Viewing Figures for 'Poldark' S4

The finale of Poldark series four was certainly a dramatic one and one that kept us glued to our TVs! 4.4 million watched it on the night (it won the 9pm slot), with a further million of us catching up during the week, according to Barb's seven day consolidated figures which do not include BBC iplayer. At 5.4 million it was BBC One's third most popular programme for the week 23-29 July, after Eastenders (5.8m) and Antiques Roadshow (5.7m).

Barb's seven day consolidated figures show the premiere of Poldark series four garnered an audience of six million and was BBC One's top show that week. Episode two was the most popular episode of the series (6.1m) and episode four the least watched (4.9m). On average, 5.6m people watched each episode, compared to 6.1m for series three and 7.6m for series one.  BBC iplayer figures will probably be available in the Autumn.

To give some context to the months of June and July in the UK,  the football World Cup took place during the weeks Poldark episodes two to six aired (though games were generally not being played when the show was on TV). The UK also experienced a heatwave during this period.

Poldark in Australia
Poldark series four aired in Australia just six days after the UK on ABC. Previous series had been shown on a Sunday evening but, for series four, the show was moved to Saturdays at 8.15 pm. Episode 8 proved the most popular with 409K watching it that day in the five city metro area and episode 7 the least with 332K, it's smallest audience ever.
Many thanks to  @veras67 on Twitter for her regular help with information from Australia.

Related links:
'Poldark' Tops the Tables
Poldark's Weekly Viewing Figures

'Poldark' Series 4 Coming to Australia Soon!

UPDATED 4 June 2018:
There's now confirmation on the ABC schedule that Poldark is back on 16 June at 8.18 pm. Many thanks to Roz Bevis on facebook for this news and the screencap.

Poldark series four may be out in Australia less than a week after it airs in the UK!

TV Tonight are reporting Poldark will return to ABC on Saturday 16 June at 8.15 pm, although it is yet to appear in the ABC schedule. This is a change of day for the show as, in the past, Poldark has aired on Sundays.

Poldark series four is expected to air in the UK on BBC One at 9 pm on Sunday 10 June, although this is still to be confirmed by the BBC.  PBS Masterpiece are yet to announce a date for Poldark's return in the US.

Many thanks to @veras67 on Twitter and Roz Bevis on Facebook for the news from Australia.

Australians! Win a Signed 'Poldark' S3 DVD

Here's a great chance for Australian residents to win a copy of the Poldark S3 DVD signed by Aidan Turner!

Simply order a copy of Poldark S3 or the complete series 1-3 box set from Sanity, fill out the competition form and say why you love Aidan as Ross in 25 words or fewer. The competition closes on 22 August, 2017.

You can order Poldark series 3 DVD here  price $29.99

You can enter the competition here

Poldark S3 is due for release in Australia on 30 August 2017.

Good luck!

'Poldark' S3 DVD Available for Pre-order in Australia

Updated 23 June: ABC Shop have the release date as 23 August

The dvd of Poldark S3 is now available for pre-order in Australia!

As yet there is no cover picture and few details, but Sanity are advertising the dvd at $39.99 with a release date of  2 August, 2017.

Meanwhile we can enjoy the trailer from ABC TV.

Many thanks to  Margaret James on Facebook for this news.

Poldark S3 airs in UK Sunday 11 June, in Australia Sunday 18 June and in US 1 October.

Related Links:
Poldark Series 3 Coming to Australia Soon!
Poldark Returns 11 June
Poldark S3 Trailer is Here!
Ross and Demelza: A Happier Time
Dramatic Start to Poldark S3

'Poldark' Series 3 Coming to Australia Soon!

Trailer with spoilers - be warned!!!

Poldark series three will be out in Australia just a week after it airs in the UK!

Thanks to @veras67 on Twitter and Roz Bevis on Facebook, we've learnt that ABC TV has been showing a trailer for Poldark with the news that it will be back on Sunday 18 June at 8.30 pm, although it is yet to appear in the ABC schedule.

Poldark series three will air in the UK on BBC One at 9 pm on Sunday 11 June, in Australia on ABC at 8.30 pm on 18 June and in the US on PBS Masterpiece on 1 October, 2017.

We can't wait!

Updated 5 June 2017:

Thanks again to Roz Bevis for this ABC schedule confirming the date and time

Related Links:
Dramatic Start to Poldark S3
Ross and Demelza: A Happier Time

Poldark S2 Finale in Australia

One has to feel sorry for any drama that has its final episode pushed back by a week so some other event can be shown on TV and that's just what happened to Poldark Series 2 in Australia one Sunday where viewers, tuning in to ABC to learn of Ross and Demelza's fate, were faced with a Crowded House concert and one more week of waiting.

Rather splendidly, when the finale was eventually shown last Sunday, Australian's tuned in in their thousands and episode 10 returned the strongest audience numbers of the season: a cracking 536,000 in the five city metropolitan area according to TVTonight. This is not enough to match the figures for the first series which ranged between 649k (the premiere) and 567k but is a good improvement on the second season's opening of 479k and, interestingly, reflects the finale's performance in the UK too.

Well done Poldark!

Thanks to @vera67 for her help with this post.

Related links
Poldarked: 'Poldark' Series Finale Viewing Figures

Viewing Figures for 'Poldark' S2 Episodes 8 and 9

Episode 9 gave Poldark it's best overnight viewing figure this season, reaching for the first time the sort of levels seen for series one. OvernightsTV reported an audience of 5.4 million (24.3%. share), taking the show over the 2014 pre-Poldark average of 5m for this Sunday night slot.

The seven day consolidated figure for episode 8 held up well too and at 6.4m, was the third largest for this series. Poldark was BBC One's second best performing drama of the week after The Missing with 7.1m viewers.  Other shows with larger audiences include The Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice, Countryfile and Eastenders. (Barb figures exclude iplayer)

Viewing figures continued their upward trend in Australia reaching 532k for episode 6 in the five city metro area: a series best, according to TVTonight.

Related links:
Poldarked: Viewing Figures for 'Poldark' S2 Episodes 7 and 8
Poldarked: Audience Numbers for 'Poldark'
Poldarked: Viewing Figures for Poldark S2
Poldarked: Watching 'Poldark'
Poldarked: Viewing Figures for 'Poldark' S2

Viewing Figures for 'Poldark' S2 Episodes 7 and 8

The second series of Poldark gained its highest share of the television audience this season with its controversial episode on Sunday. Episode eight won a 23.8% share of viewers according to OvernightsTV. The audience numbers continued their steady week by week climb from a low of 4.7 million for episode five to 5m this Sunday, making it the third most popular episode this series.

Barb's seven day consolidated viewing figures for episode seven, which do not include BBC iplayer, were down slightly on the previous week's from 6.2m to 6.14m. Poldark was eleventh in the ranking of  BBC One's shows for the week, with the drama The Missing coming fourth. Other shows in the top ten were The Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice, Eastenders and Countryfile.

Catching up with the ratings in Australia for the five city metro area, episode 4 of Poldark was watched by 468k on 16 October rising to 482k for episode 5 last Sunday, its second best showing of the season after episode 3 (502k) according to TVTonight.

'Poldark' S2 UK and US Air Dates Confirmed

This week we've had official confirmation of what we've all sort of known for some time.
Poldark will be back on our screens in the UK and US in September!

Official Poldark made the announcement for the UK tweeting:

#Poldark Series 2. @BBCOne. 4th Sept 2016. The countdown begins... pic.twitter.com/nM0Nt6MAhL

— Official Poldark (@PoldarkTV) 15 July 2016

And earlier in the week Masterpiece PBS tweeted:

Get ready to celebrate, #PoldarkPBS fans - S2 begins 9/25 with a 2hr premiere at 8/7c on MASTERPIECE on @PBS! pic.twitter.com/GIcN9M1kez

— Masterpiece PBS (@masterpiecepbs) 13 July 2016

Poldark S2 is also slated to air in Australia in 2016 according to TV Tonight.

This was our first glimpse of Poldark S2 in the BBC One  One to Watch trailer back in January. What a long time ago that seems. Now, for the UK, there's just seven weeks to go.  Hurrah!

Poldark Finale is BBC1's Top Show of the Week

The UK season finale of Poldark was the most watched programme on BBC 1 in the week ending 26 April, 2015.  Poldark drew an audience of 5.9 million on the night but the consolidated viewing figures for the week, according to Barb, take it to almost 7.4 m . These figures exclude iplayer, as only the iplayer requests for March are currently publicly available.

In Australia, episode 4 of Poldark on ABC drew an audience of 585,000 on the night in the five city metro area, up from last week's figure of 567,000 and making it No. 10 in the daily top 20 TV programmes says TVTonight.

Poldark premiered on Prime TV in New Zealand on 22 April, 2015 to an audience of  40,170, which made it No. 4 in the daily top 20 according to Throng. The Big Bang Theory was No.1 with 54,040 viewers.

Viewing Figures for 'Poldark'

Photo: Mike Alsford

The final episode of Poldark was the most watched programme at 9 pm  last night with an audience of 5.9 million (25.4% of  all viewers) according to OvernightsTV.  This was an increase of some half a million viewers on the previous week.

The consolidated viewing figure for episode 7  (19 April, 2015)  was 6.8 million which was down from 7.2 m for episode 6.  These figures exclude BBC iplayer. Episode 7 of Poldark was the fourth most popular programme on BBC1 that week after three episodes of East Enders reports Barb.

Episode 3 of Poldark aired on ABC in Australia yesterday to an audience of 567,000 in the five city metro area. This was down from 595,000 for episode 2 but it was still in the daily top 10 programmes at number 9, reports TVTonight

Figures for Poldark on iplayer for the month of March can be found here.

Watching 'Poldark'

via NZHerald

Poldark was top of the audience leader board for the 9pm Sunday night slot yet again!  This week Episode 7  drew 5.4 million viewers which is a 24.3% share of viewers according to OvernightsTV and very much in line with last week's figure of 5.5 million  (23%).

The consolidated viewing figure for Poldark Episode 6 (12 April, 2015) was 7.19 million, up from the Easter Sunday (Episode 5) figure of 6.95m but still down on the previous week's figure (Episode 4) of 7.76m.  Poldark  Episode 6 was the second most popular programme on BBC1 that week, after East Enders.  All figures via Barb

Episode 2 of Poldark air in Australia yesterday on ABC1.  It captured an audience of 595,000
in the five city metro area, down from 649,000 last week, putting it in 11th place in the daily top 20 reports TVTonight.

'Poldark' Viewing Figures for UK and Australia

Poldark held it's place at the top of the table for the 9 pm slot in the UK last night (12 April, 2015) with a 23% share of viewers which translates into 5.53 million people. This is 300,000 more viewers than last week's Easter Sunday offering  (episode 5), though the share is very much the same (22.9% last week) (DigitalSpy)

The consolidated viewing figures for episode 5 is 6.95 million, down from 7.76m for the previous week's episode (BARB).

Poldark premiered in Australia on 12 April  to an audience of 649,000 which, according to The Australian is 'well above the season average for Broadchurch and Sherlock in the same timeslot earlier this year'.  This put it in ninth place among the top 10 programmes for Sunday 12 April, 2015.

Here's the Australian trailer for Poldark

"Wasn't he reported dead?" "Better if he had been." Who is the mysterious Ross Poldark?? Find out tomorrow, 8.40pm
Posted by ABC TV on Saturday, 11 April 2015

Strong International Sales for 'Poldark'

Hoorah!

Poldark is selling well at MipTV global distribution market which is good news for international fans.

Televisual report that not only has it been sold in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, which we have reported on in the past, but in Canada too with sales to Sweden close to being finalised. The commissioning of a second season of the show and the consolidated viewing figures of 8.1 million have supported the sales.

Poldark is produced for the BBC by Mammoth Screen but ITVStudios Global Entertainment are responsible for international sales.

Australian Trailer for 'Poldark'

Here's the Australian trailer for Poldark The first episode aired on ABC1 on 12 April, 2015

"Wasn't he reported dead?" "Better if he had been." Who is the mysterious Ross Poldark?? Find out tomorrow, 8.40pm

Posted by ABC TV on Saturday, 11 April 2015

'Poldark' in Audio Description Trial

Poldark  is one of the shows selected by Australian television to be part of a trial to bring TV programmes to people who are blind and vision impaired reports audiodescription.

Audio description is used around the world to give the vision impaired access to television. It was previously trialled in Australia in 2012.  The new trial begins on ABC1 on April 14, just in time for Poldark.  It will be available initially on iphones and ipads via an iview app.

Joining Poldark in the trial are New Tricks, Grantchester, Fortitude, Redfern Now and the children’s programs Bubble Bath Bay, Deadly 60 and The Worst Year of My Life.

Poldark premieres in Australia on ABC1 on 12 April, 2015 at 8.40 pm.

Poldark to Air in Australia in April

Photo: BBC

Our friends in Australia will not have long to wait until they can share the joy that is Poldark.

The first episode of the  new  BBC adaptation of the Winston Graham novels, starring Aidan Turner (Ross Poldark) and Eleanor Tomlinson (Demelza), will air on Sunday 12 April at 8.40 pm on ABC


Here is the trailer for those in Australia

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/poldark/MP1514H116C00DT1?