natured, he was a beast of a man who ended up becoming a terror to his enemies.  This overall defiant attitude sustained his life through many wars and, evidently, until the end of the series.  Later this year, he’ll be emerging in the silver screen with yet another action war-themed movie.

Kevin McKidd received critical acclaim as one of the stars of the HBO series Rome.  As Lucius Vorenus, he depicted an honorable yet ruthless traditionalist Roman soldier who struggled to balance his personal beliefs, his military duties and the needs of his family.  Although he was considered as a stern and unsympathetic man to the public, he was, in private, a passionate man when it came to his family.  He endured much distress as a result of his conflict with Erastes Fulmen (Lorcan Cranitch) and the loss of his wife Niobe (

Rome is a historical drama filmed in Italy depicting the period of the torturous Roman Republic and its transformation into the Roman Empire. The show also gives light to the civil warfare among conservatives and populists as well as political issues during the historic time.