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Demelza is cast?

It seems as if we may have news on the casting of Demelza, if a recent tweet via @screenterrier ( who divulge this kind of info ) is to be believed. The role of the young Cornish ragamuffin has been given to the actress Eleanor Tomlinson, who’s past credits include the film Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging and more recently a role in the BBC drama The White Queen, in which she played Lady Isabel Neville. [ She acted her socks off in that birth scene, so to speak! ]

Eleanor is 22 and has been acting since she was a teenager.

If reports are confirmed, we believe we will approve very much of this news!

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A passion for Poldark

Here at thepoldarkrooms we have a passion for all things relating to Poldark.  We don’t mind admitting that this interest was sparked at an early age and we can still cast our minds back ( and there will be many amongst you who will join us, we suspect ), to the decade that brought us for the very first time  cultural highlights such as Star Wars, Jaws and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

In the UK, colour television was becoming more widely available although many viewers continued to watch black-and-white sets for most of the decade.  Notable dramas included The Sweeney and All Creatures Great and Small.  Doctor Who was firmly establishing himself in the nation’s psyche  and sitcoms such as Fawlty Towers, Rising Damp and The Good Life set down their roots as Great British Classics.

In to that golden arena in 1975, came an adaptation by the BBC of the highly regarded  Poldark novels by author Winston Graham.  Graham had actually begun writing the saga in the 1940s (  the first novel ‘ Ross Poldark ‘ was in fact published in 1945 with the fourth, entitled ‘ Warleggan ‘ being published in 1953 ). After a long hiatus he resumed writing the series and The Black Moon was on the shelves in 1972.  The BBC adapted the first four books between 1975 and 1976 and three more books in 1977. In total, the episodes ran to 29 in number, over two seasons.

Poldark the tv series is remembered as one of the most successful British television adaptations of all time.  The BBC sold the programme to over forty countries.  On video it outsold every costume drama except for the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice .  In 2007, PBS in America aired a programme entitled ‘ The Best of Masterpiece Theatre ‘ and following it’s transmission a nationwide survey found viewers voted Poldark one of the top ten best-loved series over 35 series. ( It came in at number seven in fact ).

Some of you may recall the HTV adaptation for ITV, made in 1996.  That version brought to TV the eighth novel, ‘ The Stranger from the Sea’ .  It was not highly regarded and failed to be commissioned for further runs.  We don’t actually know anyone personally who saw it , ( or at least admits to seeing it ) so we won’t make any comments about it in future posts, but we’d be most interested to hear anyone else’s recollections of it, should they be willing to share…

Over the coming days, weeks and months ( we daren’t say ‘ year ‘ as it reminds us just how long the wait truly is! ), we’ll be sharing our passion for all things Poldark on this blog, together with any Poldark trivia we discover.  Whilst we all eagerly await the new BBC version of Poldark ( to be screened in 2015 ), we’ll keep you updated here and over on our twitter and facebook pages.  Many of you will already know that Aidan Turner ( Being Human, Desperate Romantics and most recently Kili in the Peter Jackson The Hobbit trilogy ), has been cast as the eponymous hero Ross and we couldn’t be more delighted that this latest reincarnation of our most loved of heroes is in his capable ( and rather beautiful ) Irish hands.

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