Sunday March 18,2012
By David Stephenson
WANT to cast a comedy drama or a sitcom? Then go no further than Martin Clunes, our foremost character actor. Not that he is particularly looking for other projects, mind. In his year off from Doc Martin he is doing a documentary on Madagascar and a film for the Born Free Foundation.
After his series about dogs and horses, Clunes is never far from the animal kingdom but this week Cornwall is on his mind with the release of the latest DVD of the universally loved Doc Martin. We talk about “the baby”.
Clunes says: “I guess we have to put in new elements to stop it being really repetitive. Just ‘Man sees patient...’ wouldn’t work but we have to have that as well.”
The plot lines, he reveals, he develops with his wife Philippa Braithwaite, who makes the show with him. “She is the main brain,” he says. “We’ve started doing series six story lines now. “I never want to meddle with the premise, warm him up, but we are very self-conscious about repeating ourselves with the relationship with Louisa, so we are always trying to do it slightly different.
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