Time Of The Doctor airs in the UK at 19:30 on Xmas Day, and runs one hour, for those wondering.
Timeslot of the Doctor...
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It's 15 years since I was working in TV listings, but if it's anything like those days it'll be at 8pm by now, back to 6pm in another half hour, and so on and so on until the music stops and it ends up back where it started, having taken a year off the lives of everyone working on the TV listings... (the Radio Times comes out next Tuesday, so on the old '90s schedule of doing things that means this is only the first provisional schedule, and the final changes won't come through till Friday afternoon).
Schedules were exchanged today and BBC One have confirmed their entire Christmas Day schedule on Twitter.
5pm - Strictly
6:15pm - Call The Midwife
7:30pm - Doctor Who
8:30pm - Eastenders
So Who has been bumped up the schedule at the expense of Strictly & CTM.
Coro will be on ITV at the same time.
Corrie Vs DW... Hopefully with a different result than in the late 80s!
Any word on BBC America's schedule? I don't suppose there will be another simulcast?
Probably the usual 8pm or 9pm Eastern and then repeat 3 hours later (West Coast gets at same time 5pm or 6pm Western time)
9 Eastern/8 Central.
It's on the top right corner of the BBC America Dr Who homepage
It's on the top right corner of the BBC America Dr Who homepage
Oh good, I was worried they'd put it on at some ridiculous time like 1800. Should have plenty of time to get home from work and sit down for dinner.
Damn, I won't be able to see it until 2014.
And later in the evening Downton vs East Enders. FIGHT!
Given the Snowman was on quite early last year, does this suggest The Time of the Doctor might be a little darker?
There's a new BBC1 Controller (though the old one has moved up, so he's her boss), so different strategy. Or they just decided that the strategy of starting the Xmas Day schedule with Who and hoping its audience would stay didn't work, and it's better to go back to having it as a mid-evening boost.
Also, ITV are premiering Deathly Hallows Part 2 in the afternoon/early evening, AIUI, and there's something of an audience crossover between those, so they won't want to clash.
I thought it was HP, with the premiere...
