Cornwall calling for Martin Clunes as Doc Martin return

Martin Clunes is back as the grumpy GP in Doc Martin. Susan Griffin sniffs at the sea air in Port Isaac as she discovers the actor's happy shock at how life's panned out.

Making a Portwenn 'house call' to the set of Doc Martin

Patients of Dr. Martin Ellingham finally received word this week that the new season of Doc Martin will begin on Monday, 12 September, in the UK (ITV).

Martin Clunes interview

Martin Clunes tells TV Choice about making the show with his wife, and how she stops him from arguing with the programme's writers.

Martin Clunes: from man behaving badly to devoted dad

Once the epitome of laddishness, the TV actor Martin Clunes has undergone a remarkable transformation.

Doc Martin back after two years

Martin Clunes is back in Cornwall this week filming a new fifth series of Doc Martin - the first since the hit drama's last appearance in 2009.

Doc Martin returns to ITV

ITV has commissioned a fifth series of Martin Clunes drama Doc Martin.

Clunes confirms fifth 'Doc Martin' series

Martin Clunes has confirmed that Doc Martin will return for a fifth series.

Interview: Doc Martin star Katherine Parkinson

Katherine Parkinson talks about Doc Martin, The IT Crowd and more.

French towns fight for right to their own Doc Martin

Idyllic coastal villages in running to be location for French TV version of hit UK series about doctor with blood phobia.

If I had to name a TV guilty pleasure, then Doc Martin would be near the top of the list, if guilt is the right way to describe being swaddled in an eiderdown of cosy eccentricity. Either way, it's been the perfect X Factor comedown, so the Doc's departure last night will leave a grumpy hole in my heart. Except, of course, he'll be back. We'd been led to believe Martin Clunes was packing up his stethoscope and departing Cornwall, lured back to London by daft thoughts of a brilliant career. The subtext being Clunes was yearning to do more documentaries on dogs, or the Orkneys, or whatever. But all it took was a popped sprog and a baleful look from Louisa and his irascible armour, nurtured over four series, collapsed in a mist of paternal pride. Well, for 30 seconds at least.

So we haven't seen the last of Clunes and his coterie of clotted admirers. The love that burns bright in the breasts of Mrs Tishell and PC Penhale - there really is something about a man with a stethoscope - may yet speak its name.