The Final Season of 'Poldark' Will Air on Masterpiece This Fall

It’s official: The final season of period drama Poldark has a U.S. premiere date!

Last week, both the BBC and PBS Masterpiece released our first look at Poldark’s swan song, dropping a teaser trailer and a first promo image, and now there’s even more news to be had.

Season 5 will premiere in the U.K. this July, but U.S fans won’t have to wait very long to see the conclusion of Ross’ Poldark’s story for themselves. Poldark will return to PBS’s Masterpiece beginning Sunday, September 29.

This is officially the final season of the popular period drama, though it sounds as if Debbie Horsfield and company are leaving the door open to continue the franchise at some point down the road, perhaps led by the next generation of Poldark kids rather than current stars Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson.

That would actually make a lot of sense, given that there’s a rather significant time jump that takes place in the Winston Graham series of novels on which the show is based. Season 4 of Poldark adapted through the events of the seventh book in the series, The Angry Tide. (This is also, incidentally, the place where the original 1970s period drama wrapped up.) But Season 5 will tackle the next novel, The Stranger From the Sea.

Well, sort of.