Yahoo News Call the Midwife is back and has fans in tears
After a hit Christmas special, Call the Midwife returned to our screens tonight for its seventh season.
Few will have predicted just how popular the show would be when it first appeared back in 2012, but it wins over 10 million viewers an episode and is much more than just cosy Sunday night viewing.
From a glance at Twitter, it looks like those of you who tuned in today (January 21) really enoyed it, and were in floods of tears by the end.
Much of the attention before the episode aired was on the new midwife Lucille Anderson, the show's first black midwife, played by Leonie Elliot.
It's fair to say that Lucille Anderson made a great first impression and you were all won over
Loved the way they introduced the nurses that came from the West Indies and kept our NHS going. It was great to have a nod to Taunton as the hospital they recently did a documentary on how the nurses from the West Indies trained at the hospital @MusgrovePark #callthemidwife
- Abigail Thorne (@thorne_abigail) January 21, 2018
My nan was a nurse in the #60s and used to talk about West Indies nurses arriving in Taunton and Somerset to undertake nursing duties. #Taunton mentioned in @CallTheMidwife1 tonight. #CallTheMidwife History at its truth.
- Sepsis Nurse (@MerrellJames) January 21, 2018
The first Black nurse in Nonnatus House, *and* a former librarian? I think it's fair to say I love Sister Lucille Anderson. #CallTheMidwife
- Sister Outrider (@ClaireShrugged) January 21, 2018
