Drama

A new set of midwife pupils arrives in Poplar and one of them is immediately thrust into danger, while the other midwives aid a mother with cerebral palsy. 

A fifth season of the detective show is on its way, but it will lose one of its titular characters and thus be renamed simply Miss Scarlet.

The beloved show has been renewed for two more seasons, and Callum Woodhouse will return as Tristan in season 5.

James tries to make his way home from training at Christmas to welcome a new son, in the season finale. 

The team reunites for a final episode that they hope might lead to another series, but there are still complications with which Barbara must wrestle. 

Helen moves home to help on the family farm but her father wants to coddle her as she's pregnant. Mrs. Hall and Siegfried wrestle with an impending departure. 

Eliza sets to helping a friend – and saving her business – when Nash becomes wanted in connection with a murder. 

Barbara is suspended from her show and forced to stay at home out of sight of the press. The team tries to keep producing the show without her, to their dismay. 

James finally has to leave for the air force, and set about preparing Skeldale for his absence and reckoning with leaving Helen and their coming child behind.

Eliza and Nash continue to clash in their approaches to running the business while they investigate an explosion at a newfangled telephone company.

Mr Bates vs The Post Office dramatizes a real-life miscarriage of justice in the United Kingdom, and has generated public outrage on behalf of its victims.

Barbara and Diane both continue to find more success, although perhaps their news isn't as good as they like. And Barbara endangers her career by accident, thanks to her relationship with Clive. 

As Richard frustrates James by simultaneously being a know-it-all and clueless, James worries that he has endangered Helen and their unborn child. 

William convalesces at Eliza's house as she tries to solve a robbery with Nash, lest their gangster client be unhappy with their work.

Barbara's career begins to take off as her father suffers from ill health. She finds a friend in a journalist and a lover in a member of the team working on her sitcom.