‘Call The Midwife’ Adds Miriam Margolyes For 2018 Christmas Special
Miriam Margolyes (Warner Bros' Harry Potter film series) has signed on for a guest-starring role in Call The Midwife for this year's Christmas special. Production on the special and the eighth season is now underway. She will play Sister Mildred, a forthright and indefatigable sister from the Order. She arrives unexpectedly at Nonnatus House, her hands full with four Chinese orphans. Having fled China, the child refugees were found abandoned in Hong Kong and are being adopted in the UK as part of the World Refugee Project. 
The seventh season of Call The Midwife will premiere on BBC One on Sunday January 21st at 8pm, it has been announced. 
The Call The Midwife Christmas special will premiere on BBC One on Christmas Day (Monday December 25th) at 7:40pm, it has been announced. 
The sixth season of Call The Midwife will premiere on BBC One on Sunday January 22nd at 8pm, it has been announced. 
BBC One's hit period drama Call The Midwife has earned a bumper renewal, scoring a three-season pick up that will see it remain on air until at least its ninth season in 2020. Alongside these three new seasons, all of which will run eight episodes, a further three Christmas Specials have also been ordered. 
BBC One has released the first trailer for this year's Call The Midwife Christmas Special, which is set to premiere on Christmas Day (Friday December 25th) at 7:30pm.