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"Call the Midwife has been renewed by the BBC. The hit show, which was BBC One&amp;#039;s biggest new drama series in over a decade, will return for a Christmas special in 2013 and a third series in 2014.   The second series is currently on air and averaging consolidated viewers of 10.6 million. Death in Paradise has also been officially recommissioned for a third series. Eight new episodes of the crime drama, which averaged 8 million consolidated viewers per episode in its second season, will be filmed on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.  Death in Paradise, written by Robert Thorogood and others, will return to BBC One next year. It will be executive produced by Tony Jordan and Belinda Campbell for Red Planet Pictures and Polly Hill for the BBC. BBC Controller of Drama Ben Stephenson said: &amp;quot;Drama and the BBC are inseparable - it is written through the BBC like a stick of rock. No other broadcaster in the world has drama so firmly in its DNA. &amp;quot;I want to make BBC drama a cultural institution - a touchstone for quality and modernity with all the excitement and glamour of a curtain going up.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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