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There are very few things one can count on in the television landscape, especially when it comes to British TV. There will always eventually be a new season of Doctor Who, for example (even if it takes a decade or two). The BBC will ask if you have a television
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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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Call the Midwife celebrates mothers every week, but the Season 13 finale went all out to highlight maternal instincts and surrogate mothers in all forms. The season-ender began with the announcement of the Poplar Mother of the Year competition with the grand prize of a brand new washing machine (fancy!
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It's another week of Call the Midwife Season 13, and I am back with another rant about Matthew (Olly Rix). Every time he has the opportunity to redeem himself, he chooses to be self-centered or arrogant, or in this case, both. He finally clued Trixie (Helen George) into
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If anyone was hoping that Call the Midwife would bring a spot of cheer to the weekend, we deeply empathize with your miscalculation. It was a very depressing hour in Poplar for Sunday's episode and we are going to have a storm cloud of dread over our heads
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Normally, a day at the seaside would sound lovely. I was certainly looking forward to a nice beach day this week on Call the Midwife, but it was pure naiveté to believe that our favorite Poplar townspeople could enjoy some ice cream, sun, and sand castle building without any major
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Call the Midwife was all about lung health in Episode 4. The hospital provided tuberculosis vaccine tests to the local schoolchildren, leading Nurse Nancy (Megan Cusack) to the Chidozie family when two children tested positive. When Nancy visits the house with Dr. Turner (Stephen McGann), they discover that the family
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After two weeks of relatively happy endings, Call the Midwife decided to put us through it in week three. We settled to have a good time with our favorite midwives and nurses and instead had our hearts in our throats for the majority of the episode. Luckily, we did not
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If anyone has been feeling their inner feminist starving for energy, then this week's episode of Call the Midwife is the answer. The issues that popped up in Poplar in the second episode of Season 13 for our favorite midwives and nurses all had one common denominator: men,
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It's finally time to return to return to Nonnatus House, almost three months after we last saw them all in the December 2023 Christmas special, and spring is in the air. Poplar welcomed warmer weather and a new batch of midwifery students in the Call the Midwife Season