{"id":76335,"date":"2025-10-13T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/76335\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:52:09","slug":"martin-clunes-joins-brilliant-doc-martin-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/76335\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Clunes joins ‘brilliant’ Doc Martin remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Clunes has signed up to join a show based on his hit beloved drama, Doc Martin<\/a>. Fox’s Best Medicine is the American remake of the long-running ITV show, which ran for 10 seasons and multiple specials between 2004 and 2022 before ending on Christmas Day 2022<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/a> and The Good Wife star Josh Charles has already been cast as lead character Dr Martin Best. Clunes will be joining in a guest role, playing Martin’s father, accomplished gastroenterologist Dr Robert Best.<\/p>\n

His character description explains that Robert is a headstrong man who makes his stoic son seem warm by comparison. <\/p>\n

What to Read Next<\/p>\n

It continues: “But underneath his snobby, stone-cold exterior, Robert is hiding a few secrets of his own that could turn Martin’s new life upside down, and force him to confront his past.”<\/p>\n

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The series sees Martin leave behind a successful career in Boston to work as a GP in a small village on the East Coast, where he spent his summers as a child.<\/p>\n

But when his father arrives, everyone is put on edge, including his estranged sister played by Young Sheldon star Annie Potts.<\/p>\n

Also joining the show is Grease icon Didi Conn, Suits star Abigail Spencer and Scream VI’s Josh Segarra. <\/p>\n

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Channel 4<\/p>\n

It was previously reported that Fox believed Charles’s casting<\/a> was the key to the success of Best Medicine’s pilot episode. The green light came in after the actor closed a deal to star in a full series.<\/p>\n

Executive producer Ben Silverman said: “The entire Propagate team is thrilled to be working with Fox Entertainment on this extraordinary adaptation by Liz Tuccillo of the global hit Doc Martin.<\/p>\n

“Josh Charles is the perfect lead for this brilliantly character-driven comedic procedural. Best Medicine is a world we’ll all want to be part of.”<\/p>\n

Doc Martin is available to stream on ITVX.<\/p>\n

The new edition of Living Legends is here! Buy Gaga in newsagents or online<\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99.<\/p>\n

\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

Catherine is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, and was the site’s News Editor between 2018 and 2024. Prior to that, she worked at OK! Online, and has interviewed a slew of celebrities across her career in entertainment news, including Tom Hanks, Cheryl and Noel Fielding. Catherine also has specialist knowledge in all things drag, interviewing a huge portion of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/a> stars, and getting her own drag makeover for Channel 4’s show Drag SOS. \u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>
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