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):
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.
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