'Call The Midwife' Renewed for Seasons 14 & 15

Call The Midwife's twelve seasons (and counting) is barely a drop in the bucket compared to most British soap operas and hospital dramas. Coronation Street has been going 63 years, Emmerdale for just over 50. It's not even close to the longest-running primetime medical drama either; Casualty holds that at 37 years. But for PBS, whose longest-running series (outside of Sesame Street) are all factual/documentary/reality in nature or anthologies like Masterpiece, hitting ten seasons was a significant milestone, let alone a dozen. Now, Call The Midwife is on track to become its longest-running historical drama, as the BBC has greenlit a renewal through Season 15, ensuring the program through 2026.

Call The Midwife was confirmed for Season 12 and 13 in April 2021, just as Season 11 began filming, and the series got its feet back under itself after Season 10 was delayed by shutdowns and lockdowns. Rumors had it at the time the BBC might go one more, with Season 14, taking the show through 2025 and 1969, but there was no official indication the BBC would continue it into the 1970s. With Netflix buying out the studios where Call The Midwife filmed, forcing the production to move house ahead of filming Season 12, it was unclear if the show would continue beyond its already commissioned episodes.

However, with things looking up in the U.K. for 2023, it seems the BBC had decided Call The Midwife's good cheer is too precious to go to waste. (Being one of the Top 4 Most Watched Christmas Specials in December 2022 probably didn't hurt either.) With Season 12 finishing its U.K. run ahead of the March 2023 premiere in the states, and Season 13 readying production, the BBC has confirmed Seasons 14 and 15 are officially commissioned to air in 2025 and 2026, respectively, and will almost assuredly debut on PBS directly following.