PBS’ hit medical drama Call the Midwife is returning for a thirteenth season, scheduled to air in the winter and spring of next year. Here’s everything we know about the latest on this favorite show.
‘Call the Midwife’ Christmas Special
While we will, sadly, have to wait until January for the regular show to air, Christmas – and Call the Midwife‘s annual Christmas special – are just around the corner. According to sources, we’ll see Cyril (Zephryn Taitte) comfort a lost soul spending the holidays alone, while Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) worries it’ll be her last Christmas on Earth.
Trixie and Matthew’s Relationship
Season 12 ended with the grand wedding of characters Trixie (Helen George) and Matthew Aylward (Olly Rix), and the annual Christmas special will mark their first Christmas together. The viewers will watch how they navigate their lives as a new couple, but their relationship might not last long: Olly Rix is confirmed to be leaving the show at some point in the next few seasons (Call the Midwife has been renewed through Season 15).
There’s a host of possible reasons for where and how Matthew will disappear, but Rix has only been confirmed to appear through Season 13. It’s certainly not out of the question for whatever issue behind the character’s in-universe departure to have its seeds planted in Season 13. Only time will tell.
Two New Midwives Join the Show
Season 13 also features two new midwives at Nonnatus House: Joyce Highland (Renee Bailey), a young immigrant from Trinidad whose bright personality hides a traumatic past, and Rosalind Clifford (Natalie Quarry), a naive but tough midwife. What role these new girls will play, exactly when in the season they will join Nonnatus House, and how they’ll relate to the current cast remains to be seen.
Jessica Raine, Emerald Fennell, and Victoria Yeates in ‘Call the Midwife’
Filming on Location
Call the Midwife‘s official Instagram has posted a still of the series filming on location – in this case, the windswept southern English coasts of Sussex. We see Phyllis Crane (Linda Bassett) and Millicent Higgins (Georgie Glen) helping an as-yet-unnamed expecting mother on the seashore. We don’t know much of the backstory behind this scene, but we do know that the scene is in Season 13, Episode 5.
Call the Midwife is streaming now on Netflix.