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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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.
In the run up to the much-anticipated 50th anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, Reece Shearsmith has been announced as joining the cast of the 2 hour BBC2 biopic telling the story of how the show became, An Adventure In Space And Time.
Doctor Who has been entertaining families across the UK for nearly half a century, and to mark this magnificent occasion its writer, Mark Gatiss has penned a special 2-hour docu-film bringing the shows creation to life.
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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.
In last week’s Call the Midwife we saw Miranda Hart temporarily depart the show meaning Chummy took all of her hilarious comedy sequences with her. This week’s episode of Call the Midwife is devoid of all the usual slapstick and instead survives on character-driven plots and that’s perhaps why I personally feel it is the strongest episode of the series so far.
It’s been revealed today that Call the Midwife star Jessica Raine and Harry Potter and Mount Pleasant star David Bradley are to join Bourne Supremacy star Brian Cox in filming a Doctor Who special entitled, An Adventure in Time and Space.
Jessica – who plays Jenny Lee in Call the Midwife – will play the role of producer Verity Lambert in the feature length spin-off, while David will play the part of the first Doctor, William Hartnell.
Speaking to the Mirror, David said of his role, “I first heard about this role from Mark while watching the Diamond Jubilee flotilla from the roof of the National Theatre.
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After revealing that they found it hard to find enough babies young enough when filming the first series of Call The Midwife, show bosses have now found themselves inundate with possible applicants!
Heidi Thomas, who wrote the hit series based on the memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, says she has been “bombarded” with new and pregnant mums, all wanting to be part of the action since the show’s popularity sky rocketed with 10.1 million viewers tuning in to watch Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) and her colleagues returned to our screens on Sunday.
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Last year, a programme about midwives in the 1950s was set to air on BBC1 with very little fanfare and with a lead actress in Jessica Raine, that nobody had ever heard of. Somehow, though Call the Midwife went on to become the BBC’s biggest drama hit in years, thanks maybe to the squalid setting of East End London that was miles away from the stuffy stately homes of Downton Abbey, or maybe it was due to the supporting cast of Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris and Miranda Hart who added some much needed weight to proceedings. Whatever it was, people really took to the programme, and after a thoroughly successful festive special, which was the second most watched programme on Christmas Day after Eastenders, it’s back for a full second series containing all of the elements that made last year’s series such a hit.
At the start of the new episode, we find Raine’s Jenny Lee celebrating a birthday along with her fellow nurses and the nuns in whose house they live and work from. Thankfully the young nurses don’t have to stick around with the nuns all night and glam themselves out for a night on the town, which involves a trip to the cinema to see South Pacific. The fun can’t last for long though as Jenny has to find her ’cause of the week’ who is usually someone who is having an awful time until they meet the lovely nurse who changes things around for them… Read more & comment »
Call The Midwife star, Jessica Raine, is due to star in an episode of Doctor Who!
Raine, who plays Jenny Lee in the hit BBC drama, has already filmed her role in the epic BBC sci-fi family drama alongside the Time Lord, Matt Smith, will play a character called Emma Grayling, and has described the experience as “magical”.
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Hit drama Call the Midwife returns to BBC1 for a second series on Sunday, January 20 at 8pm, and ahead of it, Jessica Raine has been talking about the drama and what lies ahead for her character Jenny Lee.
Speaking to TV&Satellite Week magazine, Jessica began by explaining that series two will see a more confident Jenny.
She said, “She has grown in confidence and has found her feet more in Nonnatus House.
“She is more comfortable about delivering babies now as well, but she still comes up against some really shocking social problems in the community which make her feel quite frustrated at how much she can help and she gets angrier at the unfairness…” Read more & comment »
Call the Midwife star Jessica Raine is reportedly to star in a new episode of Doctor Who entitled, The Phantom Hex.
The news comes from Metro who report that Jessica – who plays the role of Jenny Lee in Call the Midwife and who has also starred in Garrow’s Law and Robin Hood – listed on her CV a role in the hit BBC sci-fi series, and as she hasn’t as yet starred in any, the entry on her resume evidently refers to an as yet unseen installment of the Time Lord’s adventures.
It appears that her CV was posted at showbiz agency Gordon & French’s website, and she states that her character in Doctor Who was called Emma Grayling.
The episode Phantoms of the Hex was directed by Jamie Payne, who worked on both Primeval and Call The Midwife… Read more & comment »
As fans of hit BBC drama Call the Midwife will know, Jessica Raine played the lead role of midwife Jenny, and in an interview with Radio Times, Jessica has revealed that she felt “very guilty” about making some of her tiny co-stars cry.
She said, “I feel very guilty about the way we treated some of the babies on the set.
“They were always sleepy and in the scenes where they had just been born we needed them to cry so I had to blow on their face – I felt evil!”
However, Jessica – who starred alongside Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris and Miranda Hart – added that she feels Jenny is “the first rounded character” she has ever played on TV.
But she added, “I get a bit annoyed when people describe it as cosy. There are really grisly stories and though it’s wrapped in this 1950s nostalgia it’s more than that…” Read more & comment »
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