Call The Midwife
Call the Midwife Special review – it wouldn’t be Christmas without this slyly majestic drama
The rousing, touching postwar childbirth drama has reached 1967 and is now so familiar it feels as if it’s been on air ever since. Prepare to be moved
Rebecca Nicholson
25, Dec, 2022 @9:25 PM
Mother of God! It’s Line of Duty already: 100 years of the BBC, part 10
From Jed Mercurio’s bent copper hit to Michaela Coel’s powerful I May Destroy You and Russell T Davies’s prescient Years and Years, the BBC shows it can still be innovative and provocative
Mark Lawson
07, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM
Call the Midwife review – pure Christmas comfort and joy
Leeches, breech births and heroin … it’s the usual mix of medical emergencies and social commentary in another festive special that yanks on the heartstrings
Emine Saner
25, Dec, 2021 @9:35 PM
Queen of comedy Charlotte Ritchie on Ghosts: ‘It’s loving, uncynical – and people fall over’
She got gross-out laughs in Fresh Meat, died superbly in Call the Midwife – and now she’s back communing with spirits in Ghosts. Is Charlotte Ritchie getting too famous to buy her own leggings?
Rebecca Nicholson
04, Aug, 2021 @5:00 AM
The one where … TV’s tired revivals like Friends reunited cover the same old ground
Why bother with getting the Botoxed gang back together when new shows are what we really need now?
Michael Hogan
30, May, 2021 @6:15 AM
Second to nun: why Call the Midwife’s medical miracles are a joke
The sheer number of rare conditions Dr Turner and the midwives of Nonnatus House diagnose would warrant a Nobel prize – and are making the series as silly as Midsomer Murders
Mark Lawson
27, May, 2021 @3:12 PM
Call the Midwife review – still shining after all these years
It’s been on our screens for a decade, but the BBC’s period drama remains as radical and relevant as ever
Rebecca Nicholson
18, Apr, 2021 @9:00 PM
TV tonight: back to Nonnatus House in Call the Midwife
The 10th series of the BBC drama begins in 1966 with another possible Thalidomide case. Plus: Batwoman returns. Here’s what to watch this evening
Ammar Kalia, Hannah J Davies, Jack Seale, Graeme Virtue and Simon Wardell
18, Apr, 2021 @5:00 AM
Emerald Fennell: the wickedly funny screen princess of darkness
After Call the Midwife and Killing Eve, the Londoner has turned director with her own tale of violent female revenge
Vanessa Thorpe
29, Mar, 2020 @6:01 AM
Call the Midwife Christmas special review – babies, it’s cold outside!
The ladies of Nonnatus House may be off to the chilly Outer Hebrides, but 90 minutes of heartfelt, high-octane drama in their company will warm you right up
Emine Saner
25, Dec, 2019 @8:30 PM
Helen George: ‘With its female-led cast and crew, Call the Midwife was ahead of its time'
The Call the Midwife star on filming a Christmas special and her new role in My Cousin Rachel on stage
Interview by Michael Hogan
25, Dec, 2019 @11:00 AM
Mrs Brown’s Boys – again: how groundhog schedules destroyed Christmas TV
Strictly. Call the Midwife. EastEnders. We’ve been here before. The BBC’s Christmas offering has stagnated, and now it’s do or die
Stuart Heritage
27, Nov, 2019 @3:09 PM
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