Ancient Rome: the Rise and Fall of an Empire

[Niedel]

They just never learn (from the BBC site):

The same can be said of costume. So often in depictions of Ancient Rome, the clothes people wear look pristine and spotless. But modern-day clothing doesn't always look like that, so why should Roman? All the clothes in the series need to look worn – even if it means they are grubby. In particular, the battle clothing – the tunics, chain-mail and segmented armour of the Roman army – would have been dull and tarnished, not burnished and shiny.

Sounds like they used the same sets from the Emperor series (Augustus etc.). Oh well. Let us non-Brits know how it was/is.