Call the Midwife Season 9 is in the works, so fans will once again see Jennifer (Vanessa Redgrave), Shelagh (Laura Main), and the rest of the cast return to the small screen. But aside from the new season, the show will have a Christmas special later this year as a gift to loyal fans.
BBC has renewed the show for three seasons. So, after Season 9, fans will be secured to see Season 10 and Season 11 in the future. Hence, the series will stay on air until, at least, 2022.
"Even after all these years, it still feels as though Call the Midwife has more truth to tell, more tears to cry, more life to celebrate, and more love to give," creator and writer Heidi Thomas said, via Radio Times. "We are blessed with the best cast, crew, and audience a show could wish for, and I could not be more excited about our future."
Neal Street Productions executive producer Pippa Harris, on the other hand, added they are thrilled that BBC has put so much faith in the series by renewing it for two more seasons. Just like fans, they, too, can't wait to see their cast and crew addressing issues of today from the entire society to media changes that the swinging sixties will tackle.
In Call the Midwife Season 9 official synopsis, it teases the coming of new challenges for the team. In the new season, the society will become more prosperous, but more complicated at the same time. The tower blocks multiply, and the new East End rises from the ashes of the old.
The team of medics and midwives will face extraordinary challenges as the population changes, rules alter, and old diseases return to haunt everyone. There will be cases of drug abuse, cancer, and tuberculosis that the group needs to handle. They, too, have to cope up with the threat of Nonnatus House's demolition.
Will they manage to save Nonnatus House or their future will be thrown to waste? Also, Express noted there would be a funeral of Winston Churchill, which was held in January 1965.
Call the Midwife Season 9 already started filming. An image from its Christmas episode has emerged, giving a glimpse to the team's new activity. Here, Mother Mildred (Miriam Margoyles) will lead the group to the Scottish Outer Hebrides.
They will try their best to fight the bleak conditions to help their patients before they return to Poplar for Christmas. The snap just showed their unusual location, where they are in a very different situation than they used to. Call the Midwife Season 9 is set to be out in early 2020 on BBC1, while the Christmas special will be seen in December.
