Doc Martin - Series 7 on ABC in AUSTRALIA - Finally!!

Recently renewed UK drama Doc Martin is finally back for its seventh season on ABC next month.
It moves from Saturday to Sunday nights from 7:40pm February 7.

In the first episode Martin is in Portwenn, but his wife Louisa is not. After their tumultuous time last series, Louisa has gone to visit her mother in Spain: she wants some time to think and to get some perspective on their relationship. Martin is faced with two questions: will Louisa come back
to him, and what can he do to make sure that she does? He knows he needs to change for the sake of his marriage, and has promised Louisa he will see a therapist in order to help him do so.

Found HERE at TV Tonight.

What's Worth Watching: Doc Martin on Acorn TV for Monday, October 5

Doc Martin, "Rescue Me" and "The Shock of the New" (available Monday, Oct. 5, on Acorn TV)

Stuck in Portwenn, the quaint seaside town he considers "the village of the idiots," with his wife off in Spain (with baby son) to get some distance to sort out their relationship, is it any wonder that Doc Martin's (Martin Clunes) bedside manner is particularly gruff? His bark has more bite than usual as Season 7 of the gently comedic drama gets underway. (The first two episodes of the popular British import are available Monday exclusively on the Acorn streaming service, with the remaining six episodes rolled out on successive Mondays. In January, American Public Television will distribute the episodes to local PBS stations.)

With the doc's strained love life the #1 topic for local gossip, Martin decides to take the plunge and see a therapist, a task from which his equally prickly Aunt Ruth (the wonderful Eileen Atkins) wisely recuses herself. She's a silent partner (but "not dumb," she snaps) in the B&B that bumbling Al Large (Joe Absolom) is frantically trying to get ready for customers. As luck would have it, two of Al's workers become patients of Doc Martin, who's distracted by being unable to reach the absent Louisa (Caroline Catz) on her retreat.

Keep reading HERE at TV Insider.

Guess Who’s Back? Doc Martin Returns!

After the fantastic news that Doc Martin was being recommissioned for a seventh series by ITV, we’ve had to wait a while for the popular medical comedy drama to come back to our screens. But fear not, the wait is nearly over as Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly) returns tonight as the grumpy Martin Ellingham.

But just in case you forgot what happened to the Doc and co, lets take you back. Series six saw Martin and Louisa (Caroline Catz) finally get married, but a life-threatening incident saw Louisa taking their son James Henry to live with her mother in Spain while they worked out their issues.
And so, as series seven begins, Martin is faced with questions: will Louisa come back to him; and what can he do to make sure that she does?  The good doc knows that he needs to change for the sake of his marriage, and in episode one, seeks out a therapist to try and effect this change. However, life in Portwenn transpires to get in his way – namely in the shape of Steve Baker, and a Lifeboat training exercise.

In this sense we get a familiar view of the unique and very watchable character that Clune has delivered us  over the past few seasons – assuring us that Doc Martin will remain the warm-hearted classic we know it to be.

Found HERE on TV Daily.

Doc Martin series 7 premiere review: Martin Clunes’s Dr is in therapy!

Doc Martin is quite an unassuming programme which rakes in the audiences whilst doing very little at all. However millions of people seem to love seeing Martin Clunes doing his grumpy routine and the audience will be very happy to learn that not much about the show has really changed.
In fact the only change in this first episode was the fact that Doctor Ellingham’s wife Louisa had scarpered off to Spain with their son leaving him alone once again. This first episode’s central narrative was the fact that Martin was desperately waiting for a call from Louisa even though he hadn’t heard from her in the three weeks since she’d arrived in Spain. In the meantime we follow him around as he looks forlorn, constantly checks his phone and barely sleeps even though he can’t admit to anybody else that he misses his family. One sacrifice he is seemingly willing to make is to see a therapist and one is eventually recommended to him via his Aunt Ruth. However, due to one calamity or another, he ends up cancelling one appointment and almost missing another. When we finally meet Martin’s new therapist Dr Rachel Timoney it appears as if the grouchy doctor may have met his match in this feisty young woman. I’m personally already anticipating the sessions between Martin and Rachel primarily due to the fact that the the therapist is played by the fantastic Emily Bevan.

Keep reading HERE at Unreality TV.

The grouchy Doc Martin is back... and we can't help but smile

The grumpy doctor is back on our screens. And we couldn’t be happier.

But unfortunately for him, things are a bit rocky in the seventh series – his wife Louisa has taken herself and her son to Spain to stay with her mother.

And Martin Ellingham (aka Doc Martin) has no idea when they’ll be back – which the village folk can’t stop winding him about. And some of us can’t help feel sorry for him.

Keep reading HERE at the Irish Examiner and check out a bunch of Tweets.

Doc Martin, series 7 episode 1, review: 'soothing'

You could imagine a great collective sigh of sofas as millions of us sat down to enjoy the new series of Doc Martin (ITV), the first for a couple of years. It didn’t seem such a long time to wait for the appointment when, in the first scene, a nosy postman probed the grumpy Cornwall-based medic (Martin Clunes) for gossip, and we were transported instantly back to precisely the same place we were when we last saw him – floundering over the fact that his wife Louisa (Caroline Catz) had left him.

It is an essential part of Doc Martin’s appeal that even if the last time you caught an episode was way back in series four (2009) – or even series two (2005) – you would still have found him floundering over Louisa. The Doc loves Louisa and Louisa loves the Doc. But never the twain shall meet harmoniously. Not even now they’re married and have a son. The principal pleasure, perhaps even the whole point, of this hugely popular drama is that nothing much ever changes.

The doc, the beating heart of the show, is an emotionally challenged incomer whose goodness is sheathed in a taciturn inability to connect fully with the world. Even after six series he remains a mystery. And that’s how we like it. Here, the Doc’s opening plea to his Aunt Ruth (Eileen Atkins), a retired psychiatrist, was to help him find a therapist to who could resolve his issues. But we already know it’s not going to work. 

Keep reading HERE at the Telegraph.

Doc Martin review: If I was Cornish I’d be cross – why are they all portrayed as bumbly, workshy idiots?

I’m only recently back from there – Cornwall, family “holiday”. Now it’s back down the M5 again, for Doc Martin (ITV). They’re very good at making it look idyllic, and for being there in glorious weather. Poldark too. Next time we go, if there is a next time (there were threats of mutiny and Spain), I’m going to time it to coincide with the filming of a popular television series.

He – Doc Martin Ellingham – wakes up alone. Actually it looks like he’s been awake for a while, thinking dark thoughts, way over on his side of the bed. At least spread out a bit man, do some starfishing, it’s one of the joys of being left alone. But joy – or starfishing – isn’t Doc Martin’s style. He’s more of a razor clam, long and straight and stiff.

Louisa has gone to Spain with little James, to escape their unsunny English husband/father, though it’s not clear whether the arrangement is a permanent one or not. There are little reminders everywhere, to make the pain worse for him – a hairbrush in the bathroom, a child’s toy to tread on. And further accidents – a dropped box of fish, a dropped shopping basket (that’s pretty much the same, isn’t it?), a bump on the head and a tumble down the stairs – are reminders that although the sit may be lovely, the com of Doc Martin isn’t the most sophisticated or subtle. Millions of viewers know better than any critic, though, and will continue to watch. To be fair, Martin Clunes is very good at stiff and alone and joyless. He carries the show, pretty much singlehandedly. Without Clunes, it’s just a series of bumps and mishaps and testical examinations (two in this episode) by the sea.

Keep reading HERE at the Guardian.

Doc Martin - Series 7, Episode 1 - Rescue Me (SPOILERS)

Martin Clunes returns in a new series of adventures featuring the curmudgeonly country Doctor and his patients in the Cornish fishing village of Portwenn.

After the ups and downs at the end of the last series, Louisa has gone to stay with her mother in Spain, to take some time out to think and to get their relationship into perspective.

In the first episode, Rescue Me, Martin is wondering if she will come back to him and what he has to do to make sure that she does.

Aunt Ruth (Eileen Atkins) has found him a therapist, Dr Rachel Timoney (Emily Bevan), but events in Portwenn continue to conspire against the doctor, the latest being Steve Baker (Daniel Ryan) and his life boat training exercise.

Steve and his assistant Barry (Joss Porter) are supposed to be helping Al (Joe Absolom) get the B&B ready for the guests’ arrival, but the pair are never there and the walls still need plastering. Al cannot rely on his father for help either as Bert (Ian McNeice) has taken the hump. Morwenna (Jessica Ransom) cannot help either as her flatmate Janice (Robyn Addison) has roped them both in to the life boat drill.

The training exercise becomes all too real when Steve collapses and Martin and PC Penhale (John Marquez) race out to help Morwenna and save Steve’s life. Martin needs to speak to Louisa and attend his first therapy session, but is marooned at sea.

Episode One - Rescue Me

Set your VCRs people - the Doc is back September 7th, on ITV at 9pm!