Below is the DVD cover art for Series 5, as featured on Amazon UK.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Halloween...
For a Doc Martin Halloween Mashup, courtesy of Mona (aka mmDerdekea), click on this link to JibJab. Cool!
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Hot of the Presses (SPOILERS)...
Here's a whole swag of articles from the TV rags about Episode Eight! A very big thank you to GriffinStar for the scans!
Doc Martin Stars: "We're like a big family now"...
An article from What's on TV, featuring...believe it if you will...a smile!
Ahead of the heart-stopping climax of Doc Martin (ITV1, Monday, Oct 31), Martin Clunes and Caroline Catz tell TV Times magazine about loyal fans and their dream job...
Have you enjoyed filming the ending to this series?
Martin: “I have loved it. There’s a real cliff-hanger at the end of the series, and it feels like a really strong ending.”
Caroline: “We were filming right by the sea, and we had three days in just the most exquisite spot in Cornwall. It was a lot of fun. We had no phone signal so nobody could get hold of us, and there weren’t too many passers-by. When you’re really cut off like that and you’re filming, you can really get on with it.”
Keep reading HERE.
Ahead of the heart-stopping climax of Doc Martin (ITV1, Monday, Oct 31), Martin Clunes and Caroline Catz tell TV Times magazine about loyal fans and their dream job...
Have you enjoyed filming the ending to this series?
Martin: “I have loved it. There’s a real cliff-hanger at the end of the series, and it feels like a really strong ending.”
Caroline: “We were filming right by the sea, and we had three days in just the most exquisite spot in Cornwall. It was a lot of fun. We had no phone signal so nobody could get hold of us, and there weren’t too many passers-by. When you’re really cut off like that and you’re filming, you can really get on with it.”
Keep reading HERE.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Episode Seven on YouTube...
Episode Seven - Cats and Sharks.
Be sure to check out all the other Doc Martin videos on MClunesfan123's YouTube Channel.
Be sure to check out all the other Doc Martin videos on MClunesfan123's YouTube Channel.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Series Five, Episode Seven - Cats and Sharks...
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.
About this programme
7/8. Bert struggles to come up with the money to repay loan sharks Alastair and Norman Tonken, who gave him £1,000 to clear his debts. Eleanor falls ill and Martin diagnoses a strangulated hernia, but when the ambulance goes to the wrong village, he has no alternative but to perform the emergency operation himself in his surgery. With Martin Clunes, Ian McNeice and Louise Jameson.
Doc Martin Five Gives ITV Ratings a Shot in the Arse...
Cornish medical drama Doc Martin delivered the goods for ITV1 last night as the first episode of series five attracted a very healthy average audience of 8.4 million to the channel between 9pm and 10pm, a 32.4 per cent share of all viewers watching TV at the time.
A further 300,000 viewers chose to enjoy the beautifully shot Martin Clunes vehicle on ITV1 HD.
In the same slot last week, Coronation Street could only manage 7.8 million (a 30 per cent share) from 9pm to 9:30pm, and the Red or Black? results show delivered 5.1 million (a 20.2 per cent share) between 9:30pm and 10pm on ITV1.
Keep reading at RADIO TIMES.
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Doc Martin, Comedy Superhero...
Doc Martin looks at first glance like dull, patronising pap. It’s got simple plots and an absurdly beautiful rural setting: Port Isaac in north Cornwall, renamed Portwenn for the show. The supporting cast talk in Somerset accents, like all TV actors asked to play people from Cornwall, or Norfolk for that matter. Everything always turns out more or less all right.
But despite its cosy medical-drama trappings, it’s too edgy and, frankly, too good to be left to the Heartbeat/Midsomer cocoa-and-moccasins crowd. Doc Martin isn’t just bucolic anaesthesia. It’s one of the most satisfying comedies on telly. It’s much more sharply scripted than it’s given credit for and has an endlessly funny central character.
Keep Reading at RADIO TIMES.
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Doc Martin's Family Business...
In March, the crowds came to Port Isaac. For four months the Cornish fishing village provided the location for a new series of Doc Martin, as it has done every other year since 2003. The show about a townie doc with blood phobia butting up against old-world village life has an international following. And they're followers that actually follow.
"You bet they come!" says Martin Clunes. "When we're out filming in Port Isaac and the crowds are there, it's just extraordinary. Since the second series [this is the fifth] we've had visitors from Australia and New Zealand.
Keep Reading at RADIO TIMES.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Episode Six on YouTube...
Episode Six - Don't let go.
Be sure to check out all the other great Doc Martin videos on MClunesfan123's YouTube Channel.
Be sure to check out all the other great Doc Martin videos on MClunesfan123's YouTube Channel.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Episode Five Photos...
Some great promo photos for Episode Five can be found on the Simply Television blog. Here is a sample!
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Radio Times - Remember Me (Baby Name Spoiler)...
Another biggish guest star arrives: Julie Graham memorably spent three years as Martin Clunes’s screen wife in William and Mary, and here they are again, reunited. Except they’re not quite, because in Doc Martin, Graham plays the wife of PC Penhale (John Marquez). That’s odd, considering we didn’t know he was married. It’s even odder that his wife thinks he’s only just arrived in Portwenn.Meanwhile, Cornwall’s worst restaurateur Bert Large (Ian McNeice) is deeper in debt than ever, a fisherman keeps fainting, Eileen Atkins desperately deserves more screen time as Aunt Ruth, and Louisa’s mother is still causing trouble, above and beyond her annoyingly nomadic accent.
As for the Doc himself, an episode full of the customary, satisfying sight of him being rude to people who fully deserve it has a glimpse of warmth at the end. That it’s hard-won makes it all the more affecting — Clunes is brilliant at letting those little flickers shine through.
About this programme
PC Penhale is shocked by the unexpected arrival of his ex-wife Maggie (Julie Graham), who appears to have forgotten that they separated years ago and wants to know why he left her. Eleanor goes on a date with local fisherman Paul Hale, an old friend she has not seen since school, while Martin and Louisa finally agree on a name for their baby - James Henry. With Martin Clunes, John Marquez and Caroline Catz.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
"I hated Martin as Doc Martin"... (Possible Spoilers)
Survivors star Julie Graham tells us about joining the cast of ITV1's Doc Martin (Sunday) and having to do kissing scenes with one of her best mates!
You play PC Joe Penhale’s ex-wife, Maggie. Why does she turn up in the village?
"Although Maggie is divorced from Joe, she’s had some sort of trauma and is suffering from amnesia so she thinks they’re still married. She thinks it’s April 2008."
Joe is pleased to see her. Is he hoping they’ll get back together?
"I don’t think he ever wanted to split up in the first place so he sort of goes along with it in a sneaky way, pretending they’re still married. It’s actually a very moving storyline. Joe is a lovely character and very funny. I know John Marquez, who plays him, really well. His daughter is actually my goddaughter."
Keep reading at What's on TV.
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Ian McNeice interview...
Below is an interview with the masterful Mr McNeice, with a little mention of Doc Martin.
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Doc Martin loved for being grumpy...
CANNY Martin Clunes reckons he knows the secret of Doc Martin's continued success.
The actor, 49, said of the moody medic: "I guess we all just love a grumpy old so-and-so."
The Cornwall-based comedy drama has become the saviour of ITV's weekday schedule, with the fifth series pulling in nine million viewers — three times more than much-hyped roulette show Red or Black.
Keep reading at THE SUN.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Martin Clunes: This Much I Know...
I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view – can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.
We have 14 horses. It's a nebulous world, in television and acting, it's all made up. So to sit on a tangible horse and worry about your tangible arse falling off is a good release. I've come off, but Chester and I have an understanding. I don't ask much of him and he lets me stay on.
Keep reading at THE GUARDIAN/THE OBSERVER
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Episode Four Photos...
Episode Four sees the arrival of the Portwenn Fun Day and the village is buzzing with excitement about this major fund raising event. PC Penhale is in his element rallying the runners and whipping up support.
The event sparks culinary rivalry between Bert Large (Ian McNeice) who runs Large’s restaurant with son Al (Joe Absolom) and Mark (Tim Goodman Hill), the landlord of the Crab and Lobster pub. They are both keen to take advantage of the day to boost their takings by providing food for the runners and spectators.
This episode also sees the arrival of Louisa's mother!
More photos can be found at Simply Television.
The event sparks culinary rivalry between Bert Large (Ian McNeice) who runs Large’s restaurant with son Al (Joe Absolom) and Mark (Tim Goodman Hill), the landlord of the Crab and Lobster pub. They are both keen to take advantage of the day to boost their takings by providing food for the runners and spectators.
This episode also sees the arrival of Louisa's mother!
More photos can be found at Simply Television.
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Episode Three on YouTube...
Better late than never right? Here is Episode 3 - Boho with a Shotgun.
Don't forget to check out the other great Doc Martin videos on MClunes123's YouTube Channel and Louisa Glasson's YouTube Channel.
Don't forget to check out the other great Doc Martin videos on MClunes123's YouTube Channel and Louisa Glasson's YouTube Channel.
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