After last week’s episode the Internet jury is still out on whether Ross Poldark is a rapist. Some of the audience think not, others think so. A drama about sexy mining has suddenly become a sex-offending minefield. Seeing the reaction over the past week has been like watching 12 Angry Men, if 12 Angry Men … >
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If there’s one thing to learn from tonight’s Poldark, it’s this: there just aren’t enough gun-toting old women on TV. So thank goodness for Aunt Agatha, the pistol-packing pensioner who’s ready for anything. Provided that that ‘anything’ needs to be shot at, or have a biting quip that would make Noel Coward cock an eyebrow … >
Poldark is back! Aidan Turner (The Hobbit) is back as Ross Poldark, alongside Eleanor Tomlinson as his wife Demelza, in ten new episodes of the Cornish period drama. Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon here. Buy Season 1 digitally on BBC Store here. The second season is airing at 9pm on Sunday nights on BBC … >
Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas! Comes earlier every year, doesn’t it? It’s been announced that ITV’s Victoria is getting a Christmas special in December 2017, but Poldark is the drama that’s bold enough to bring you Christmas in October, just like all the big shops do. No Christmas trees though, because as history buffs will … >
We’re going to start at the end this week, and with a warning: be careful what you wish for. A couple of weeks ago, in my Episode 3 review I said this: ‘This is twice in two weeks that we’ve thought someone dead only for them not to be. The next time someone appears to kick … >
As welcome as a free orange to a scurvy-afflicted local, Poldark comes along to cheer up viewers with a resolutely feel-good hour of TV. It might not seem that way at first: Wheal Leisure’s workers are feeling rather unWheal (unWheal…unwell?…nope, you’re right, I’ll get me coat) and Dr. Enys can’t figure out why. You may … >
The new season of Cornish period drama Poldark continues on BBC One this weekend. In the fourth episode of Season 2, Ross begins to think that exiled miner Mark Daniel might have come across a copper lode when hiding out in Wheal Grace. Meanwhile, knowing he could bankrupt them at any time, Elizabeth attempts to keep George sweet. Buy Season 1 … >
Attention readers, it’s time to MINE YOUR WAY TO SAVINGS at Ross Poldark’s BLACK FRIDAY SALE! For this weekend only at Nampara there are BARGAINS GALORE to be had on EVERYTHING to do with Ross Poldark! SAVE SHILLINGS on anything from livestock to soft furnishings! Cockerels and goats for pennies! Rugs for under a fiver! … >
The new season of Cornish period drama Poldark continues on BBC One this weekend. In the third episode of Season 2, Ross (Aidan Turner) plans to expand Wheal Leisure and persuades the other shareholders to invest in a new tunnelling scheme. Meanwhile, Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) continues to hide her pregnancy from Ross, believing that he does not want the child. … >