PBS finally confirmed speculation that it has picked up a second season of “Call the Midwife,” announcing Wednesday that the eight-episode second season will debut March 31.
“Call the Midwife”
(Laurence Cendrowicz - PBS)
PBS has also bought broadcast rights to the “Call the Midwife” Christmas special, which will air Dec. 30.
The show, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, is set in East London in the 1950s and follows the midwives and the nuns of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent coping with the medical problems in a deprived area of East London in the 1950s.
The first, six-episode season of the series clocked 3 million viewers on PBS — 50 percent above the programming service’s prime-time average for the 2011-12 TV season. (In the UK, the series opened with a crowd of 11.4 million tuned in, making it the highest-rated BBC new-drama launch on record.)
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