Seasons 1-9 of Call the Midwife joins a host of beloved full series catalogues available on BritBox in Canada including Downton Abbey, Silent Witness, Father Brown and Death in Paradise – just to name a few!īritBox is available for $8.99 per month or $89.99 per year- after an introductory free trial period -on Roku®, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV 4th Gen, Samsung, LG, Chromecast and all iOS and Android devices, and online at. The trailer for Call the Midwife on BritBox can be found here. Call the Midwife offers a fascinating insight into a community on the brink of huge social change. With just one eight-bed maternity ward to serve the whole district, the series follows Jenny as she travels through the streets to meet her patients in their homes.
Vanessa Redgrave provides the voice of Jenny Lee Worth, and stars such as Emerald Fennell ( The Crown), Helen George ( The Three Musketeers), Leonie Elliot ( Killed by My Debt) and Miranda Hart ( Spy) have joined the cast over the years. She soon becomes part of a team of midwives and nuns at Nonnatus House who provide the poorest expectant mothers with the best possible care. Based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth née Lee ( Jessica Raine, Fortitude), Lee arrives in Poplar knowing nothing about hardship, poverty or indeed, life itself.
BritBox will also be the exclusive premiere home of Call the Midwife season 10, which brought fans to tears when the series was renewed, and all future seasons.Ĭreated by Heidi Thomas and produced by Sam Mendes’ Neal Street Productions, Call the Midwife is a moving, intimate, funny and, above all, true-to-life look at the colourful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the late fifties and early sixties. Audiences will also be able to indulge in hours of behind-the-scenes content as well as the Christmas special episodes. Hinting at what to expect in Season 9, Heidi Thomas previously revealed: “After a magical Christmas experience in the Hebrides featuring wild seas, stormy skies and some very disobedient sheep, we return to the harsher reality of city life in 1965.”Ĭall the Midwife star Emerald Fennell, who played Nurse Patsy Mount, is currently back on our screens in the third season of The Crown, playing Charles’ future wife Camilla.BritBox, the streaming service from BBC Studios & ITV offering the largest collection of British television in North America, welcomes almost a decade of incredible television with seasons 1-9 of Call the Midwife in Canada on June 25. It may not have been the easiest of shoots, but it was a triumphant one!”Įight brand new episodes of Call the Midwife will follow on BBC One in the UK in early 2020 and on PBS in the US in the Spring. The perfect backdrop, in fact, for our famous crimson cardigans and hats. “There are storms, mountains, standing stones, anarchic sheep, and sweeping beaches that take the breath away. Set to premiere on Christmas Day, the episode takes the team to the wild and beautiful Scottish Hebrides Islands.Ĭall the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas introduced the special at a recent screening in London: “The Outer Hebrides is the most beautiful place I have ever been to in my life, and the Isles of Lewis and Harris make a magnificent setting for the 2019 Christmas Special. The BBC’s hit period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London returns later this month with a new feature-length Yuletide adventure. The first clip from this year’s festive Call the Midwife special has been released.
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