Poldark

When one attractive and elusive "rogue" meets a fiesty, red headed girl from the wrong side of town, there is bound to be romance. BBC's Poldark reboot features new romance and it is heady. Probably not the best show on television, but it moves at a cracking pace - straight into bed so to speak. Much of the show doesn't work and shouldn't work, a ungainly combination of Mining drama (which is basically what kept Jocks "Paydirt" Phillips interested) and straight costume drama, it is sexy fun for the whole family, or at least for one key member of the family. Some commentators have said that the episodes move too fast without revealing enough to its audience, but not for this keen-eyed reviewer. How could you miss a thing? Against the torpidity of previous costume dramas; exemplified by the stilted dialogue of Wives and Daughters- who could defend that disappointing match between the two suitors; or even, weighing heavily over the whole business, the protracted bachelorhood of D'Arcy; Poldark instead moves at a terribly modern pace. But what is wrong with that, hopefully he brings his girlfriend round to the parents or phones his brother before leaving for Bulgaria.