https://timey.org/tags/television/ Recent content in Television on Timey.org Hugo en-us Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/skanderbeg-should-be-a-prestige-tv-series-and-nobody-has-made-it/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/skanderbeg-should-be-a-prestige-tv-series-and-nobody-has-made-it/ Every year brings another Roman general, another Tudor court, another Viking. The commissioning meetings clearly have a shortlist and it hasn’t changed since about 2005. Meanwhile there’s a man who held off the biggest military machine in Europe for twenty-five years, from a country you can cross in a day, and he has never had a season of television. His name was Gjergj Kastrioti. The Ottomans called him Iskander Bey, after Alexander, which is how the rest of Europe got Skanderbeg.