'Call The Midwife' Season 10 U.S. Premiere Officially Confirmed (Updated)

After months of waiting, Call The Midwife's producers have announced the show officially has a release date stateside on PBS. Even better, it's a little earlier than initially anticipated.

Though Call The Midwife's decade anniversary season on the air was delayed due to pandemic lockdown in 2020, the series has managed to keep a presence on the PBS schedule. For instance, the yearly Christmas Special, one of the few instances where a show comes over day-and-date to the U.S. for PBS, arrived on time for the holidays this past year. And fans have been aware that the series aired over on the BBC this past spring. But when it came to when PBS viewers would get a start date, all viewers knew was "Fall" and the vague suggestion of an October, with no actual day set in stone.

But with both Grantchester and Baptiste having set arrival dates in October, it seemed like that might be a crowded month of premieres. And initially it seemed like Call The Midwife's return had been pushed up, with a tweet from the official account announcing a September return. That would have fit with its usual schedule in the spring, where Call the Midwife usually arrives a week ahead of the Masterpiece premiere block, paving the way in the 8 p.m. hour for viewers to settle in for a nice evening of British programming.

But a new press release puts the show's arrival as Oct. 3, 2021, the same day as Grantchester, making a full evening of all new shows.