Tag Archives: Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 7

By Leah Rozen | Posted on May 13th, 2013

Nonnatus House meets Hell’s Angels. That was what happened in the latest episode of Call the Midwife, with leather-wearing nuns and helmeted midwives zooming about on powerful, low rider hogs through London’s East End in 1958.

10 Tips To Help You Write The Perfect British TV Show

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on May 7th, 2013

Before we start, it should be noted that I’ve never written a hit TV show. Or any kind of TV show at all.

‘Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 6

By Leah Rozen | Posted on May 6th, 2013

Cynthia and Trixie distributing pamphlets about the X-rays. (PBS)

This week’s episode of Call the Midwife, the British series about a group of nurses and nuns who see to the medical needs of the poor living in London’s East End in the late 1950s, was a solid one. It lacked only in an appearance ...

‘Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 5

By Leah Rozen | Posted on April 29th, 2013

Trixie Franklin falls for the charming Clifford Raines. (PBS)

In an episode that would spark massive controversy if it were on an American TV show, the focus was squarely on birth control and abortion in the latest chapter of Call the Midwife, the popular BBC show that airs on the PBS in the U.S.

‘Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 4

By Leah Rozen | Posted on April 22nd, 2013

Her confidence may be growing with each case that she handles but Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine), the young nurse-midwife who’s the heroine of Call the Midwife, realizes that she doesn’t have all the answers in this especially strong ...

‘Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 3

By Leah Rozen | Posted on April 15th, 2013

No Chummy. Fans of the strapping midwife had to go cold turkey during the third episode of this season’s Call the Midwife as the character of Chummy, so memorably played by Miranda Hart, is off in Sierra Leone with her policeman ...

‘Call the Midwife’ Recap: Season 2, Episode 1

By Leah Rozen | Posted on April 1st, 2013

Some 'Call the Midwife' cast members, left to right: Helen George as Trixie, Bryony Hannah as Cynthia, Jessica Raine as Jenny and Miranda Hart as Chummy. (Laurence Cendrowicz/© Neal Street Productions)

Call the Midwife, the hit British TV show about nurse-midwives tending to the poor in London’s East End slums in the late 1950s, began its second season on PBS last night with an entertaining episode that brought back familiar ...

Miranda Hart’s Second Book in the Queue

By Brigid Brown | Posted on January 18th, 2013

BAFTA-nominated comedienne Miranda Hart, 39, (Call the Midwife) is set to publish a follow-up book to her recently published self-help autobiography Is It Just Me? (October 2012).

‘Call The Midwife’s Jessica Raine: “‘Doctor Who’ Is Magical”

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 16th, 2013

Actors must find it strange to wander into the middle of a full-scale cultural phenomenon like a long-running soap or, say, the longest-running science fiction show on television, and just sort of fit in. Especially if it’s not a ...