Miranda Hart returns to Call The Midwife

Miranda Hart is to return to Call The Midwife.

The comic's character 'Chummy' will return for this year's Christmas special and then the sixth series next year.

Hart first starred in the period drama in 2012, but missed some of the fourth and all of the fifth series to concentrate on other projects, such as the Hollywood comedy Spy, with Melissa McCarthy.

Her character, full name Camilla Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne, was written out of the show by being moved from Nonnatus House to a  mother and baby unit.

Programme-makers Neal Street Productions said: 'We’ve been bursting to share the news Chummy has left the mother and baby unit and is heading back to Poplar for series six!

'We’re thrilled to be once again featuring Miranda Hart and her fabulous blend of warmth, strength and vulnerability as Chummy gets to grips with the medical and social challenges of the 1960s.'

Some of the new series will be set in South Africa, under apartheid rule. The show already airs there, while its fifth season starts on America's PBS this Sunday.

Published: 6 Apr 2016