Peter Capaldi has had some words to say about Doctor Who’s slot in the Saturday night TV schedules – with episodes sometimes finishing as late as 9.15 – so it competes against The X-Factor and doesn’t get in the way of Strictly Come Dancing.
In many ways, this later time slot feels like a shift away from everything we’ve taken for granted these past ten years.
When Russell T Davies resurrected the show in 2005, his insistence that it should be prime time Saturday evening television was one of the key factors in its roaring success.
It was Doctor Who the way people always remembered it, before the 1983 change to a midweek slot that,… Read the full story