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List Of Poldark Episodes
''Poldark'' is a British historical drama television series based on the novels of the same title by Winston Graham and starring Aidan Turner in the lead role. The series was written and adapted by Debbie Horsfield for the BBC, and directed by several directors throughout its run. Set between 1781 and 1801, the plot follows the titular character on his return to Cornwall after the American War of Independence in 1783. The series first aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 8 March 2015 in eight parts, and in seven parts on PBS in the United States, which supported the production, on 21 June 2015 as part of its '' Masterpiece'' anthology. The first series was based on the first two ''Poldark'' novels by Graham. It is the second screen adaptation of Graham's novels, following a television series A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poldark (2015 TV Series)
''Poldark'' is a British historical drama television series based on the novels of the same title by Winston Graham and starring Aidan Turner in the lead role. The book series is 12 novels long but the TV series only portrays the first seven. The series was written and adapted by Debbie Horsfield for the BBC, and directed by several directors throughout its run. Set between 1781 and 1801, the plot follows the title character on his return to Cornwall after the American War of Independence in 1783. The series first aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 8 March 2015 in eight episodes, and in seven episodes on PBS in the United States, which supported the production, on 21 June 2015 as part of its ''Masterpiece'' anthology. The first series was based on the first two ''Poldark'' novels by Graham. It is the second screen adaptation of Graham's novels, following a television series broadcast by BBC One between 1975 and 1977. On 8 April 2015, the BBC announced that a second ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McGregor (director)
William McGregor (born 26 September 1987) is a British screenwriter and director of BAFTA award winning film and television and Cannes Lion award winning commercials. Career McGregor studied at University for the Creative Arts in Farnham where he made his 2009 student film, ''Who's Afraid of the Water Sprite?'' and won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama; the Cambridge Student Film Festival was renamed " The Watersprite Film Festival" in honour of the film. McGregor was selected as a Screen International "Star of Tomorrow" in 2012 and a Berlinale Talent Campus participant in 2010. McGregor is represented for drama in the UK by Independent Talent and for commercials by The Mill. McGregor became the youngest-ever director of E4's BAFTA award-winning drama, ''Misfits'', in 2013, directing the first three episodes of series five. In 2014, he directed the finale of the BBC's ''Poldark''. The final episode was described as "''one of those rare occasions when a popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820. He was the longest-lived and longest-reigning king in British history. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover but, unlike his two predecessors, he was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language and never visited Hanover. George's life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Despard
Catherine Despard (died 1815), from Jamaica, publicised political detentions and prison conditions in London where her Irish husband, Colonel Edward Despard, was repeatedly incarcerated for their shared democratic convictions. Her extensive lobbying failed to save him from the gallows when, in 1803, he was tried and convicted for a plot to assassinate King George III. Jamaica Catherine Despard's origins in the Caribbean have been unclear. Some propose that she was an educated Spanish Creole, and that she met Eduard Despard when, from 1786, he was Superintendent of the British logwood concessions in the Bay of Honduras Evidence has emerged, however, that she was the daughter of Sarah Gordon, a free woman of colour in the parish of St. Andrew's in Kingston, Jamaica. In a will of May 1799 and probated in August, Gordon bequeathed four slaves (three adults and a child) to "my dear daughter Catherine Gordon Despard now in London". It is not known how Despard might have disposed of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel Despard
Edward Marcus Despard (175121 February 1803), an Kingdom of Ireland, Irish officer in the service of the The Crown, British Crown, gained notoriety as a colonial administrator for refusing to recognise racial distinctions in law and, following his recall to London, as a Republicanism in the United Kingdom, republican conspirator. Despard's associations with the London Corresponding Society, the Society of United Irishmen, United Irishmen and United Britons led to his trial and execution in 1803 as the alleged ringleader of a plot to assassinate the George III, King. Ireland, and military service in the Caribbean Edward Despard was born in 1751 in Coolrain, Camross, County Laois, Queen's County, in the Kingdom of Ireland, the youngest of eight surviving children (six sons, two daughters) of William Despard, a protestant landowner of Huguenot descent, and Jane Despard (née Walsh). With neighboring gentry, his father and grandfather enlarged their estate by enclosure, enclosing "was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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