'Call the Midwife' Season 14's Trailer Brings Protests to Poplar

Helen George as Nurse Trixie in 'Call the Midwife' Season 14

Helen George as Nurse Trixie in 'Call the Midwife' Season 14

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Christmas comes but once a year, and as soon as it's over, the entire Western world suddenly drops everything and rushes pell-mell over the cliff into the new year. Sure, the two holidays are a single week apart, and for many, this week is the one that doesn't quite ever gel properly. (That's especially true of years like this, where Christmas and New Year arrive on Wednesdays, effectively obliterating two weeks instead of just one.) However, one benefit of the forward-looking rush is that most Christmas specials are followed by trailers for next year's season, including Call The Midwife, which returns to the BBC right after the holiday.

The 2024 Christmas episode was a supersized helping of the final hurrah of the 1960s, but it was also necessary, as the show is at its own crossroads. When Jessica Raine, the show's original lead, exited the program at the end of Season 3, the series refocused on two characters: Helen George as the lovelorn Trixie Franklin and Laura Main as Sister Bernadette, who had just given up the cloth to marry Dr. Turner (Stephen McGann) and returned to using her given name, Shelagh Turner.

The Turner family is now an extensive clan, and Main continues to help anchor the ensemble. But Trixie became the show's breakout character as the perpetually single 1960s-era party girl and clothes horse. A decade later, her life changed: She's married, has an adopted son, and has a family that moved to America. Meanwhile, a new, perpetually single 20-something clotheshorse, Nurse Nancy (Megan Cusack), has joined the series. Giving the holiday edition two hours gave the show time to give both characters time in the spotlight, making their transitions to their new roles smoother.

And that brings us to the 1970s and the first trailer for the new season.

Here is the synopsis for Call The Midwife's kick-off episode for Season 14:

It's March 1970. The team supports a pregnant teenage girl whose parents believe in an immaculate conception. Demonstrations cause havoc for the Nonnatus team whilst Nancy's relationship blossoms.

Season 14 will see the return of everyone's favorites, starting with Helen George returning as Trixie, though technically, she's splitting her time between London and New York. (How bi-continental of her.) She'll be joined by the show's stalwarts Laura Main, Stephen McGann, Judy Parfitt, Jenny Agutter, Cliff Parisi, Annabelle Apsion, Linda Bassett, Daniel Laurie, Georgie Glen, Zephryn Taitte, Megan Cusack, Rebecca Gethings, Renee Bailey, and Natalie Quarry. In the teen cast, Season 14 will also feature Max Macmillan, Alice Brown, April Rae Hong, Ned Shaw, and Francesca Fullilove. 

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Call the Midwife Season 14 premieres on BBC One on Sunday, January 5, 2025. It will follow on most PBS stations in the spring of 2025 at 8 p.m. ET and stream weekly on the PBS app and the PBS Masterpiece Channel. As always, check your local listings. 

Details on whether that debut is on March 23 alongside Wolf Hall: The Mirror & The Light have not been confirmed; however, information on a release date and early access for PBS Passport members is expected to be forthcoming in the next few weeks.


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