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Sunday, March 25, 8 p.m.
PBS is transporting viewers back to East London with the return of the critically acclaimed British drama, Call the Midwife. The series returns with its seventh season on March 25, 2018, with back-to-back episodes from 8:00-10:00 p.m. on PBS.
Nonnatus House welcomes a new midwife, Lucille Anderson played Leonie Elliot (Wondrous Oblivion, Danny and the Human Zoo, Black Mirror), the first West Indian midwife to be featured as a series regular. Nurse Lucille is elegant, compassionate and clever, as well as swift to settle in and bring a fresh new energy to life at Nonnatus House. The story of Nurse Lucille reflects the experiences of Carribean nurses who traveled to the U.K. in the 1960s to support the expanding National Health Service.
The seventh season of Call the Midwife opens as the "Big Freeze" of 1963 continues and the midwives persevere through the intense winter. The nuns and nurses of Nonnatus are tested, both personally and professionally, as they have never been before. They observe the changes in their surroundings. The old East End begins to vanish as slum clearances make way for bold new tower blocks to accommodate expanding communities. From breech birth to cancer, Huntington's chorea and cataracts, the nurses find themselves afflicted with an array of medical challenges. Focusing the scope into the personal lives of the characters, Trixie and Christopher continue to develop their romance, while Tom and Barbara enjoy life as a married couple. Nurse Crane's authority is questioned from an unexpected source, and Sister Monica Joan is forced to accept her failing faculties. Additionally, life for the Turners is turned upside down when Shelagh decides to employ an au pair.
"We are thrilled to be bringing another series of Call the Midwife to our loyal audience in America, together with our partners at PBS. The series goes from strength to strength thanks to Heidi Thomas's creativity and skill as a screenwriter, and the brilliance of our cast and crew," said Dame Pippa Harris, Executive Producer for Neal Street Productions.
Creator and Executive Producer Heidi Thomas said, "Call the Midwife is a love letter to community, family, babies and the strength of women. We're thrilled to be able to share Season Seven with our loyal and much-loved PBS fans."
