Poldark on PBS 2015
May 19, 2014 at 1:34pm Edited
I must tell D!!! He'll be really excited to check it out, got really sucked into the drama of the original storyline!
May 19, 2014 at 2:25pm Edited
I loved it in the 1970s. I'll watch the new version, although I don't see how the new guy could be any sexier than Robin Ellis.
May 19, 2014 at 3:09pm Edited
But see - Robin Ellis is the new Reverend Halse, so it'll still 'sizzle'... ;-)
May 19, 2014 at 3:12pm Edited
oh, look who's the new Demelza
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/poldark-star-robin-ellis-appear-3401846
article on Ellis
http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/469559/Robin-Ellis-My-return-to-Poldark-the-remake
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/poldark-star-robin-ellis-appear-3401846
article on Ellis
http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/469559/Robin-Ellis-My-return-to-Poldark-the-remake
Oh my! I was just looking at Poldark on Netflix the other day. Loved it, loved the books. I hope the new one will be as good.
I remember the old series outdoor scenes in Cornwall. Spectacular setting.
How many episodes were there in the original? And is it available online?
The article Joanne posted said the original had 29 episodes. Don't know if they are available. It also mentioned that Robin Ellis lives in France and writes cookbooks. He is supposed to have a cameo part in the new version.
Peggy, I could see if D can do a version for your TV from our copies, if you like. I know he had to search for quite a while to find them.
They had the old ones on Netflix a few years back.Not sure if they still do. Was quite fun watching them.
Netflix has (some?) on DVD. Amazon seems to have (some?) for streaming, as does Acorn? Anyhow, there are lots of listings from Google search for "streaming Poldark," no clue which are useful or legit.
No need, Joanne, but thank you for offering D's services. 
I was wondering only because I doubt they will do a marathon of the old ones before the new one starts, when there were that many episodes.
I was wondering only because I doubt they will do a marathon of the old ones before the new one starts, when there were that many episodes. Broadcast quality is quite poor, as I think was mentioned above. Then there's the conversion factor for TV system, which may further lessen what you land up with. It's so much easier now so much of it digital to begin with.
I loved Poldark! But Aidan Turner... he played a dwarf in The Hobbit, right?!
deborahg said:
I loved Poldark! But Aidan Turner... he played a dwarf in The Hobbit, right?!
Yep this one.
Yes, I noticed that last night before Wolf Hall. Great season for Anglophiles!
deborahg said:
The hot dead dwarf. Hm.
Dead? So I guess that means he dies in the last movie, the Five Armies one? I haven't seen it yet.
Wolf Hall was great. For anyone who is interested in Tudor history, it was a wonderful insight into the personalities (or possible personalities, because who really knows?) of the men surrounding Henry VIII who wielded the power, for a time.
Apr 6, 2015 at 8:28am Edited
I thought that Thomas Cromwell was a bit cheeky when he talked with (the powerful and scary) King Henry and seemed unafraid to do so. Henry seemed to take in Cromwell's remarks quite calmly.
He was. I suspect we are meant to think that impressed Henry favorably.
It has always astonished me that Cromwell showed great loyalty to Cardinal Wolsey, even after Wolsey failed to secure the divorce so Henry could marry Anne Boleyn and Henry (and Anne) began to hate him (eventually executing him) yet Cromwell managed to turn it around and become extremely powerful at court. He really knew how to read the prevailing winds and behave in accordance. In that time period, if you came to public attention, you really had to know how to work the system and fool people if you wanted to keep your head or avoid being burned alive. Crazy times.
Sadly for Cromwell, he had his own major failure when he recommended that Henry marry Anne of Cleves. Anne was Protestant, and Cromwell wanted to try to sway England back in that direction (Henry always skewed Catholic in terms of ritual and matters of faith, but Cromwell was a Reformer) so he pushed for that marriage. Unfortunately for him, Henry hated Anne on sight, and so Cromwell lost his head over one of Henry's marriages, just as his master Wolsey had before him.
It has always astonished me that Cromwell showed great loyalty to Cardinal Wolsey, even after Wolsey failed to secure the divorce so Henry could marry Anne Boleyn and Henry (and Anne) began to hate him (eventually executing him) yet Cromwell managed to turn it around and become extremely powerful at court. He really knew how to read the prevailing winds and behave in accordance. In that time period, if you came to public attention, you really had to know how to work the system and fool people if you wanted to keep your head or avoid being burned alive. Crazy times.
Sadly for Cromwell, he had his own major failure when he recommended that Henry marry Anne of Cleves. Anne was Protestant, and Cromwell wanted to try to sway England back in that direction (Henry always skewed Catholic in terms of ritual and matters of faith, but Cromwell was a Reformer) so he pushed for that marriage. Unfortunately for him, Henry hated Anne on sight, and so Cromwell lost his head over one of Henry's marriages, just as his master Wolsey had before him.
Apr 6, 2015 at 10:59am Edited
deborahg said:
Yes, I noticed that last night before Wolf Hall. Great season for Anglophiles!
When it comes to PBS...when isn,t it a great seaon for anglophiles?
How many US made programs (series) are there on PBS?
Wolsey died of natural causes before Henry could send him to Tower Green (as he surely would have done).
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