Martin Clunes

Martin Clunes interview

Back after a two-year break, Doc Martin is one of TV's best-loved shows. Martin Clunes reveals...

Martin Clunes rules out Men Behaving Badly return

Neil Morrissey would love to bring the show back but an unconvinced Clunes quips: "He's doing it on his own!"

Martin Clunes: the 'Clunatics' still love Doc Martin

Martin Clunes is about to star in the seventh series of Doc Martin - but always gets home in time for farming, horse monopoly and riding his Clydesdales.

Men Behaving Badly reunite after 15 years

It was television's first introduction to a 'bromance.' And now, the loveable rogues of the nineties Gary and Tony have rekindled their flame as Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey reprise their roles for a one-off comedy sketch.

Martin Clunes & Neil Morrissey reunite for sketch

If you're a child of the nineties your little heart is about to do somersaults - Men Behaving Badly is back in a one off special for this year's Stand Up To Cancer.

Dr Martin Ellingham is brilliant, grumpy, imperious and socially inept as an obstetrician turned GP. These facts make Doc Martin a must-see for those prospective doctors who want to fit in to the medical establishment which, as you know, is filled with imperious, socially inept, grumpy doctors who may, if you're lucky, be brilliant. If you can't bear to watch Martin Clunes being curmudgeonly in Cornwall, you could watch James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelott Spratt in the Doctor in the House franchise or De Forrest Kelly as Bones in Star Trek to get much the same picture.

Martin Clunes has suggested that next year's series of his bewilderingly long-running ITV comedy-drama Doc Martin will be the last, because the writers have run out of ideas. This won't do, so here are five new plots that should be right in its wheelhouse: 1) Doc Martin pulls a face at a sheep, 2) Doc Martin pulls a face at a cow, 3) Doc Martin thinks he sees a boat in the distance but it's just a rock so he pulls a face, 4) Doc Martin can't find his glasses and then pulls a face when he realises that they've been on top of his head all along, and 5) Doc Martin pulls a face at a goose. You're welcome for the new series, ITV.

That cranky carapace cracks just a little as the Doc faces the repercussions of the painful events in the last episode. His marriage looks wounded beyond repair and he's stuck at home in pretty Portwenn with only his ghastly, grasping, emotionally exploitative mother for company.

It's the final episode and, as Doc Martin has never been a series that would ever willingly give in to the fervent hopes of its devoted audience (just think how long it took Martin and Louisa to marry) fans must brace themselves. Pour a stiff drink, find some worry beads and prepare to hold the hand, mentally, of this most difficult of men. He needs your support.

Martin Clunes is great as Martin and, even if you're ambivalent about the appeal of his flinty personality, you'll need a heart of concrete not to feel his every flinch of pain in an unexpectedly touching finale.

The gloomy Doc Martin becomes gloomier still as his many problems crowd in. He's not feeling well, he's lost a lot of weight and he becomes increasingly obsessed by the idea that something is badly wrong. A case of physician, heal thyself, surely?

And married life is a bed of thorns rather than roses as Louisa becomes unsettled and unhappy in the marital home. Their relationship takes a serious knock when Martin (Martin Clunes) behaves disgracefully at the school sports' day and at last Louisa (Caroline Katz) is forced to take a long, cool look at their relationship.

It seems that, very soon, Martin will have even more cause to be curmudgeonly.