There’s plots going on in new series of Poldark

.. but star Aidan hints at end of drama

Poldark’s Aidan Turner expects the BBC1 drama to end after next year’s fifth series, and says he has no plans “age up” to play Cornish hero Ross in his later years.

It will disappoint the show’s seven million fans plus writer Debbie Horsfield, who had hoped to adapt Winston Graham’s final books.

Aidan, 34, on a fiveseries deal with the rest of the cast, said: “It’s been big for us all but things naturally do come to an end.

“I think next year might be the last one, certainly for a while. There’s a huge gap in the books, about 15 years. I wouldn’t age up, I’d come back in 10 years. I’d revisit it the right way.”

Asked last month whether series five would be the last time we see Ross and Demelza, played by Eleanor Tomlinson, 26, Debbie said: “At the moment it’ll be the last time we see anyone. That said, we’d love to do more.”

Meanwhile series four, starting next month, is tipped to be the most dramatic yet. It draws on the end of books six and seven in the series of 12. It is 1796 and Ross feels he has no choice but to leave Cornwall for Westminster.

Where does that leave him and Demelza, after she succumbed to Hugh Armitage?

Show boss Karen Thrussell said: “Ross strives to become a better man, but his dark and reckless streak is never far from the surface.” Here is what is in store for the main cast.

I’d come back in 10 years and revisit the right way

AIDAN TURNER ON NOT ‘AGEING UP’ FOR HIS ROLE