The team behind Poldark – producer Mammoth Screen and writer Debbie Horsfield – are set to adapt the literary classic The Count of Monte Cristo.
Season 4 of Poldark has now concluded, with distraught fans left to wait until next year for a new batch of episodes.
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Deadline reports that a new take on the Alexandre Dumas-penned novel, set between 1815 and 1839 in France and Italy, is currently being planned – in hopes it will attract a similar audience to the popular Aidan Turner-starring BBC drama.