The Hobbit star Aidan Turner will attend a special preview of his new BBC drama series Poldark next month.

Turner will join co-star Eleanor Tomlinson at the screening at the BFI Southbank on February 23.

Tickets go on sale to the public at 11.30am on January 20.

The series is set in Britain in 1783 as Ross Poldark (Turner) returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin.