After the previous season finale, fans are now eager to know what will happen to their favorite characters in Call the Midwife Season 9. Viewers will continue to see all the nurse-midwives until 2022 after BBC has commissioned the series until Season 11. So, what will happen in the upcoming installment? Here is everything we know so far.
"Even after all these years, it still feels as though Call the Midwife has more truth to tell," creator and writer Heidi Thomas said about the show, per Deadline. "We are blessed with the best cast, crew, and audience a show could wish for."
Executive Producer Pippa Harris, on the other hand, said they are all thrilled that the BBC has put so much faith in the series by commissioning it for two more seasons. In Call the Midwife Season 9, she admitted they are also excited to see the cast and crew tackle the social and medical changes that happened in the 1960s.
Each season of the show is set a year on Poplar, so the new season will take place in January of 1965 when the funeral of Winston Churchill happened. The Nonnatus House will reportedly enter a "bold and innovative era" in the middle of the 1960s, which will show the rebuilding and rising of Poplar.
According to BBC, the much-loved familiar characters will face "unexpected challenges" as the population shifts, rules change, and old diseases return to haunt everyone in Call the Midwife Season 9. Some of the confirmed diseases that would be seen are diphtheria, tuberculosis, fistula, and drug abuse, Cheat Sheet noted.
However, it is not yet revealed what would happen to the midwives and their individual stories in the new season. But with what occurred in the previous installment, there are theories about what would come in the next season.
Trixie (Helen George) may experience career advancement in Season 9 after she had thrown herself into her craft in Season 8. She even started to assist Doctor Turner (Stephen McGann) at the time. Elsewhere, fans wanted to see Lucille (Leonie Elliott) and Cyril's (Zephryn Taitte) romance to go forward.
When the previous season ended, it revealed the show would return with a Christmas special this coming holiday season. Hence, there is a big possibility that Call the Midwife Season 9 will follow the previous seasons' format by starting with a Christmas special and begin its usual eight-episode run in early 2020.
