Poldark

On the data. THE TWO SERIES ADAPT THE SAME NOVELS, which is the one thing this page exists to say out loud. Both the 1975 run and the 2015 run cover novels one to seven, Ross Poldark through The Angry Tide. They are two separate, complete, independent adaptations made forty years apart with different casts, scripts and production teams. The 2015 series is not a sequel, not a revival of the same continuity and not a later chapter; it starts again at the beginning. A newcomer who watches 1975 and then 2015 is watching the same plot twice, which is the single most common way people bounce off this franchise. WHICH NOVEL GOES WHERE. The 1975 series: novels one to four in series one, five to seven in series two. The 2015 series: one and two, then three and four, then five and six, then seven, then an original story. The 1996 film: novel eight. Nothing has filmed novels nine to twelve. The gap between novels seven and eight has been filmed once, as 2015 series five, from an original script. WHERE THE FOUR SWANS IS SPLIT IS DISPUTED AND MOVES NO COUNT. The official Winston Graham estate site says 2015 series three covers The Black Moon and The Four Swans and series four covers The Angry Tide. Wikipedia says series three covers The Black Moon and the first half of The Four Swans, and series four the second half plus The Angry Tide. Same span across the same two series, different break. Unresolved, and the figures above are not affected either way. THE AMERICAN BROADCAST OF THE 2015 SERIES HAS FEWER PARTS. PBS Masterpiece ran series one as seven parts against the BBC's eight, confirmed by Wikipedia and independently by an Arizona PBS press release, and series two as nine against the BBC's ten, confirmed by two PBS member stations, with a two-hour premiere merging the first two British episodes. So a count built off an American listing comes out at least two low. Forty-three is the count of distinct British broadcast episodes. Whether series three, four and five were also recut for America was not verified, so do not assume they were not. SERIES FIVE IS EIGHT, NOT SEVEN. Episodes seven and eight went out on consecutive nights, Sunday 25 and Monday 26 August 2019, as a bank holiday double bill, and some loose aggregator text treats the pair as one double-length finale and numbers the series as seven. TVmaze and TheTVDB both list two separate episodes and no reliable source publishes the seven. Eight is carried here. THE 1996 FILM IS REAL AND EASY TO MISS, and almost everything about it is argued over. Its year is 1996 by Wikipedia, TheTVDB, TMDB and Encyclopedia.com, and 1995 by the Winston Graham estate's own site; the likeliest reconciliation is a 1995 production and an intended 1995 Christmas slot that slipped to October 1996, though that was not confirmed. Its length is 102 minutes by TMDB and Letterboxd, 105 by Encyclopedia.com, and 60 by TheTVDB, which is a default rather than a measurement. Its broadcaster is ITV, with HTV producing, per Wikipedia, the estate site and TMDB; TheTVDB says BBC One, which cannot be right, because HTV was an ITV franchisee. Sources also split on whether to call it a television film or a pilot episode: it aired once, nothing followed, and this page calls it a film. TVmaze has no entry for it at all, and TheTVDB files it as a season zero special of the 1975 series rather than giving it a record of its own. TheTVDB'S THIRTY-FIVE SPECIALS ARE DISC EXTRAS. Against the 2015 series it lists thirty-five, all but two of them undated behind-the-scenes, costume and cast featurettes. The two that carry dates, The Story So Far on 8 March 2015 and Inside Poldark on 21 August 2016, were not verified as broadcast companion programmes rather than promos, so neither is a row here. TVmaze lists no specials for either series, which is a gap in its coverage rather than a statement that none exist. NO UNAIRED PILOT AND NO REVIVAL. Searched for specifically and neither exists. The 1996 film is sometimes called a pilot and it did air, so it is not an unaired one. Mammoth Screen's executive producer said series five was the last for now and that who knows what the future may bring, which is not a commission. ONE RETROSPECTIVE IS AN EPISODE OF ANOTHER SHOW. The Cult of... series two episode three, broadcast 17 February 2008, is about the 1975 series and interviews its cast. It belongs to that programme, not to this one. A three-minute 1983 regional news interview with Winston Graham survives in the South West Film and Television Archive and is archive footage rather than franchise material.

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