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Since the series' debut in 2012, Call the Midwife has been the gold standard of ensemble period pieces. It ushered in a new era of cooperation between the BBC and PBS, where a BBC show was allowed to premiere the same day on PBS as it did in the
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Call The Midwife Season 14 kicked off with a double-helping over the holidays, as the series debuted its first-ever two-part holiday special. As always, the Cristmas Day premiere of the series (which in this case was followed by Part 2 on Boxing Day), is quickly joined on the BBC by
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Christmas comes but once a year, and as soon as it's over, the entire Western world suddenly drops everything and rushes pell-mell over the cliff into the new year. Sure, the two holidays are a single week apart, and for many, this week is the one that doesn&
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It's Christmas time in Poplar in 1969 when Call the Midwife returns for the annual Christmas special — and this year, we've got a double helping! The nuns and medical staff of Nonnatus House are preparing for the holiday season while also helping out the hospital, which
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The holidays are officially here, and not just because this is the week of American Thanksgiving. Call the Midwife's production studio, Neal Street, took to social media to announce the conclusion of filming the 2024 Christmas special and Season 15. For U.K. and U.S. viewers alike,
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The BBC has announced it will be a double helping of Christmas joy for 2024, as it has been revealed the broadcaster's commission for the Call The Midwife Festival Special is a two-part double episode surprise. One of the most popular entries to the yearly special lineup during
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The trend of advancing a period piece series forward one year per season was not new when Call The Midwife began using it over a decade ago, but the ubiquity of the BBC's hit —which started in the late 1950s with Season 1 and will now cross in
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For viewers who aren't PBS Passport members, there's still one more episode of Call the Midwife Season 13 left to go. However, that hasn't stopped Neal Street Productions from getting on with Season 14 across the pond, with filming for the next season officially
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Call The Midwife's twelve seasons (and counting) is barely a drop in the bucket compared to most British soap operas and hospital dramas. Coronation Street has been going 63 years, Emmerdale for just over 50. It's not even close to the longest-running primetime medical drama either;