Although writer Debbie Horsfield had stated that there would be no *agrarian* shirtless scenes from Ross in this second season, he appears with no shirt in the mine and in bed with Demelza in this first episode.
The second series of Poldark opened with an impressive 6,655,000 viewers tuning in, making it the third most watched programme on BBC1 for the period 29th August - 4th September 2016.