Season Five Episode One of Call the Midwife on PBS Starring Mover and Shaker Chris Reilly Earns Whom You Know's Highest Recommendation. America: Put April 3rd 2016 8pm Eastern Airing on PBS on Your Schedule! Our Coverage Sponsored by Stribling and Associates
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A series that we've been enthusiastic about
from its inception is Call the Midwife, and America, you should be sitting at
the edge of your seat waiting for the April 3, 2016 Season Five debut at
8pm on PBS! This beloved series evocative of the charm of a day gone
by enters not only a new season but also a new decade: namely 1960's
London. It opens with the comforting, familiar voice of Vanessa Redgrave,
a series signature. For all those that came of age during this time, you'll also appreciate the music that accurately reflects the era.
Characters we already know and love
return. Trixie Franklin, who's clearly the most fun, has become quite an
evolved character showing her serious side as she dedicates herself to the
balance of her AA meetings with exercise class and comes out with some great
classic one-liners like "An elegant woman wears her clothes: they don't wear her" and "One must suffer to be beautiful." Trixie also absolutely has the best outfits! But
remember they are midwives, not glamourpusses.
We are pro-glamourpuss! We would
be all about cavorting in combinations and we probably have recommended some in
Fashion Alert at some stage.
As a show evolves generally speaking,
particularly in this genre, we believe it is harder for it to remain of the
caliber that it started with; if you look in our history of the Small Screen Scenes column you can see that although we may like a show’s inauguration, we may
not continue to write on every season.
We were impressed with Call the Midwife from the start.
Previously, Whom You Know Highly
Recommended Season One:
CALL THE MIDWIFE: SEASON ONE The
Original UK Episodes Only
The Complete Original UK Season Two
Earned Our Highest Recommendation:
The Complete Original UK Season Three
Earned Our Highest Recommendation:
Of course, we like what we know the best
across disciplines and if you thought we were excited about this show before,
consider that we know someone in it now.
Mover and Shaker Chris Reilly stars as Bernie Mullucks and
casting teamed him up with Liz
White, as Rhoda
Mullucks. Both deliver excellent
performances; they are confronted with a challenging situation as parents that
both react to with paramount emotion. This storyline is central to this
episode as the Mullucks family faces the shock and challenge of having a child
born with birth defects, of course, a lifelong physical trial that ultimately
in life is determined by how one reacts to it.
Attitude is key and Bernie and Rhoda’s evolution of response to the
birth of their child is incredibly touching.
We are also impressed with Shelagh Turner, who is master of diplomacy throughout this situation. Shelagh knows exactly what to say and how to
say it: she has the best delivery of lines. Oleg, how do you like Shelagh’s glasses? And Trixie’s sunglasses at the conclusion?
Of course, we miss Jenny and Chummy but the new characters give
the series a needed breath of fresh air and an elevated sense of interest and color
to the cast. This is how series that start off with a bang continue to stay on top.
For every ancient reading, the dinners at Nonnatus House are
going to bring you back to memories of sit-down dinners Tuesdays and Thursdays
at Miss Porter’s, except this doesn’t have the Perilhettes and we didn’t have
nuns.
Season Five Episode One Airing on PBS in
the USA April 3, 2016 has earned our Highest Recommendation.
Stay tuned for our first feature in Red
Carpet Cuisine, where we will suggest what you might eat when you watch this so
do your exercise class first with Trixie (clue: it’s by a Manhattan family
business that has been killing it since the 19th century).
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Neal Street Productions’ Hit British
Series Continues to Solidify
PBS as the Destination for Drama –
The critically-acclaimed British drama CALL THE
MIDWIFE returns to PBS for a fifth season on
April 3, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. ET. The Sunday night lineup on PBS also includes “Grantchester, Season 2” on MASTERPIECE at 9 p.m. and the
fourth and final season of “Mr. Selfridge” on MASTERPIECE, starring Jeremy Piven, at 10 p.m.
Season 5 opens in the year 1961, and
Poplar is beginning to feel the winds of social change with the improvements in
housing, sanitation and healthcare. But for the midwives and nuns of Nonnatus
House, it’s business as usual, as they continue to care for the sick and bring
new life into the world. The personal and professional lives of the nurses
remain entwined, as events in their work impact on their personal choices.
Throughout the season, the midwives
encounter complex and challenging medical cases, ranging from an outbreak of
typhoid to the increase in lung cancer, a teenage pregnancy and a mother who
vanishes. But all are rocked when two babies with severe deformities are born
under their care, several months apart from one another. As they struggle to
understand why, they must find ways to deal with the resulting medical and
emotional fallout.
Season 4 of CALL THE MIDWIFE averaged a
2.32 household rating with an average audience of 3.3 million viewers (P2+),
and the series has seen an overall growth of 9% since its Season 1 debut.
“CALL THE MIDWIFE is wildly popular in
the UK and continues to delight PBS viewers with exhilarating storylines and
its charming and enthralling characters.” said Beth Hoppe, Chief Programming
Executive and General Manager, General Audience Programming, PBS. “We are
looking forward to a remarkable Season 5 of CALL THE MIDWIFE and continuing our
relationship with our BBC and Neal Street partners.”
“We are thrilled to be returning to PBS
with our fifth season of CALL THE MIDWIFE, which I firmly believe is our
strongest yet,” said Dame Pippa Harris, executive producer for Neal Street
Productions. “Our continued popularity in the U.S. and UK demonstrates how keen
audiences are to watch character driven, emotionally engaging medical drama.
It's a testament to the skill of Heidi Thomas's terrific scripts and the
brilliance of our ensemble cast.”
CALL THE MIDWIFE stars Jenny Agutter
(“The Railway Children,” “Spooks”) as Sister Julienne, Linda Bassett (“East Is
East,” “Lark Rise To Candleford”) as Nurse Phyllis Crane, Pam Ferris (“Little
Dorrit,” “Darling Buds of May”) as Sister Evangelina, Judy Parfitt (“Little
Dorrit,” Girl With a Pearl Earring), who was nominated for a 2013 Satellite
Award for her work as Sister Monica Joan, Helen George (“Hollyoaks,” “Doctors”)
as Trixie Franklin, Bryony Hannah (Cemetery Junction) as Sister Mary Cynthia,
Laura Main (“Monarch of the Glen”) as Shelagh Turner, Emerald Fennell (The
Danish Girl, Pan) as Patsy Mount, Charlotte Ritchie (“Life Of Riley,” “Fresh Meat”)
as Nurse Barbara Gilbert, Victoria Yeates (“Holby City”) as Sister Winifred,
Ben Caplan (“The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies,” “Band of Brothers”) as
Sergeant Peter Noakes, Stephen McGann (“Emmerdale”) as Dr. Patrick Turner,
Cliff Parisi (“EastEnders”) as Fred, Jack Ashton (“Endeavour,” “Of Mary”) as
Tom Hereward, Annabelle Apsion (“Shameless”) as Violet Buckle, Kate Lamb as
Nurse Delia Busby, and Vanessa Redgrave provides the voice of the mature
Jennifer Worth.
CALL THE MIDWIFE is created and written
by Heidi Thomas; Executive Producers are Pippa Harris and Heidi Thomas. The
series is a Neal Street Production for BBC/PBS and is distributed by BBC
Worldwide North America.
CALL THE MIDWIFE (Season 5) full
episodes will be available for viewing on the PBS Video Portal for a limited time after each national
broadcast.
CALL THE MIDWIFE contains mature content
that may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised. Rated
TV-14.
CALL THE MIDWIFE (Season 5) will arrive
in 2016 to DVD & Blu-ray. Seasons 1-4 are now available on DVD and
Blu-ray on shopPBS.org. Additional items, including Jennifer Worth’s memoirs, published by Penguin Books, and The Life and Times of Call the Midwife, published by Harper Collins, are also
available.
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About Neal Street Productions
Neal Street Productions was formed in
2003 by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, and Nicolas Brown joined in
2013 to work across the film and TV portfolio. The company has been successful
in film, theatre and television with hit movies including Revolutionary Road,
Jarhead and Starter for 10. Their diverse television slate includes the
award-winning “Stuart A Life Backwards,” with Tom Hardy and Benedict
Cumberbatch, and the hugely successful “Call the Midwife.” The show’s fourth
series has averaged over 11 million viewers, and is the UK’s most watched TV
programme. A third series of Neal Street’s “Penny Dreadful” written by John
Logan, is currently shooting starring Josh Hartnett, Eva Green, Timothy Dalton
and Rory Kinnear and will air on Showtime in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK
in 2016. Neal Street also produced the critically acclaimed and award-winning
“The Hollow Crown” - a series of Shakespeare films for the BBC/PBS - starring
Ben Whishaw, Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons. A second series of “The Hollow
Crown,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes
and Sophie Okonedo is due to air in Spring 2016. On the theatre side, they have
produced The Bridge Project, Shrek the Musical and the West End musical of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes.
About BBC Worldwide North America Sales
and Co-ProductionsBBC
Worldwide North America is the main
commercial arm and wholly-owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) operating in the U.S. and Canada. The company exists to
maximize the value of the BBC’s assets for the benefit of the UK license payer
and invests in public service programing in return for rights. The company
operates four businesses in the territory – linear and digital content sales
and co-productions, consumer products, BBC.com, and two production divisions –
BBC Worldwide Productions, responsible for the smash hit Dancing with the Stars
and the U.S. version of Top Gear; and Adjacent Productions, producers of Da
Vinci’s Demons, Life Below Zero, and Ladies of London, among others. The
company also owns a 50.1% share in cable channel BBC AMERICA through a joint
venture with AMC Networks.
