Poldark to End with Season Five

Filming starts this week on the fifth season of Poldark, which will be the show’s last.

The Poldark saga was created over 12 novels by Winston Graham. After the seventh novel, The Angry Tide, on which season four was based, Graham left a gap of 10 years before the eighth novel, The Stranger from the Sea, begins. Debbie Horsfield, who has written every episode of the four seasons, revealed: “In The Stranger from the Sea, Winston Graham made many references to developments that happened in the ‘gap’ years. Much can also be inferred. There are, of course, also historical events and people of the time, both in Cornwall and in London. Series five will draw on all of these to follow the lives of the Poldarks, George Warleggan, the Enyses, and the Carnes in this intervening period.”

Karen Thrussell, executive producer for Mammoth, said: “At Mammoth we’re all fans of the Poldark books and we hope our audience will continue with us on the next stage of the journey. We are confident that fans of the novels will appreciate the care with which Debbie Horsfield is continuing to adapt Winston Graham’s saga. This will be the last series in the Poldark chronicle… for now. Who knows what the future may bring.”

Andrew Graham, son of Poldark author Winston Graham and series consultant on behalf of the Winston Graham Estate, added: “No one can know what my father would have felt about the forthcoming series, let alone what he might have written. However, Debbie Horsfield has demonstrated such an extraordinary affinity with his work and shown such remarkable skill in bringing his Poldark characters to the screen that we know we are in safe hands. Indeed, without her, the Estate would not have agreed to series five in this form.”

Charlotte Moore, director of BBC Content, commented: “BBC One viewers are set for an unmissable final series from Debbie Horsfield when Poldark returns next year.”