The Most Watched Series on 2015
Poldark is a British drama television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 8 March 2015. The eight-part series (in the UK, seven parts in the USA), based on the first two Poldark novels by Winston Graham, was adapted by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Edward Bazalgette and Will McGregor. An earlier television series of the same name, based on Graham's first four Poldark novels, was broadcast by BBC One between 1975 and 1977. On 8 April 2015, the BBC announced that a second series had been commissioned.