According to Media Week's stats, "Doc Martin" recieved 38.7% of the TV shares when the second episode was aired, equalling 8.4 million viewers, which was only 1 million less than the first episode pulled.

Whereas Caitlin Moran wrote a scathing article about British TV comedy series's titled Is this sit-crumb or mumedy?. In it she says about "Doc Martin":

"Really, programmes like these things ought not to be classified as comedies. It's not even 'comedy-drama,' which always has the suggestion that it's dealing with powerful situations, occasionally relieved by gallows humour - such as soldiers getting their legs blown off and then lighting the fags off their burning crotches and sighing 'Condor' .

"Not something where a grumpy doctor shouting 'Bugger off! All of you!' is considered a punchline. Or where the question: 'How have you managed to get an all-star cast of Martin Clunes, Celia Imrie, Stephanie Cole, Felicity Montague and Joe Absolom to commit to a lavish six-month shoot set in a beautiful Cornish village?' quietly goes off and solves itself."

But The Scotsman is more praising and says:

"Clunes is superb as the tetchy doctor who's scared of blood (the reason he packed in his starry career), and the rest of the cast list is packed with talent - Celia Imrie and Richard Johnson as the toffs, with Stephanie Cole as the doc's Aunt Joan. It glides like a Bentley, purrs like a Rolls."

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