Call the Midwife falls victim to schedule shake up as BBC drama is taken off air mid-series after weeks of soap chaos

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CALL The Midwife fans will be left disappointed if they were planning to tune in this Sunday, as the drama has been moved off the BBC schedule.

Call the Midwife, which typically airs on a Sunday evening on BBC One, will be moved for a couple of weeks meaning viewers will need to wait a few weeks to catch up.

A group of nurses and nuns seated at a table for a meal.
Call the Midwife will be off air temporarily due to a change in the BBC schedule
Collage of nurses from Call the Midwife.
Call the Midwife’s 14th season will continue at the end of February

The BAFTAs will see the show move on Sunday 16th February and leave fans waiting to watch the penultimate episode.

This happened last year too, with the season 13 finale moved out too.

Fans can still watch the midwives in Poplar this week, with the drama set to show Joyce facing a difficult situation when a mother suffers postnatal complications, while a council strike leads to an outbreak of Weil’s disease, and Cyril finds his life turned upside down.

Whilst viewing is interrupted in a few weeks, Call the Midwife will return on Sunday 23rd February at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

This series has already proved a popular hit with viewers, yet fans have been left fearing for show star after ‘disappearing’ from the new series.

Timothy Turner was last seen as he departed Popular for medical school in 2021.

He briefly returned to screens in 2023 for the show’s Christmas special but hasn’t been back since.

Timothy has been a part of Call the Midwife since series two, and viewers have seen him grow from a boy into a young man.

Show boss Heidi Thomas recently revealed the future of the hit after 14 years on screens.

Despite pulling in millions of viewers for the Beeb, Heidi revealed fans constantly assume the show will eventually have to end. However, she reckons Call the Midwife can continue to run and run.

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It’s not just the BBC that’s shaking up its schedule either as ITV has also made changes to its typical schedule, with Coronation Street bumped off air for coverage of the Six Nations Championship.

In a further shakeup, Friday’s episode has been axed again as ITV dedicate almost three hours of their schedule to the FA Cup.

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