Speaking at the National Television Awards<\/a> to RadioTimes.com<\/a>, the Dr Patrick Turner actor addressed the changes on the horizon for the franchise.<\/p>\n What to Read Next<\/p>\n “There is just so much change coming,” he said. “What you\u2019ve seen in Call the Midwife in the last year or two is people coming, whispers of change, it\u2019s kind of like, without saying any spoilers, it does get real. There\u2019s some stuff that is coming over the hill that is really real.”<\/p>\n McGann further promised more “classic Call the Midwife” moments in the new scripts, and that the cast were left “reeling” by the latest one.<\/p>\n Olly Courtney\/\/BBC<\/p>\n Related: Best streaming services<\/a><\/p>\n He added of the show’s future plans: “As you know, we\u2019ve done travelling. Things are going to be not the same as they were, but they\u2019re going to continue in a different vein, so who knows? We\u2019re the last to find out.”<\/p>\n The show’s upcoming Christmas special will be set in both Poplar and Hong Kong, while the movie will take place in 1972 as the characters head overseas. Meanwhile, the prequel show takes things back to World War Two.<\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n Elsewhere, speaking to press backstage at the NTAs after Call the Midwife triumphed in the Returning Drama category<\/a>, Fred Buckle actor Cliff Parisi praised the series.<\/p>\n “I’ve worked in television for 45 years \u2013 this is the best show I’ve ever worked on,” he admitted. “Most of the shows I’ve been in I was in for 10 years. This is the best show. It is the best writing, the best cast, the best production, and the loveliest bunch of people you can ever hope for.”<\/p>\n Call the Midwife airs on BBC One and streams on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n Read more Call the Midwife news on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n The new edition of Living Legends is here! Buy Gaga in newsagents or online<\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99.<\/p>\n Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Call the Midwife star Stephen McGann has teased “so much change coming” for the series with its upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2115,18259,2117,156,2116,111,139,69,18258,437],"class_list":["post-16215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-b66ad40f-252c-430f-93f3-218502f57fe8","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shorttitle-call-the-midwife-has-so-much-change-coming","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"stephen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/stephen-mcgann-georgie-glen-call-the-midwife-659d7b80c5056.jpg\" "\\"Stephen")
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