Despite the on-going COVID pandemic, Call The Midwife is on track to return this Christmas. Filming is now underway on the Christmas special of the BBC's long-running period drama. Production on season ten will begin following the special, but as a result of the later than usual production start the order for season ten has been trimmed to seven episodes. 
Sky Atlantic has handed out a third season renewal to their period drama Britannia. The pick up comes a couple of month after the show's second season premiered on the channel. 
Filming has now started on the ninth season of BBC One's hit period drama Call The Midwife. This comes after production recently wrapped on this year's Christmas special. 
Sky Atlantic has released three first look images from the upcoming second season of Britannia, which is set to premiere later this year. 
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. 
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.