Martin Clunes interview

It's taken a while, but loyal fans finally get the happy ending they've longed for as Portwenn's grumpy medic makes an honest woman of fiancée Louisa in the new series of Doc Martin. But don't expect the day to go smoothly... TV Choice caught up with screen groom, Martin Clunes...

Martin Clunes interview

Martin Clunes talks about his surprise at Doc Martin's success.

Clunes used knowledge to stop 'nonsensical' operation

Martin Clunes used Doc Martin knowledge to stop a 'nonsensical' operation being performed on his wife.

A trip to Portwenn and the making of Doc Martin 6...

As Planet Earth patiently (ha!) awaits the precise moment that surgery is once again open in Portwenn for the return of Doc Martin, David Rubinsohn and Eric Luskin, colleagues over at American Public Television, the U.S. distributor of the series to public television stations, made the trek to Port Isaac to both interview cast and shoot material for an upcoming behind-the-scenes special on public television. Doc Martin Revealed will air in late November, early December on a number of public television stations across the U.S.

Clunes: Lousia & Doc finally going to marry, I think...

The star of the Cornish medical drama gives us a hint of what to expect from the next series, and reveals a soft spot for lemurs.

High on a cocktail of prescription drugs and faced with the unwelcome prospect of quiet retirement with her dull husband, Mrs Tishell (Selina Cadell) decides it is now or never to discover whether her infatuation with the Doc (Martin Clunes) might be reciprocated. Her idea of seduction - which involves using baby James Henry as bait - proves not only desperate but dangerous, providing a real, er, cliffhanger for the final moments of the series.

Some things never change for Doc Martin. The sun always shines. The people of Portwenn always bring him a supply of interesting maladies. And in the series finale he's always seen speeding past tractors in his fancy silver saloon car, averting
a crisis that's inconveniently happening out of town.

So it is tonight, as a long-term supporting character suddenly gets their moment in the spotlight via a slightly creaky personality change. At the end of a faintly disturbing but cosily predictable caper, there's a clever and rather lovely tidying up of frayed ends. You know where we're going, but it's how they get us there.

More importantly, achingly stupid PC Joe Penhale (John Marquez) who's already one of the funniest characters on telly, really ups his game when there's genuine peril about.

Doc Martin stars: 'We're like a big family now'

Ahead of the heart-stopping climax of Doc Martin, Martin Clunes and Caroline Catz tell TV Times magazine about loyal fans and their dream job...

What is it about Portwenn that attracts so many batty people? Nearly everyone in the place lives on the fringes of eccentricity. And that's not another picturesque Cornish village. Tonight we meet Mrs Florence Dingly (played charmingly and lovingly by Anne Reid), who runs the local cat shelter and obviously takes more care of her moggies than she does of herself. Her run-ins with Doc Martin are a comic delight.

Meanwhile, Bert gets into trouble over an outstanding loan, Eleanor shirks her baby-minding duties - off-loading little James onto a local teenager in order to help Bert organise a sangria-laden Andalusian evening - and Martin, facing an emergency, has to perform an operation in his surgery.

Few events are considered too unlikely to make it into the storyline of Doc Martin. Thus this penultimate episode sees the kind folk of idyllic Port Wenn harassed by a pair of violent loan sharks who, not content with terrorising Bert Large (Ian McNeice) over an outstanding debt, also try to shake down poor old cat-sanctuary owner Florence Dingle (Anne Reid). Mind you, even that doesn't sound so far-fetched compared with tonight's claim by Louisa's mother Eleanor (Louise Jameson) that she once ran a successful restaurant out in Andalusia. Now that's truly absurd.