Call the midwife starts this Sunday!!! Who's excited?

[Soubriquet]

I certainly am

I don't think it's a good as it was when it first started, and it can be a tad predictable at times but I still love this show

[TheSpottedZebra]

I'd never watched it before the Xmas special, which I watched at the weekend. All I could think about was a post I'd read (maybe on a thread to do with what you can waffle on about for ages?), that said how beautifully paired the colours were. And they were - gloriously so!

So yes, I'm looking forward to it, to see the lovely colours.

[BeyondWW]

Me!! Yes it can be a bit predictable and a bit umm... twee at times, but I love it

[isittheholidaysyet]

Well, I'm excited now I've read your OP. Thanks for letting me know.
I shall be in front of the telly at the appointed time!

[HollyJollyDillydolly]

Me! Love CTM

[Housewife2010]

I love it. I hope the vicar is shown in his vest again.

[buckbeak]

@Housewife2010 me too

[MelanieSmooter]

I adore it. Because In spite of the tweeness

[Katescurios]

So so excited and also already dreading the end of the far too short series. Call the midwife is the only programme I watch on TV, o just so Netflix for box sets otherwise.

My husband and all friends and family know not to contact me during CTM or they will be ignored till they go away!

[BikeRunSki]

Meeeeeee!!!!
DH texted me when I was out one evening last week when he saw the trailer, to let me know. Love him.

[Bochdew]

Ooh I haven't even got around to watching the xmas special yet! Must get a move on.

[CompassionateKebab]

I love it.

[Mrsknackered]

It's twee, acting is crap at times, predictable, medical side of things are questionable.

But I really bloody love it and can't wait.

I was a little at the Christmas special though, it had a lot of heavy going topics that could've really hit a nerve for some (and little prewarning)

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

I'm not holding out much hope after the Christmas episode and a trailer I saw which looked like the awful awful doctor and his simpering wife will still feature heavily.

I was also a bit when I saw an article where the doctor's real-life wife who is the writer described herself as the creator of the series, seemingly overlooking Jennifer Worth.

[BikeRunSki]

It's twee, acting is crap at times, predictable, medical side of things are questionable

That’s what I want on a Sunday evening

[Tigresswoods]

I love CTM & have watched it from the outset BUT it totally has got a bit twee. The Xmas episode especially was one to forget.

Also, & I may get flamed for this, I'm very up for showing the multi cultural side of London at that time but I feel the non-white characters are always a bit one dimensional & their only story as such is that they're non-white. The new midwife has been described as a "person of colour" & I hope there's more to her & she's not just another simpering lovely person.

Bring on the grittiness of the first few seasons, I don't want pretty dresses & community parties.

[JustDanceAddict]

MEEee! I love ctm - great Sunday night winter viewing.

[Fallulah]

Haven't seen the trailer - any sign of Chummy or Jenny coming back? I too am sick of Trixie.

[Tigresswoods]

Nah, those actresses don't have time for CTM!

[Chrisinthemorning]

Me too- just re watched from the beginning on Netflix

[NNchangedforthis]

Me too Chris - just finished!

[NewtScamandersNaughtyNiffler]

Can't wait. I'm currently binge watching the old ones on netflix

[MustBeThursday]

Call The Midwife is one of the few tv series I follow, love it.

AnneEyhtMeyer unless the writer means the storylines in the later series - I think they'd used almost all of Jennifer Worth's stories by the first Xmas special ( possibly the second) and it's now credited as inspired by or something similar not based on as the stories are now based on other social history sources?

[NamedyChangedy]

Ooh didn't know it was coming back, how very exciting. I adore this show, for some reason!

[IrenetheQuaint]

Yes I love the social history too. Though I've developed a nervous twitch in response to the patronising Vanessa Redgrave voiceover