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BBC News
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Fisherman's Friends to host new festival in Cornwall
Fisherman's Friends are set to stage their own festival next year - as their popularity now makes it impossible for them to perform in their home village in Cornish folk group has announced plans to host the first Fisherman's Friends Festival in May sea shanty band from Port Isaac, who have been performing together since 1995, can no longer perform in the village as "too many people turn up for it to be safe".But, having previously played the main stage at Glastonbury and the Royal Albert Hall, they said a festival seemed "like a natural progression" for them. A spokesman for the band said: "The guys are no longer able to perform on The Platt in Port Isaac because of health and safety - too many people turn up - and every show they headline in their home county sells out really fast. "Creating their own festival seems like a good way to give people an authentic taste of the authentic FF vibe, while showcasing the Cornwall they love."Fisherman's Friends went from singing in their local pub to having a top 10 UK album, a movie made about them and also a member Jon Cleave said it would be a "brand new festival down in the very heart of our wondrous county at Stithians, in what promises to be a Cornish occasion for all friends you've known for years and for all those you've yet to meet."Jools Holland OBE and his 20 piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra will perform as well as Mercury Prize winner Kate Rusby, Celtic band Skipinnish and will be able to camp and enjoy local foods, drinks and festival will take place at the Stithians Showground on Friday 22 until Sunday 24 May 2026.
Daily Mail
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Beloved British drama is getting a US remake with Emmy nominated actor set to take over iconic role as fumbling practitioner
Hit ITV drama Doc Martin is set for a US remake without Martin Clunes, who played the grumpy GP for nearly two decades. Instead Emmy nominated actor Josh Charles, famous for TV series The Handmaid's Tale and The Good Wife, will take over as the miserable medic. The Fox network will remake the iconic show, but set it on the east coast of the US instead of Cornwall. It will also change its name to Best Medicine. Nevertheless Clunes, 63, who featured in all ten seasons of the primetime hit – which regularly drew in over eight million viewers – is already well known and popular in the US as the UK show is a huge hit on the PBS Network. In the UK version – filmed in Port Isaac – Clunes plays the character of Doctor Martin Ellingham, a surgeon who quits his glittering career in London to inexplicably take up the role of GP in the fictional village of Portwenn, where he enjoyed childhood holidays. His cold and unemotional manner alienates locals while they are impressed by his medical expertise. He gradually comes to be accepted in Portwenn as more is revealed about his past – including his phobia of blood which has blighted his stellar career. In Best Medicine, the identical plot centres on Doctor Martin Best, played by Charles and described as 'a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child'. The tagline continues: 'Martin's blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he's all they've got.' In the UK version of the popular show – filmed in Port Isaac, Cornwall – Martin Clunes, 63, plays the character of Doctor Martin Ellingham (pictured), a surgeon who quits his glittering career in London to inexplicably take up the role of GP in the fictional village of Portwenn As fans of the original show will know, the locals don't know that the doctor's frosty demeanour masks a 'debilitating new phobia and deep-seated psychological issues that prevent him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone'. Best Medicine will mark the seventh international adaptation of the British series, which has 'resonated worldwide with its humanity, originality and humour', according to President of Fox Television Network Michael Thorn. Doc Martin ran on ITV between 2004 and 2022. Clunes recently refused to reveal if he would return to the role, suggesting: 'I'm almost at the age where a GP has to retire, you see. Eighteen years of private medicine!'
