When Does Call The Midwife Series 6 Start? Premiere Date

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About Call The Midwife

Call The Midwife Series 6 comprises eight episodes and is slated to premiere January 22, 2017 in the UK, with US broadcaster PBS to airing the sixth season from April 2, 2017.

Prior to Series/Season 6, Call The Midwife aired a Christmas 2016 special.

More details on the special and Series 6 below:

Created and written by Heidi Thomas, the sixth series of eight episodes will be filmed on location at the historic Chatham dockyard, London’s East End, and Call The Midwife’s studio base in Chertsey, Surrey. The Christmas Special will be filmed on location near Cape Town, South Africa.

The Christmas Special this year will see Call The Midwife transported to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Nonnatus House receives an SOS from a tiny mission hospital. Understaffed, underfunded, and with a poor water supply, struggling Hope Clinic is faced with closure. Can our much-loved medics and midwives make a difference to the people whose lives depend upon its work? Far from home and everything familiar, the team are both shaken and exhilarated by the challenges they face - and by the time the mission trip is over, some lives are permanently changed.

Sinead Cusack joins the Christmas Special cast, playing Dr Myra Fitzsimmons who runs the threatened Hope Clinic. Regular cast currently filming near Cape Town are Jenny Agutter (Sister Julienne), Linda Bassett (Nurse Crane), Victoria Yeates (Sister Winifred), Laura Main (Shelagh Turner), Stephen McGann (Dr Turner), Jack Ashton (Tom), Helen George (Trixie), Charlotte Ritchie (Barbara) and Cliff Parisi (Fred).

Production will then return to the UK for the eight episodes in series six. 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 to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, our beloved medics must make choices - and fight battles - of their own. Series six will see them laugh together, cry together, and pull together, supporting each other as never before.

Miranda Hart (Chummy) makes an appearance in the Christmas Special, and returns to Nonnatus House for the series from episode one.

Made by Neal Street Productions for BBC One, Call The Midwife has been one of Britain’s most popular drama series since it launched in 2012 and it continues to be one of the most watched dramas in the UK, with all five series to date gaining over 10m viewers. The series five finale was this year’s most-watched drama episode in the UK, with overnight figures of 9.2million and a 38.4 per cent share of total TV viewing.