<p>Is anybody else watching this show? I’ve watched the first three episodes and am hooked. While watching, I find myself wishing the episode wouldn’t end. I sense a Dowton Abbey-like obesseion coming on!</p>
<p>^^^^^sounds interesting.</p>
<p>Speaking of Downton Abbey, when will season 3 air?</p>
<p>I am addicted to this too, happened to catch it a couple of weeks ago and was so happy to run across it again last night. Now I will have to put it on my calendar so I won’t miss an episode.</p>
<p>Are you watching this from the PBS website?</p>
<p>I am loving it, too. </p>
<p>I’m also watching the “new” Upstairs Downstairs.</p>
<p>DA starts again in January.</p>
<p>I’m watching it. It’s pretty good although I struggle with some of the accents. From decades of watching PBS I can understand most British accents pretty well. And I have no trouble at all with characters who speak in educated Oxbridge/BBC accents. But “Midwife” often has east-end characters mumbling something that can be hard to catch, especially with the mood music track laid over the top of the dialogue.</p>
<p>I saw some of them. They’re ‘okay’ but nothing worth skipping ‘The Amazing Race’ for.</p>
<p>fendrock - yes, on PBS.</p>
<p>emilybee, I’m watching Upstairs,Downstairs too,</p>
<p>I have avoided watching it, because i already watch DA and Doc Martin. other than sports I practically only watch PBS.</p>
<p>I’m watching too… I think it’s good and of course based on actual memoirs. What struck me right away was about how many children and pregnancies these women endured as birth control was not easily obtainable … and how they smoked not only during their pregnancy but right in the clinic waiting for their appointments.</p>
<p>I’m watching–loved the book and I think the episodes have been quite well done. DH, however, leaves the room when the women in labor start screaming…</p>
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I hit the mute button for that.</p>
<p>The good parts of Call the Midwife outweigh the silly plots. The portraits of the lives of the poor are good and there is something viscerally moving about babies being born, especially when there are problems to solve. You always root for new life.</p>
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<p>My mother smoked like a chimney through five pregnancies. I was the smallest baby at 8 lbs., and all of us were vigorous, healthy babies. Go figure.</p>
<p>The smoking didn’t work out too well for HER (multiple strokes starting at age 48), but somehow my sibs and I were all healthy in spite of it.</p>
<p>I missed last night, but our local station is re-airing it tonight at 1:00, which is why I am still awake!</p>
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<p>So what’s wrong with that? Watching only PBS except for some sports describes my viewing habits perfectly.</p>
<p>Well, courier, I think I watch too much already.</p>
<p>I set the DVR to record the whole series it so I can watch it anytime. Did the same for Upstairs,Downstairs. </p>
<p>At the end of Sunday night’s Call the Midwife episode, there was a preview for DA. Looks like Shirley McClaine and Maggie Smith will be going at each other from the get go. I don’t think a date for the first show was mentioned or maybe I just missed it.</p>
<p>Ooops, just saw on the DA thread that it starts in January.</p>
<p>Watched the first episode last night and I’m hooked.</p>