A brand new Doc Martin is headed to tv as Josh Charles (The Good Spouse) has been solid as Dr. Martin Greatest in Fox’s Greatest Medication, an American adaptation of the British TV collection Doc Martin. That predecessor collection may not ring a bell if you happen to’re not a PBS viewer, however it was a giant hit throughout the pond.
Doc Martin starred Martin Clunes as Dr. Martin Ellingham, a surgeon who strikes from big-city London to small-town Portwenn, a seaside village in Cornwall, after growing a worry of blood. Martin turns into a basic practitioner in Portwenn, the place his new neighbors name him “Doc Martin” and don’t perceive his businesslike (learn: unfriendly) demeanor. Regardless of himself, nonetheless, Martin finds neighborhood in his new residence.
The collection — which, in flip, was impressed by the same character Clunes performed within the 2000 movie Saving Grace and two TV prequel films — aired for 10 seasons and one TV film on ITV between 2004 and 2022. The solid additionally included Caroline Catz as Portwenn major college instructor Louisa Glasson, Ian McNeice and Joe Absolom as enterprising father-and-son duo Bert and Al Massive, and John Marquez as policeman Joe Penhale.
British producer and screenwriter Dominic Minghella — whose final title is an anagram of Ellingham, you’ll discover — developed Doc Martin at Clunes’ invitation. “Martin Clunes employed me,” Minghella mentioned on the Greenhills Podcast in 2022. “So it could have been fairly unusual to say Martin shouldn’t be in it.”
Nonetheless, Minghella had reservations about engaged on a TV present starring the “cuddly” Clunes — whom he known as “that beautiful one from [the British sitcom] Males Behaving Badly” — since he fearful such a manufacturing can be “too candy” and never fitted to a one-hour comedy-drama.
“So I believed, wouldn’t it’s a factor if Martin was nasty?” he recalled. “You recognize, simply make him actually unlikable and brusque and in no way [like a character] you’ve seen him play earlier than. And that basically labored, and [Clunes] actually liked that concept.”
So did viewers, 10.37 million of whom had been tuning in by Doc Martin’s third season, in response to the London Normal. The collection additionally gained the British Comedy Award for Greatest TV Comedy Drama in 2004, and Clunes gained three TV Selection Awards for Greatest Actor.
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Now the story shall be tailored for an American viewers with Greatest Medication, a one-hour comedy collection Fox ordered for its 2025–2026 season.
Charles will play Martin Greatest, an excellent Boston surgeon who turns small-town physician when he abruptly abandons his profession behind to turn out to be a basic practitioner in the identical quaint East Coast fishing village the place he spent summers as a toddler, in response to the logline.
“Sadly, Martin’s blunt and borderline impolite bedside method rubs the quirky, needy locals the flawed method, and he shortly alienates the city, despite the fact that he’s all they’ve received,” the logline provides.
The village locals don’t know that Martin’s prickly character hides a brand new phobia and outdated psychological points. “However tenacity is the creed of everybody of their small village, and the individuals who stay there could also be precisely what the physician ordered,” the logline says.
“The story of Doc Martin has resonated worldwide with its humanity, originality, and humor, and with Greatest Medication coming to Fox, that eccentricity will get a small-town America spin, full with idyllic appeal and absurdity,” Fox president Michael Thorn mentioned in a press launch.