Yahoo News Poldark could "come back in 10 years" after series 5
Here's the good news: Poldark will be back very soon for a fourth series. Here's the even better news: a fifth series has already been confirmed!
But after that? Series lead Aidan Turner has previously referred to the popular BBC One drama as a "five-year gig" – so is Ross approaching the end of his story?
"I have some mixed feelings, I suppose," Turner said when asked by Digital Spy about potentially bringing Poldark to a close. "It's been big for us all, and it'll always be a very special thing. But things naturally come to an end, I suppose.
"I think we've done really well with Winston [Graham]'s books, [on which the series is based]. I hope he'd be proud. Certainly, Andrew – his son – is, and the estate, so I think we've done pretty well with it."
Turner added that it might be right to end the Cornish epic sooner rather than later, allowing it to "naturally come to an end."
"You don't want things to go on too long and just limp out the backdoor," he said. "So I think next year [the fifth series] might be the last one – certainly for a while. We may come back. Who knows?"
So we might see a Poldark revival some years down the line? Turner thinks so, hinting that this might be how the show tackles the huge time jump from Graham's novels. (11 years pass between two of the books, the author picking up with a much older Ross.)
"The jump is huge," Turner acknowledged. "But I'm not putting grey in my hair [for the next series] or anything like that. I'll come back in 10 years and revisit it the right way."
Intriguing!
Poldark will return to BBC One for a new series in June.
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