which asks: What if Ashur (
Nick Tarabay) hadn't died on Mount Vesuvius at the end of
Spartacus: Vengeance?
And what if he had been gifted the

gladiator school once owned by
Batiatusin return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and
putting an end to the slave rebellion? Beside
Lucy
Lawless who will return later this Autumn as Lucretia in flashbacks, the cast will have
Graham McTavish, who
takes a leading role alongside Tarabay as

Korris, Ashur's Doctore, the
lead trainer of the gladiators in the Ludus, an ex-gladiator who won his
freedom in the arena. There are also
Tenika Davis (as

Achillia, a
gladiatrix who's determined to surpass her male counterparts and win
her freedom),
Jamaica Vaughan (as Hilara, an elevated house slave

who's
in love with Ashur),
Ivana Baquero (as Messia, a house slave in love with Hilara)
, Jordi Webber,
(as Tarchon, a brash gladiator),
Claudia
Black (as Cossutia, a
politician plotting Ashur's downfall),
India Shaw-Smith (as Viridia,
Cossutia’s daughter) and
Leigh Gill (as Satyrus, the leader

of the Brothers Ferox, which are the gladiators from a rival Ludus. ).
Jackson Gallagher will appear as Caesar alongside
Dan Hamill as Celadus,
Andrew McFarlane as Gabinius, JaimeSlater as Cornelia,
Simon Arblaster as Proculus,
Arlo Gibson as Opiter, Cameron Rhodes as Uvidus,
Evander Brown as Ephesius,
Graham Vincent as Hedylus,
Louis Hunter as Erato, Donald Ross as Salvius, and
Duane Wichman Evans as Dacus! The series will have ten episodes.