Television: Sunday-Night Scorecard

Call the Midwife: The central plot — an old pub owner dying, his first grandchild being … Read more »

Television: Sunday-Night Scorecard

Call the Midwife: A spina-bifida birth and post-partum depression may not sound cheery, but as usual … Read more »

Television: Sunday-Night Scorecard

Call the Midwife: A welcome return from this program about midwives in east London in the … Read more »

“Call The Midwife”: Grittier Storylines

The last time I dropped in on “Call the Midwife,” the poor-London series, the season was … Read more »

Yule Match-up: “Midwife” Vs. “Downton”?

Rivalries make life worth living. But I don’t think that this is a real rivalry, in … Read more »

Television: Sunday-Night Scorecard

Call the Midwife: The pathos was ladled on a bit thick this week. Still, love … Read more »

After “Downton”: The Next BBC/PBS Hit?

‘American viewers,’ claims the Telegraph, ‘couldn’t get enough of the class snobbery and grandeur of “Downton … Read more »