The broadcaster was quick to dispel the rumours, however, confirming that viewers could look forward to "two Christmas specials, a new series, a film and prequel series, before a 16th series in due course. Call the Midwife isn’t going anywhere".
During its impressive 13-year run, the show has already had to adapt to explore advances in NHS care and changes in attitudes to parenthood, relationships and the roles of nuns and midwives across the various decades, but if the show wades further into the 1970s, there will more sizeable developments on the cards, which could alter the tone of the show and subsequently turn it into something else entirely.
Should the now-confirmed 16th season, which will presumably be set in 1972 or 1973, be the final goodbye to the midwives at Nonnatus House?
And as it moves towards later decades, when many more audience members would have been alive, it may feel less like a warm period drama and more like Casualty, which confusingly now has ex-Call the Midwife star Olly Rix among its cast.
More births moved to hospitals, and home births and newer approaches such as water births tended to be overseen by midwives based at big institutions, rather than cosy local practices.
But there are core characters, including Jenny Agutter’s adored Sister Julienne, Stephen McGann’s Patrick Turner, Helen George’s Trixie and Laura Main’s Shelagh, who are as much of the Poplar landscape as Fred and Violet’s shop, but who can’t be expected to remain in their medical jobs forever.
And while nuns are nuns for life, Sister Julienne would probably love to hang up her forceps, put her accounting book away, and finally step down as midwife and sister-in-charge at Nonnatus House.
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But while there is no shortage of viewers desperate for the show to continue for many more seasons, the BBC and Thomas owe it to Call the Midwife to stop sooner rather than later.
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