"Poldark," the hero on PBS' "Masterpiece," is a brooder and a man of few words. He went to America to fight and acquire his scar in the losing war to quash the American revolution -- and returned in 1783 to his native Cornwall, England, where he learned his father was dead, his familial property was in ruins, his estate heavily in debt, and the woman to whom he was once betrothed had married his cousin. In a nutshell, this is the set-up for this seven-episode series -- a remake of a first version produced in the mid-1970s.

Buried in some of the coverage of Donald Trump over the last few days was a sanction he imposed on employees of Univision: They are now banned from a golf course he owns in Miami. This country club banishment came on the heels of Univision's decision to withdraw from an agreement to air Trump's "Miss USA Pageant" later this month following his now-infamous remarks about Mexican immigrants.