The final episode of Call the Midwife attracted 9.2 million viewers, according to initial overnight figures.
She's up against Maggie Smith (Downtown Abbey), Miranda Hart (Call The Midwife) and Monica Dolan (Appropriate Adult).
We look back on midwifery in the 1950s with nostalgia today in dramas such as Call the Midwife.
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Call the Midwife actress Jessica Raine and Scotland's Brian Cox will also appear in the BBC Two commission.
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Following in October, Call the Midwife star Jessica Raine and Linda Bassett are to star in Arnold Wesker's Roots.
"Call the Midwife... manages to be both hard-hitting and emotional, gritty and warm, " said BBC One controller Danny Cohen.
The special was announced as part of the BBC's latest round of drama commissions, which will also see Call The Midwife return in 2014.
The Call The Midwife star was told about her first challenge live on Radio 2 on Monday morning by breakfast show host Chris Evans.
Other complaints over the event - which drew a peak audience of 12.2 million people - involved another sketch involving the popular series Call The Midwife.
The 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and popular drama Call the Midwife are among six programmes vying to take the Radio Times audience title at this year's Bafta Television Awards.
Call the Midwife star Miranda Hart will talk about her work in comedy and drama, with fellow actors Robert Lindsay, Rupert Everett and Hugh Dennis also making festival appearances.
Call The Midwife drew its smallest audience since launching earlier this year, and Doctor Who, with 7.6 million viewers, had an average audience of 1.3 million fewer than in Christmas 2011.
Coronation Street was seen by an average audience of 8.6 million viewers, while Upstair Downstairs - which returned for a new series on BBC One straight after Call The Midwife - attracted 6.5 million people.
Last night, Call the Midwife was moved half an hour later than usual to avoid clashing with Coronation Street on ITV1, which was moved from its mid-week slot due to a Uefa Europa League football match.
Women were most likely to say they had the kind of facilities and support for the type of birth they wanted if they did not give birth in hospital, leading the NCT to renew its call for all women to have the choice of a home birth and access to a midwife-led unit.
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