It is interesting that also here in Italy after Rome broadcast there has been some talk on Caesar going on.
The latest was a "special" on a journal called Focus Storia (Focus history), which is a journal focussing on th epublic diffusion of knowledge in history.

Unfortunately, I've gotta say that what you guys were saying on the BBC show can partly be applied to this special. True, they wrote about all Ceasar's life, but... the accent was mostly on his bribing, on his ruthlessness, on his decimating the Gauls, on his killing the Republic, etc. etc.
Ok... he did all that, but... few or mention at all was given to the fact that he was not the only one to use bribery to win elections, nor was it said of the "nice" dealing of Crassus with the slaves, nor Pompey's being call "young butcher", nor Cato's accepting to bend to not-very-moral behaviours if he thought those might help his republic. And no mention at all of the fact that the Republic was not a democracy in modern terms, but actually more of an oligarchy, where most of the power was in the hands of few people and those people are the "Republicans" that killed the dictator (assumed to be in modern sense in the special) to save "their" Republic.

Ok, it's true that it is hard to make things clear in a few pages, but... it might still be nice to have a little more critical view. Which is not to say that he was a saint, but... if he gave the final blow to the Republic, he had a lot of help from the leading Roman class in the past 50+ years.

Will we have a new perspective maybe by 2075?... I hope... if no new Hitler comes up! ;-)