Call the midwife -Prequel -TV series and film plans that were unveiled as a series 15 with films

The BBC and the Neal Street have announced that production in series 15 of Call The Midwife started in co-production with PBS.

A two -part Christmas special in Hong Kong and Poplar will follow eight new hours of episodes at the East End, which will come to BBC IPLAYER and BBC One from January 2026.

When high -ranking members of the Nonnatus House employee go to Hong Kong on a Mercy mission, the younger midwives have to be completed alone. While the Christmas campaign between the sun-drenched Far East and a snow-capped East end is changing, sister Julienne is suddenly excited about the future of the order. After years of struggle for changes, she decides to hug it, to work with it and see what love can do. This change of energy is resolving 15 throughout the series. The new series begins in 1971, with some of the women hug the lib of women and burn their bras outside of Nonnatus House. In the course of the year we see that the team treats cases such as premature birth, placenta Previa, kidney cancer, tuberculosis and slavery.

In an exciting new development, Nonnatus House will also expand the world. A Prequel -TV series that plays in Poplar in World War II will be made for the BBC in 2026. Neal Street also produces a call the midwife film in development with BBC film. This was discontinued in 1972 and shows iconic characters from the existing TV show.

The new projects are written, created and produced by the impressive, purely female team behind the extremely successful current TV show. Showrunner Heidi Thomas and executing producers Pippa Harris and Ann Tricklebank, who also produce. You will bring together series 16 in due course.

Heidi Thomas Obe, creator and writer, says: “The opening of new doors in the Nonnatus House feels deeply emotionally and yet just right. Joy. And changes in the NHS have cut off the wings, and this is their chance to take flight and find out what is really important.

Dame Pippa Harris DBE, executive, says: “We all were enthusiastic about the way the audience continues to have Heidi’s imaginative and moving stories from Nonnatus house. In an increasingly competitive viewing environment. Enthusiasm feel like the right time to expand our world and our nuns and midwives with the prequel To bring canvas!

Lindsay Salt, director of the BBC -Dramas, says: “Call the Midwife has been a jewel in the BBC crown for over a decade, and this feels like the perfect time, the wonderful, perfectly realized world, the Heidi, Pippa, Annie and the Milles of the Show, which with passion with an exciting time, to call the midwife fan.”

Eva Yates, director of the BBC film, says: “Call the Midwife has always examined the problems and experiences of women in history brilliantly. With great excitement we contribute Pippa and Heidi to the extension of the Hebammer Universum to bring these wonderful characters onto the large screen.”

Further details on Neal Street Call the Midwife Prequel TV series for the BBC and the film with BBC film will be released later this year.

“Call the Midwife is a PBS treasure, and it is consistently one of our top rated programs since the debut for the American audience in September 2012,” says Maria Bruno Ruiz, PBS Vice President, Program Content Strategy and Planning. “The beginning of the shooting for the 15th season is a bit to celebrate! Our audience fell in love with the nuns and midwives of Nonnatus House, celebrated their victories and divided their losses and a” deep cry “with them and we look forward to what will come.”

This year’s midwife call series had an average of 7.8 million viewers and was one of the largest drama series in Great Britain in all channels and streamers. The Christmas special section 2024 was the most watched drama episode of the festive period with 8.9 million viewers.

Regular Cast Returning for the New Series Now Filming Are Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan, Jenny Agutter Julienne, Laura Main as Shelagh Turner, Helen George As Trixie Aylward, Cliff Parisi as Fred Buckle, Stephen McGann as Dr Turner, Linda Bassett as Crane, Annabelle APSION as Violet Buckle, Georgie Glen as Miss Higgins, Zephryn Taitte as Cyril Robinson, Rebecca Gethings as Sister Veronica, Daniel Laurie As Reggie Jackson, Renee Bailey As Joyce Highland, Natalie Quarry As Rosalind Clifford, Molly Vevers As Sister Catherine, Max MacMillan As Timothy Turner, Alice Brown as Angela Turner, April Rae Hoang as May Tang and Edward Shaw as Teddy Turner.

Commissioned by Lindsay Salt, director of the BBC drama, Call the Midwife is made by All3Media’s Neal Street for the BBC in co-production with PBS. The series is written, written, written, written and conductively written by Heidi Thomas, Executive by Pippa Harris, and Ann Tricklebank, who also serves as a producer. Gaynor Holmes is the executive producer of the BBC. The first row of Call the Midwife was originally inspired by the books of the same name by Jennifer Worth. BBC Studios distribute the midwife worldwide and has sold the series worldwide to over 260 areas.

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