Shock update on Doc Martin three years after it left screens
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DOC Martin is getting an American revamp.
The hit ITV show, which starred Martin Clunes as Dr Martin Ellingham, ended in 2022 after 18 years.
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Doc Martin ended in 2022 after 18 years, pictured star Martin Clunes
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Now, it has been rebooted by Fox for viewers across the Pond.
Josh Charles from The Good Wife will play the lead in Best Medicine.
Highly successful surgeon Dr Martin Best relocates to a small East Coast fishing village, where his abrasive bedside manner quickly offends the town's eccentric residents.
The synopsis adds he has to win them over, while dealing with a phobia and his own psychological issues.
NEW SHOW FOR YOUNG CROOKS
CHILDREN'S book Crookhaven: The School For Thieves will be the basis of a new BBC family series that's due to premiere on BBC iPlayer next year.
It's about young crooks at the Crookhaven School where lessons in deception, forgery, and infiltration are part of the timetable.
Jodie's Con the job
JODIE WHITTAKER and Suranne Jones will be joined by a host of familiar faces for their new ITV thriller heist drama series, Frauds.
The series tells the story of Bert and Sam, whose toxic friendship will be pushed to the ultimate test as Bert tries to lure her pal out of criminal retirement to pull off a multi-million-pound art heist.
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Jodie Whittaker stars in new ITV thriller heist drama series, Frauds
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Lost Boys and Fairies actress Elizabeth Berrington and I May Destroy You's Karan Gill will play a master illusionist and world's greatest forger.
The six-part series will air later this year.
Talisa Garcia will play drag star Miss Take, who becomes intertwined in the criminal plan, and Christian Cooke takes on the role of moneylender Deegs.
Jodie Whittaker speaks out on Doctor Who future
Cast One Laughing
IT'S all about keeping a straight face, but TV hit Last One Laughing UK has given its makers plenty to smile about after a second season got the green light.
And I can reveal bosses are toasting their success by lining up a fresh batch of comics to take part.
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Top of the Last One Laughing bosses wish list are legendary duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French
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Rob Beckett has featured on the panel show
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Top of their wish list for the follow-up to this year's first ever British series, which was won by Bob Mortimer, are legendary duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French.
They also hope to sign Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Josh Widdicombe and Lucy Beaumont to the next instalment of the Prime Video show.
A TV insider told me: 'After the first series went down so well, there's confidence an even better line-up can be secured.
'Getting either Jennifer or Dawn will be a major coup, but there'll be no shortage of takers.
'It's only a day's work and their efforts would be broadcast to millions globally.'
The Last One Laughing franchise has been a worldwide hit.
Here in the UK, ten comedy 'legends', including Bob, Richard Ayoade, Daisy May Cooper, Rob Beckett, Joe Lycett and Joe Wilkinson, were tasked with making each other laugh over a six-hour period in a Big Brother-style house, with cameras following their every move.
But they risked being banished from the game if host Jimmy Carr or his sidekick Roisin Conaty spotted them sporting so much as a smirk.
Series two will comprise six 30-minute episodes and begin filming later this year, with a view to airing in 2026.
Jimmy said of a second series: 'I'm delighted. I think someone high up at Amazon clicked 'subscribe and save' on Prime Video and, hey presto, we're back.
'I'm so pleased people had as much fun watching the first season as we had making it.'
He added: 'I can't wait to bask in the reflected glory of the next ten comedy legends taking on the challenge.'
Something to look forward to.
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They also hope to sign Romesh Ranganathan
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Midwives get in 70s groove
IT first focused on the post-war 'Baby Boom' in 1957 when it hit screens on the BBC more than a decade ago, and Call The Midwife finally reached the 1970s earlier this year.
Now, first-look images from the set of the new series, which will be screened early in 2026, show how the drama has firmly shifted into a new decade.
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Call the Midwife finally reached the 1970s earlier this year
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Filming for series 15 is currently taking place in London's East End
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While Helen George is back in her signature uniform as midwife Trixie Franklin, one of the latest Nonnatus House nurses, Renee Bailey's Joyce Highland, sports a colourful dress as she gets busy fundraising in the behind-the-scenes peek.
She's later seen dressed as an angel for the Christmas show, alongside Natalie Quarry's Rosalind Clifford.
Filming for series 15 is currently taking place in London's East End, and will begin with a two-part Christmas special which sees characters travel to Hong Kong on a mercy mission.
It comes after it was revealed that Call The Midwife would return with a film, and a prequel series, which will step further back in time, being set during the Second World War.
The prequel will offer a view of life in Poplar, East London, during the Blitz, which showrunners have promised will feature 'some familiar (if much younger) faces'.
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Two cast members dress in 70s attire
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The series will be screened early in 2026
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