{"id":709606,"date":"2026-06-02T03:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T03:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:59:10","slug":"the-us-version-of-doc-martin-arrives-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709606\/","title":{"rendered":"The US version of Doc Martin arrives in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJosh Charles has big, grumpy shoes to fill&#8230;.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Best Medicine, the US version of the long-running Doc Martin, is now being unleashed on the Brits.<\/p>\n<p>A UK review notes, \u201cThis initially feels less like a re-imagining and more like a repeat prescription. The setting may have shifted from Cornwall to Maine and Martin Clunes has made way for Josh Charles (The Good Wife), but the essentials remain intact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartin \u2013 who\u2019s been given the surname Best rather than Ellingham \u2013 is still the exasperated fish-out-of-water MD, still battling a blood phobia, and still circling a tentative romance with schoolteacher Louisa (Abigail Spencer).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Times has likened it<\/a> to having a US adaptation of The Office, \u201cwhich went on to carve\u00a0out a distinct identity of its own. And here,\u00a0there are early signs of something rather similar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis time, there\u2019s a suggestion that Martin\u2019s bluntness will be unpacked: a childhood bully resurfaces, and hints of a deeper sadness\u00a0begin to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps, then, this is a version willing to\u00a0probe where its predecessor largely observed.\u00a0For now, it may just require a quality the\u00a0doctor himself lacks: patience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series has been renewed for a second season by FOX.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t yet available in Australia, in case you were wondering\u2026.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Charles has big, grumpy shoes to fill&#8230;. Best Medicine, the US version of the long-running Doc Martin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-709606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}