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MASTERPIECE | MASTERPIECE Studio: Poldark Finale

After five swashbuckling seasons, we've finally reached the end of Poldark. Series creator Debbie Horsfield bids Cornwall goodbye, one final time.

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Cutting It Fine: from Making Out to Poldark, and beyond – the Debbie Horsfield interview

Until she took on the most recent screen adaptation of classic Cornish historical literary saga Poldark, writer Debbie Horsfield was best known for a string of Manchester-based dramas. It’s now 30 …

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Yet another autograph to add to the list of powerful women who I aspire to be like... #DebbieHorsfield is so insightful and clever at what she does, that much is visible in @official_poldark more than anything else... Thank you for the advise about getting into screenwriting. Hopefully one day I'll be able to look back and thank you for the impact they, and more importantly your work on #Poldark, have had on me......... ❤️ #dreamcareer #js #screenwriting #bbc #me #instagram (at Royal Television Society)

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How good do they look?! #AidanTurner #DebbieHorsfield #RubyBentall - #Repost @heida.reed with @repostapp ・・・ En route #NTA's 👏🏼 #poldark

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Screen Testing Aidan Turner? Writer Discusses 'Poldark' in Regular Q&A

Terrific news! Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield is doing a monthly Question and Answer session for fans of the show with Winston Graham - Author of Poldark. This will give YOU the chance to ask her what's on your mind. In the first Q&A Debbie talks about when they'll know if they can dramatise more books, why the differing reports of six or eight episodes and, of course, Aidan Turner.

Here's what Debbie has to say when asked about screen-testing Aidan.

We didn't screen-test anyone else. I normally don't think about casting while I'm writing the scripts but it became clear to me during the middle of last year that we would need someone pretty spectacular to take on the role of Ross. Someone who could convey the complexity of the part, look the part, be young enough to play a man in his early twenties but who could, if all went well and we were fortunate enough to be able to do all 12 books, convincingly play the Ross of later years. Who had the ability, the charisma, the look (I was struck by Winston Graham's description of Ross's 'unusual face with its strongly set cheekbones, wide mouth and large strong white teeth'!) to take on such a formidable task? I had a short-list of one. Mammoth Managing Director Damien Timmer had had exactly the same thought. We didn't screen test Aidan. We knew his work. We knew he was perfect. We sent him the scripts. He loved them. There was never anyone else in the frame.

You can read the full interview here at Winston Graham Author

And do send in your questions ready for next time. Now, what shall I ask...?

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Writer of the New Series Talks Poldark

Debbie Horsfield via Manchester Evening News

Debbie Horsfield is the writer of the new series of Poldark. As a writer and producer her credits include Cutting It and All the Small Things.

In this interview with Radio Cornwall she talks about what a challenge and privilege it is to be asked to write the script, how the new series will follow the books closely and be a traditional interpretation rather than a Sherlock-like update and why Aidan Turner is the only man for the job.