Doc Martin Returns To ITV

The UK can't get enough of the grumpy Doc, who returns for an 8th season.

Doc Martin has returned to British television screens on ITV for it's 8th (and perhaps penultimate) season. Clunes has teased on ITV's 'Lorraine' morning show that the 9th season might be the last. I think he might be right to do so...



The series has remained massively popular in the UK, beginning in 2004 and centered around prominent surgeon Martin Ellingham, who has left his job in London and moved to become the local GP in a quiet little village in Cornwall called Portwenn, Doc Martin is your classic 'fish out of water' story. Martin spent many holidays down in Portwenn with his Auntie Joan and decides its the best place to be after discovering he may have a fear of blood. The locals don't like his abrasive and condescending attitude to them and at first do not take to him at all, except for one, the local schoolteacher, Louisa Glasson.

The Cornish village of Port Isaac doubles for the town of Portwenn in the show.

Over the course of the series, we see Louisa and Martin get together, despite his socially awkward and habit for being very clinical, and the locals warm to the Doc and he, in turn, seems to have an affection for them. The life of the Doc and the colorful locals in Portwenn is compulsive viewing for many around the world (over 200 countries to be precise) but the show is gradually coming to a close I think. There's not much more of the story that can be told and Clunes probably knows this, so after the ninth season (ITV commissioned two more) they may end it.

But if so, how will they end it? An explosive finale? Maybe the Doc, Louisa and their son James will continue to live happily ever after in Portwenn or maybe they'll move away? Or maybe there'll be a death? There's probably going to be a death, I think. Something shocking to end the story.

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