WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Call the Midwife season 9 and 8 that may influence your enjoyment in discovering the plotlines. Read at your own risk.
The highly-anticipated Call the Midwife season 9 Christmas special has wrapped up filming. The characters were apparently in the Scottish island of Outer Hebrides, where they were temporarily helping residents in need of medical attention.
Amid limited water and electricity, Call the Midwife season 9's favorite nurses and midwives provided care for the locals. BBC shared a photo of the cast surrounded by a flock of sheep in this rural island/
This isn't the first time that the cast of Call the Midwife filmed at a faraway location to tell the story of these heroic nurses. In 2016, the show also did a Christmas special set in South Africa.
The network also confirmed that filming of the Call the Midwife season 9 Christmas special has finally finished. The cast is now back on the Poplar set to begin work on the actual ninth season, which is set to air in 2020.
Meanwhile, Call the Midwife season 9 is expected to open with a death. According to Daily Express, the first episode of the new installment will feature the funeral of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Call the Midwife season 9 will also usher a new era of innovation as society is changing pretty quickly. The nurses will be dealing with patients who have diseases like cancer, tuberculosis, and drug abuse.
However, a new threat will rise as the nurses and midwives learn that Nonnatus may cease to exist in Call the Midwife season 9. The building may be up for demolition, which will render the staff out of jobs.
Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas, however, confirmed that the main cast composed of Trixie Franklin (played by Helen George), Lucille Anderson (played by Leonie Elliot) and Valerie Dyer (played by Jennifer Kirby) would survive the events of the ninth season. She confirmed that she has finished writing the scripts as filming gets underway.
"The 1960s were all about change and challenge, and I don't know what's going to be happening to these three in two, three years' time, "Thomas said. "But I know it'll be exciting and I know we'll feel very invested in the journeys they go on and that'll take us right up to 1967."
Call the Midwife airs on BBC in the U.K. and on PBS in the U.S.
