Canada changes start time of Christmas episode to show Matt Smith special

Tuesday, 17 December 2013 - Reported by John Bowman

Canadian TV channel Space will be broadcasting The Time of the Doctor an hour later than originally planned to make way for the documentary Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith, it has announced.

The Christmas episode will now go out at 9pm Eastern Time/6pm Pacific Time, with the retrospective being added to the schedule and taking the episode's original slot of 8pm (ET)/5pm (PT).

Space's revised Doctor Who programming over Christmas is now currently as follows (all times as ET):

Tuesday 24th December

6pm – The Snowmen
7.25pm – The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe
8.40pm – A Christmas Carol
10.10pm – The End of Time (Part 1)
11.40pm – The End of Time (Part 2)

Wednesday 25th December

1.25am – The Next Doctor
2.45am – Voyage of the Damned
4.30am – The Runaway Bride
6am – The Christmas Invasion
10.15am – The Day of the Doctor
Midday to 8pm – Series 7 from The Bells of Saint John to The Name of the Doctor
8pm – Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith
9pm – The Time of the Doctor
10.30pm - The Day of the Doctor

Thursday 26th December

12.10am – An Adventure in Space and Time
2am – Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith
3am – The Time of the Doctor
4.30am – The Day of the Doctor

UPDATE - 18th DECEMBER: Space has subsequently made more changes to its schedule, including moving the drama An Adventure In Space and Time from late night on 25th December to just into 26th December. The above blocks now show all the correct transmission times at present.

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