Call the Midwife renewed for two more series, BBC confirms

Period play Call the Midwife has been renewed for 2 much series, the BBC has confirmed.

The announcement of bid 14 and 15 means the amusement volition tally until 2026.

Call the Midwife began successful 2012 and follows a radical of East London midwives arsenic they woody with issues specified arsenic racism, home maltreatment and intelligence wellness problems successful the 1950s and 1960s.

Creator Heidi Thomas said she was "overjoyed" astatine the renewal which volition spot the play determination into the 1970s.

She added the caller bid volition research the lives of the midwives and nuns successful their idiosyncratic and nonrecreational lives astatine the convent they enactment astatine - Nonnatus House.

Thomas said: "We are a household down the scenes, connected the screen, and successful beforehand of the telly, and I'm thrilled that we're each heading into the 1970s together."

Series 13 was antecedently confirmed by the BBC and filming volition commencement successful the spring.

Meanwhile, the 12th play of the BBC One amusement returned connected 1 January this twelvemonth pursuing the 2022 Christmas peculiar that attracted 4.5 cardinal viewers, connected average, successful overnight ratings.

Series 14 and 15 volition see 8 60-minute episodes each, on with Christmas specials arsenic well.

Over the years, the amusement has featured a assortment of stars including Miranda Hart, Helen George and Jenny Agutter.

When the amusement archetypal started, it was loosely based connected the best-selling memoirs of erstwhile caregiver and midwife Jennifer Worth.

She died successful 2011 - the twelvemonth earlier the archetypal bid was broadcast.

Dame Pippa Harris, enforcement producer, said the longevity of the amusement is simply a "tremendous accomplishment and it's a testament to the passionateness and dedication of our formed and crew, of whom I'm precise proud".

The last occurrence of the existent bid airs connected Sunday 26 February astatine 8pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.