BBC issues update over future of Call The Midwife after reports it’s been cancelled

The BBC has hit out at reports that Call the Midwife has been cancelled, insisting the show is here to stay for “years to come”.

The period drama, launched in 2012, is one of the most-watched programmes in the UK and follows a group of midwives working in the East End of London in the 1950s, 1960 and 1970s.