CALL The Midwife boss Heidi Thomas admits she cried watching the Christmas Special and warns fans they will sob too.
The BBC show is a staple of the festive TV calendar every year, and despite the coronavirus pandemic, the show has been able to produce another Christmas Special for 2020.
The cast and crew had to film under new health and safety regulations, but despite the change in circumstances on set, Heidi has revealed how thrilled she is with the end result.
She wrote on the show’s official Facebook page: “Filming with COVID restrictions in place has been interesting, and successful.
“In some ways we had a head start, as when you have as many newborn babies on set as we do, you are never more than six inches from a bottle of sanitiser!
“The new rules have become second nature, and all has gone well. I actually cried when I saw the finished result – you simply can’t tell it was filmed under such unusual conditions, and that is as it ought to be.”
Heidi added that the Christmas episode will still be a nod to the challenges we have all faced this year, despite being set in 1965.
She said: “Above all else, this year’s Christmas special is a story about our hopes, our fears, our need to be together, and what can happen when our dreams come true. You will cry a little, but end up smiling.
“I can’t think of a better metaphor than that for 2020.”
Earlier this month, fans were given their first glimpse at the Christmas episode with a trailer.
The short clips shows Nurse Trixie Franklin (Helen George) rushing down the stairs to collect the mail and here hotly anticipated annual Christmas letter from her godmother – complete with her expected dress allowance.
But things have clearly not gone to plan as Trixie’s face drops while reading the Portofino postmarked letter, and she is asked if she’s received bad news.
That’s when Trixie drops the bombshell, that her ‘beloved’ godmother has not sent her a dress allowance at all this year.
“She’s paid for me to join a marriage bureau,” a distraught Trixie replies, “So that I don’t end up and I quote, ‘on the shelf’.”
Call The Midwife will air on Christmas Day on BBC One.
