Filming starts on Doc Martin Series 8

Martin Clunes is back in Cornwall as filming starts on Series 8 of ITV's hit comedy drama Doc Martin.

British Comedy Guide, 21st March 2017

Doc Martin to end in 2018

Martin Clunes says that hit comedy drama Doc Martin will come to a finish in 2018. Series 9 will be the last series.

British Comedy Guide, 17th January 2017

Doc Martin: Martin Clunes's guide to Port Isaac

As the much-loved Cornish drama is repeated on Friday nights, explore the real Portwenn...

Jade Bremner, Radio Times, 8th July 2016

Doc Martin - five reasons to love it

I heartily recommend that you also watch this show.

TV Equals, 2nd May 2016

ITV orders Doc Martin Series 8

ITV has ordered an eighth series of Doc Martin, its hit comedy drama starring Martin Clunes.

British Comedy Guide, 13th January 2016

TV review: Doc Martin

There's something slightly less restful than usual about that woolly-pully of a show, Doc Martin (Saturday, 8.10pm, TV One) - the knowledge that this is the final series and the wretched man has limited time to sort himself out.

Jane Clifton, Stuff.co.nz, 1st December 2015

Doc Martin represents one of my guiltier pleasures, in that I watch it in what I think of as my time "off", freed from doing the serious important note-taking shtick or being asked to struggle professionally to fathom the enduring appeal of Downton. The Big Bang Theory, The Wright Stuff, reruns of Jonathan Creek or Endeavour - all are just-for-me equivalents of warm mismatched socks, a hot-water bottle and burnt bubbling cheap cheese on toast. Bliss.

So I dread the day Martin Ellingham - his surname an anagram of showrunner Dominic Minghella, is this interesting? (No, Ed.) - gets all worthy or political or even relevant, and I have to review it seriously. And, the saints be blessed, that still looks roundly unlikely from this sofa. We're still freely invited, 11 years on and at the close of the latest series, to giggle smugly at Cornwall, and what immense fun that is. Those who have been there know that the inhabitants live in perhaps the most glorious corner of God's green earth, and there should be payback, so we're probably entitled to regard the Cornubian batholith as the Land That Education Forgot. Almost everyone be a moron.

Bert Large is a cunning 20-chinned moron. Son Al is a misunderstood moron. Mrs Tishell is a comedy escapee from The Archers, and a moron in italics. Sexy Morwenna is a trainee moron (yet there's hope, and, left to her own devices, she correctly divines that 100% of those waiting for the absent doctor's curt ministrations are slouchy malingerers or alcoholics). King Captain Moron is, of course, PC Joe, who in this final series episode managed to louse up in every way imaginable short of snagging his own pancreas in a bear-trap. Actor John Marquez deserves great credit: not since Father Dougal has there been on our screens a more credible, human, moron.

In the end, after some relatively serious business involving the Doc's kidnapping, serious mainly because one doesn't ever dick about with Gemma Jones possessed of the "nice" end of a shotgun and a righteous wrath, Louisa and Martin were gently reunited. "I think I've been a little bit obsessed with people having to be normal. But they're not, are they?" You said it, girl from Cornwall. Sweeter, more seriously, "I know you weren't going to let me down," which is very much all a girl wants. But... only sometimes. Hence the clever personal tension underwriting the relationship at the heart of this series, and which, apart from the sweet morons and Martin Clunes's deadpan perfections, lends it its entirely fathomable appeal. More, more.

Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 8th November 2015

Radio Times review

Doc Martin wakes up gagged and handcuffed to a bed. Now clearly being held hostage is not a normal situation, even for a bad-tempered and aggravating man like him, but how he gets there is not really the point. Suffice to say it's related to a patient from last week.

However, his incarceration in a remote farmhouse does give him reason (and time) to think about his personal life before someone finally comes to his aid. Unfortunately the hapless PC Penhale is heading up the rescue team, but it's not long before half the village, including Louisa, arrives.

Martin-ettes will be holding their breath in anticipation of a happy ending.

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 27th October 2015

Sigourney Weaver on Doc Martin, ITV, review: 'bizarre'

Sigourney Weaver's cameo on cosy ITV drama Doc Martin was all too brief, says Gerard O'Donovan.

Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 26th October 2015

Radio Times review

Sigourney Weaver makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo when she strides into Portwenn's chemist. An American tourist with ancestral connections to Cornwall, she wants to buy eye-drops to treat her glaucoma, so inevitably she meets Dr Ellingham. "Your accent is very thick. I can't understand what you're saying," he snaps when she suggests a smile would help. Maybe his curmudgeonly manner is the reason for the brevity of her visit.

Another new arrival is young teacher Erica (Kelly Adams), who upsets the children with her unorthodox approach to art. When she's not fainting, that is. Meanwhile, Martin and Louise are still having marriage counselling with Dr Timoney (who's behaving rather strangely herself) and there's a real "ahhhh" moment when Joe is offered a transfer to the big city. Well, to Exeter. Will anyone care if he goes or if he stays?

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 26th October 2015