Name the Midwife movie and prequel collection introduced
The BBC has introduced plans to make a Name the Midwife movie in addition to a prequel TV collection set through the Second World Struggle.
It comes as filming begins for the fifteenth collection of the BBC One drama, which follows a bunch of nurse midwives working in London’s East Finish from the late Nineteen Fifties to the beginning of the Nineteen Seventies.
The movie will likely be set in an as-yet undisclosed abroad location in 1972, and can function characters from the present TV present.
In the meantime, the separate prequel collection will “delve into the deeper previous”, showrunner Heidi Thomas stated, providing a view of life in Poplar, east London, through the Blitz.
The brand new, separate movie and prequel initiatives will likely be written, created and produced by Thomas and govt producers Dame Pippa Harris and Ann Tricklebank, who will even oversee the manufacturing of collection 16 of the programme collectively.
The prequel collection will function “some acquainted (if a lot youthful) faces”, Thomas stated.
She stated that whereas she has “by no means run out of tales for our midwives”, she had discovered herself “craving to delve into the deeper previous” than the years 1957 to 1971 which have been coated by the present.
“The Blitz years within the East Finish had been extraordinary – stuffed with loss, togetherness, braveness and pleasure,” she stated.
In the meantime, the movie will see the “much-loved” common characters “take a brief break from Poplar and take a look at themselves in an unfamiliar panorama”, Ms Thomas stated.
The placement of the movie stays “high secret”, she added – however stated it might look “completely improbable” on the large display screen.
The primary collection of the present was initially impressed by the memoirs of Jennifer Price, who labored as a midwife and nurse locally in Poplar.
Dame Pippa stated the prequel collection and movie undertaking had been being made partly for a “new, youthful era who’ve additionally fallen in love with our characters and the challenges they face.”
The fifteenth collection will start with a two-part Christmas particular which is able to see characters travelling to Hong Kong on a mercy mission.
