‘Call The Midwife’ Season 7 Renewed; BBC Orders 3 More Seasons

“Call the Midwife” will be returning to the small screen again after its Season 6 finale last month as BBC has decided to give the show a few more seasons.

In a statement released this week, BBC announced that the network has ordered three more series for “Call the Midwife,” so Season 7, Season 8 and Season 9 are now guaranteed, Express reported. This new deal will also include three Christmas specials. The upcoming seasons will have eight 60-minute episodes.

“We have now delivered more than 100 babies on screen and like those babies, the stories keep on coming,” said Heidi Thomas, the creator, writer and executive producer of the period drama series. “In the 1960s Britain was a country fizzing with change and challenge and there is so much rich material – medical, social and emotional – to be explored. My research is continually bringing up new things.”

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Thomas also revealed that casting for the role of a West Indian nurse for Season 7 is currently underway. The new character made Thomas aware of the contributions of the West Indian nurses to the National Health Service (NHS) in the early 1960s.

“Call the Midwife” is a drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London in 1950s. The plot was based on Jennifer Worth’s best-selling memoirs, BBC noted.

Worth died seven months before the first episode of the series aired on Jan. 15, 2012. She wrote the book in response to an article published in the Royal College of Midwives Journal, which argued that midwives have been underrepresented in literature. Her book has since sold a million copies and spawned a TV adaptation.

While many are happy that the series was renewed, some believe that it should have ended after Season 3 because it has diverged from Worth’s original writing. One of these is the author’s daughter. “The third series has strayed quite a lot and because they’ve used up most of the material Heidi Thomas, the scriptwriter, is now making the material up herself,” Worth’s daughter, Suzannah Hart, told The Telegraph.

She added that she and the other family members were happy with the overall flow of the series and that Thomas was doing her research well and with sensitivity.However, the current series does not adhere to Worth’s original writing. This could be because while the family was initially involved with production, it is not the case nowadays.

“Call the Midwife” airs Sundays at 8 p.m. EDT. on PBS in the U.S.

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