Should Call the Midwife season 8 have more than eight episodes and a special?

Are we going to see Call the Midwife season 8 put eight episodes on the air plus a Christmas Special? Absolutely, but for the sake of this article, isn’t it okay to dream for a little bit of something more? We like to think so, given that this is a series that seems to be off the air for an eternity almost every single year that it is around.

If nothing else, you can certainly proclaim that Call the Midwife is, as a whole, consistent with its programming strategy. It gives you eight weeks of new episodes in January, February, and March, and then goes off the air until December. Is it possible to do more episodes than this? Maybe in theory, but there are some reasons why the show doesn’t.

The writing – Heidi Thomas is the genius behind the show and she works with a small group of writers to keep Call the Midwife wonderful every year. If you start to order more episodes you, in turn, make matters a little more demanding for them. You don’t want to put so many out that each one doesn’t feel special on their own. Also, eight episodes of this show sans commercials plus a Christmas Special is pretty much the equivalent of thirteen episodes of a show with commercials wedged in.

The acting – If this show was so demanding that the cast was filming for nine or ten months of the year, it would be hard to keep anyone on board the cast. As it is that is certainly quite the challenge in its own right.

The viewing public – One of the reasons we believe the show stays successful is it feels like an event every year when it’s on. If you start to plug in Call the Midwife all across the board with the schedule, you do start to lose a little bit of that special feeling.

Related – Read some of our other coverage of the series.

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