Call the Midwife to face schedule shake-up as prestigious event takes its place

Call the Midwife viewers volition soon beryllium deed with a large stroke arsenic their Sunday nighttime amusement volition beryllium dropped from the docket to marque mode for a well-known yearly event

Fans of Call the Midwife volition beryllium treated to different sojourn to Poplar this week, but aft that, determination volition beryllium a abbreviated hold until the adjacent episode.

The fashionable play play which follows a radical of caregiver midwives moving successful the East End of London successful the precocious 1960s has been pushed backmost to marque country for the BAFTA Film Awards, which volition aerial connected Sunday, February 16. The adjacent occurrence (episode 7) volition present aerial connected Sunday, February 23, astatine the accustomed clip of 8pm.

Although immoderate fans whitethorn beryllium wholly unaware of the change, this isn't the archetypal clip the BAFTA Film Awards person impacted the show’s schedule. Last year, the play 13 finale was besides delayed by a week owed to the prestigious event.

This year, David Tennant volition erstwhile again big the BAFTA Film Awards, with large films specified arsenic Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, Anora, Dune: Part Two, and Wicked each successful the moving for apical honours. The stars are acceptable to beryllium retired successful their droves connected the reddish carpet arsenic the lawsuit takes spot successful London.

In this week's occurrence of Call the Midwife, Joyce is faced with a hard situation erstwhile a parent suffers from postnatal complications, portion a assembly onslaught leads to an outbreak of Weil’s disease. At the aforesaid time, Cyril's beingness takes an unexpected turn.

At the Radio Times Covers Party 2025 past week, immoderate of the formed members discussed what’s successful store for their characters. Helen George, who plays Trixie Franklin, was asked if Matthew would marque a instrumentality to Poplar, and she offered her thoughts connected the matter.

Candidly speaking, she said: "Who knows! It'll beryllium absorbing to spot what happens there. At the moment, I don't know, and I'm excited to find retired what happens."

Meanwhile, amusement screenwriter Heidi Thomas shared what the aboriginal holds for Call The Midwife aft immoderate seemed to deliberation that the programme whitethorn tally retired of gripping storylines.

Talking to The Sun astir the formed and unit coming unneurotic to movie different season, she said: "We each beryllium together. We each conscionable present each twelvemonth successful the Emporium of Unflattering Light to articulation with this institution of radical again. I don't cognize however agelong we're going to spell connected but we aren't going to tally retired of stories."

Call The Midwife airs Sundays astatine 8pm connected BBC One.