After watching last week’s “Call the Midwife,” we wondered whether or not there was a television series out there right now that makes us feel as consistently depressed. We’ve never questioned whether or not this is a well-acted or well-written series; instead, it has been more about whether or not it is something engaging to […]
In looking back at the premiere of “Call the Midwife” on the BBC last weekend, there were a mixture of great moments and also difficult ones. This is a show that is extremely well-done, but also at times difficult to watch just because of the depressing nature of the show. At times in the premiere, […]
While “Call the Midwife” may not have drawn the sort of huge numbers internationally as “Downton Abbey,” there is starting to be almost no question at all that this show is really the apple of many British viewers’ eye. The season 3 premiere on Sunday night ended up ultimately drawing a series-high 9.6 million viewers […]
Where does the story go from here on “Call the Midwife”? Thankfully, we are not going to wait too long at all to find out an answer to that. In the preview for next week’s episode that aired following the premiere on Sunday night, you had the opportunity to see a few of the stories […]
“Call the Midwife” is probably one of those shows that you either very much enjoy watching, or you find to be rather dry and boring. It is not a show that really makes some sort of grand overtures in the same way that many American series do; heck, it makes a Steven Moffat production feel […]
Leave it to the BBC to continue to surprise everyone when it comes to premiere dates. The new season of “Call the Midwife” starts tomorrow on BBC One, a good two months or so before it leaps over to America and airs here on PBS. While it may not always get the same sort of […]
Given that you just jumped out of another period in British history in the 1920s with “Downton Abbey,” it may be understandable that you don’t want to come back to the present. Luckily, a good show like “Call the Midwife” may be all you need to want to jump back into that TV time machine […]
