Sir Alec Guinness, Julie Walters and Victoria Wood star in a season of feature-length dramas drawn from the BBC archive. The BBC long been making feature-length dramas for television, often with starry casts and from high-profile directors. However, once shown they often end up buried in the archive. Beginning this week, BBC Four and BBC … >
The “dark and brooding” six-parter is coming to BBC Four and iPlayer. Looking for your next Scandi noir obsession? The BBC have just acquired a show that might fit the bill – a Nordic drama with an Irish slant; North Sea Connection is a thriller which plays out on the West Coast of Ireland. The … >
Michelle De Swarte stars as a woman who suddenly has to embrace motherhood… or else! Described as a “… darkly funny, raw examination of motherhood, from the perspective of a woman who doesn’t want to be one”, The Baby is an upcoming comedy/horror series for Sky. The show stars Michelle De Swarte, who’s perhaps best … >
After a season spent boldly exploring complex and difficult themes, Call the Midwife delivers a finale largely focused on positive major life changes for its characters, like Shelagh giving birth and Barbara getting married. That’s not to say that the subplot this week about a woman who’s rushed to the hospital with a blood clot … >
Call the Midwife returns to BBC One this winter for a sixth season. It is now 1962, and the Nonnatus House team are as committed to caring for the people of Poplar as always. However, the social revolution in the outside world is mirrored by change and challenge much closer to home. As they strive … >
While Call the Midwife is typically more of an episodic show, its serialised stories have been some of its most effective. None has been more so than the story about the effects of Thalidomide from last season, which saw many babies born with deformities because their mothers took medicine that wasn’t known to be dangerous … >
When headlines announced before this season that Call the Midwife would devote an episode to exploring the effects of female genital mutilation (FGM), many were sure to have been wondering how this issue would be handled. With the assistance of anti-FGM campaigner Nimco Ali when writing this episode, the writers have been able to build … >
While the end of the previous episode would have you expecting that this one would be all about welcoming Valerie into the community at Nonnatus House, her character surprisingly takes a backseat in an episode that is much more focused on Fred and Violet. When Fred’s distant cousin Reggie (Daniel Laurie) with Down’s Syndrome is … >
Some sense of normality has been restored now that Sister Ursula’s no longer in charge, but it’s not like everything can ever really just return back to the way it used to be for the midwives of Nonnatus House. Trixie learns that as she presses Sister Julienne for more information on what’s happened to Sister … >
More than once in this episode of Call the Midwife, characters are placed in difficult situations and challenged to make hard decisions with only a moment’s notice. We’ve seen almost all the characters do this before, but the stakes are high as the maternity home is under scrutiny and a baby’s life is in danger. … >