
Gladiators: Back from the Dead wouldn’t be your average point-and-stare archaeological fact fest. “Brutal…bloody…spectacular!” cries our narrator in the opening scene, as we watch two tooled-up gladiators going for it in a kind of 300-esque arena (complete with obligatory heavy-metal undertones). By the first 30 seconds it’s already clear you’re not watching an episode of Time Team. Read more on next page.

























