My guess is that the winner will be Poldark, which starts its second season on BBC One tonight (Sunday, Sep. 4, 2016), for three reasons. First, the first season of Poldark simply scored stronger ratings than Victoria has done so far. These were the overnight ratings (not the consolidated ratings after a week of catch-up viewing, which notched a couple of million viewers or so higher for each episode): Episode 1 (Mar. 8, 2015) – 6.95 million viewers.