Spartacus: Blood and Sand - the goriest, most red-blooded series the law and human decency will allow...

Bravo has started showing a series based on an unnamed Thracian soldier, and follows his ludicrously gory battles, not to mention numerous scenes of a somewhat sexual theme.
Being a fairly squeamish viewer with an aversion to anything where "roughly every 30 seconds someone gets an axe or sword in the face", I'm going to give it a miss.
Nonetheless, Phelim O'Neill's review and Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn in the Guardian are very entertaining.