BAFTA has announced the winners of tonight’s British Academy Television Craft Awards, hosted by Stephen Mangan at The Brewery, in the City of London. Presenters included Russell Tovey, Dawn O’Porter, Anne Reid, James Martin, Meera Syal and Mary Beard.

London 2012 triumphed on the night with three Awards. The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isle Of Wonder won Director: Multi-Camera sponsored by The Farm LA, London 2012 Olympic Games: Super Saturday picked up the Award in the Sound: Factual category and Channel 4 Paralympics was awarded for Digital Creativity sponsored by Brightcove.

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Doctor Who fans are in for a treat this week as Saturday’s episode is set to feature two rather famous faces!

Hide, the first ever episode of the hit BBC family sci-fi entertainment show to be penned by Luthor writer Neil Cross, is based on ghosts and is said to be the shows scariest episode to date.
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NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED: RADIO TIMES AUDIENCE AWARD – SEE FULL LIST & DETAILS!

Call the Midwife, Game of Thrones, The Great British Bake Off, Homeland, Olympic Games Opening Ceremony and Strictly Come Dancing all face the Public Vote at this year’s Arqiva British Academy Television Awards

London, 2 April 2013: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) today announced the shortlist of nominated programmes for this year’s Radio Times Audience Award, the only award voted for by the British public at the upcoming Arqiva British Academy Television Awards on Sunday 12 May, 2013.

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So we come to an end of the second successful series of Call the Midwife which to me has been a lot darker than its predecessor. We’ve seen domestic violence, backstreet abortion and disabled children while the lack of Miranda Hart’s Chummy has meant a cutback on comedy subplots. Though Chummy returned last week her scenes were kept to a minimum but we knew that her pregnancy would take centre stage in this final episode.

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Chummy and PC Noakes with the support of all their friends prepare for the arrival of their new baby with somewhat of a nervous excitement, whilst Fred is in extremely high spirits when Dolly, his pregnant daughter, and her young son Anthony come round to stay with him.

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The one thing I have enjoyed about this series of Call the Midwife is that it has had a much more serious tone thanks in part to the absence of Miranda Hart as Chummy whose comic interludes never really did anything for me. Knowing that the character would return this week filled me with trepidation as I thought this episode would suffer as a result thankfully though Hart’s appearances were kept to a minimum allowing the other stories to thrive.

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District nursing rounds carried out by Cynthia find her having to administer insulin daily to diabetic John Lacey, a nasty bully who constantly undermines and belittles his wife Annie. With moral support from Cynthia and a visit from her son Bob, Annie begins to gain enough confidence to turn her life around.

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Call The Midwife star, Miranda Hart, has revealed that she is thoroughly thrilled that her character, Chummy Cholmodeley-Browne – now Mrs Noakes, is expecting a baby on the hit BBC drama.

As we reported earlier this week how, when Chummy and her new husband PC Noakes (Ben Caplin) return from missionary work this weekend, the larger than life midwife will be sporting a baby bump of her own.

This surprise storyline was meant to have been kept under-wraps but Miranda, who is also the star of her own comedy show Miranda, was so excited she has found it hard to keep the details to herself.
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A real life Midwife has criticised Channel 4′s hit show One Born Every Minute, insisting that it does nothing but scare expectant mothers and fathers.

The medical professional who spends her days delivering babies and looking after new mums, insists that it isn’t a good thing to frighten those approaching such a life changing experience and insisted that the series isn’t ‘done very well.’

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Miranda Hart will soon be making her way back to hit BBC One drama Call The Midwife, it has been confirmed.

Posh but funny Chummy has supposedly been absent from the hospital for a number of episodes, because she accompanied her policeman husband Peter on a working trip to to Sierra Leone.

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For the majority of us this series of Call the Midwife has been all about the brewing attraction between Dr Turner and Sister Bernadette as well as the latter’s questioning of her faith. This slow-burning storyline really started during the Christmas special and built up to last week’s scene in which he kissed her hand before she pulled away. This week sees a TB epidemic hit Poplar which draws the two together once again as they fight to have a new X-Ray machine bought to their area.

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Over the past few weeks in my Call the Midwife reviews I’ve commented on how much better I think the series has got and that continues tonight in an extremely gritty episode focusing on a mum of eight played by Sharon Small. Some of you have also picked up on the fact that I’m occasionally over-critical of the programme however at the end of tonight’s instalment I had to admit that I had formed an emotional attachment to at least a few of the characters.

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The hit BBC period drama, Call The Midwife, has been recommissioned for a third series, despite the fact that there are not enough of Jennifer Worth’s original stories to fill it!

Call The Midwife, which has just begun airing its second series on BBC, has proved to be one of the Corporation’s biggest dramas since it first aired on our BBC screens last year.
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Last week I claimed that Miranda Hart’s temporary absence had caused a rise in quality in the new series of Call the Midwife and I still stick by that theory despite some of you being very fond of Chummy. A case in point is this week’s episode in which Chummy’s replacement, medical orderly Jane Sutton, is given more prominence as we learn why this woman is afraid to speak to people and how she came to be appointed in the first place. The shame is that Jane’s storyline is treated like the subplot as Jenny Lee is back on her rounds and delivering babies and home truths to the women of Poplar.

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There’s potentially bad news for fans of Call the Midwife as it’s been reported that Miranda Hart, who of course plays the role of posh medic Chummy, may have to be written out of series four.

That’s because the filming schedule for new series would clash with her upcoming comedy tour in 2014.

A show insider told the Daily Mirror, “She’ll be fine for filming this year but there is a huge question mark hanging over anything beyond that.

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