Doctor Who confirmed for 6:45pm on 21st May
May 11th, 2011
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The new series of Doctor Who moves to its latest timeslot so far for its fifth episode, The Rebel Flesh.
The BBC Press Office has confirmed that the episode – Part I of Matthew Graham’s two-parter – will air on BBC One at 6:45pm on Saturday 21st May, with a running time of 45 minutes. In the story, a solar tsunami takes the TARDIS to a futuristic factory on Earth, where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid. Can the humans accept these “almost people” and prevent an all-out civil war?
So, are you happy that Doctor Who will be on later, or are you indifferent to its timeslot?
I’d rather it was earlier, as I’m in a different timezone…
I wish the BBC would just pick a timeslot and stick with it – are they professionals down there or not? I’m so glad I don’t live in the UK – I’d have said to heck with it and decided to wait for the DVD by now.
I feel lucky to be in the US. It’s always at 9 PM, never changes.
Well, if it were at 9pm, less people would be watching it. Moving around the schedule a bit is the price of being in family audience primetime. I understand in the US DW is marketed to an older audience, so they can put it in a steadier, later slot.
It depends on what the weather is like. Day of the Moon got low ratings with the start being 6pm so as its summer more or less everyone not literally but just everyone in general would be outside but also it got low ratings because the kids found the Silences terrifying and were too afraid to watch it so it also depends on the what the episode is like. For instance the last episode was light hearted and one for the kids to watch the next one looks pretty scary but not scary enough that kids won’t want to watch it. Thats why there have been different times for the episodes.
im sick of the time slot change every week one week its 6 then the next 6.45 one year it was even half 6 it mucks up my time scedual
@Patrick
It didn’t get low ratings. The overnights are not ratings.
Getting ever closer to 7pm slot it should have started at !!
Go on the BBC site and register a complaint about bad scheduling of Who. The more people who complain the better the chances that second half of season will be at a sensible time.
@Steve
oh ya i never that about complianing about the air time were abouts on the offical site do u do that at?