{"id":19594,"date":"2021-04-13T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=19594"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:35:43","slug":"bbc-announces-two-further-series-of-award-winning-drama-call-the-midwife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/13\/bbc-announces-two-further-series-of-award-winning-drama-call-the-midwife\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Announces Two Further Series of Award-Winning Drama &#8220;Call the Midwife&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19595\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/call-the-midwife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/call-the-midwife.jpg 650w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/call-the-midwife-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two more series of multiple award-winning <strong><em>Call The Midwife<\/em><\/strong> have been commissioned for BBC One.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s an incredible privilege to be able to look back on a decade of <em>Call The Midwife<\/em>, and yet know that our journey is still very far from over. &#8211; Heidi Thomas<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With series ten due to launch on Sunday 18 April @ 8PM and series 11 about to commence filming, <em>Call The Midwife<\/em> will now be on air until 2024. Series 12 and 13, commissioned by Piers Wenger, Director of BBC Drama and Charlotte Moore, Chief Content Officer, will consist of two 8 episode x 60-minute series and two Christmas specials.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1590721542\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Made by Neal Street Productions for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, <em>Call The Midwife<\/em> is celebrating its tenth anniversary series this year and continues to be one of Britain&#8217;s most popular and most-watched drama series since it launched in 2012. The series attracts an enormous audience for BBC One, with its Christmas Specials achieving over 9 million viewers. Series nine was also the fourth biggest drama across all channels in 2020. The drama has won multiple awards across the decade for its depiction of challenging medical stories which are tackled by the nuns and midwives of Poplar.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi Thomas, Creator, Writer, and Executive Producer, says: &#8220;It&#8217;s an incredible privilege to be able to look back on a decade of Call The Midwife, and yet know that our journey is still very far from over. We are thrilled to be going on for a few more years! Like Nonnatus House itself, we have a proud past but an even more exciting future &#8211; full of old favourites, fresh faces, higher hemlines, new ideas. The stories we tell are like babies &#8211; they never stop coming, we love them all, and we vow to do our best by every single one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pippa Harris, Executive Producer for Neal Street Productions, says: &#8220;We are all delighted by this vote of confidence from the BBC, and are looking forward to delivering more laughter, tears and babies for our loyal fans. Over the past ten years it has been an honour to see how warmly the show has been embraced by audiences around the world, thanks to the skilful writing of Heidi Thomas and the brilliant work of our cast and crew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Piers Wenger, Director of BBC Drama, says: &#8220;The enduring popularity of <em>Call The Midwife<\/em> is a testament to the extraordinary love and creativity from its creator Heidi Thomas and its producers Pippa Harris and Ann Tricklebank. 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