Why-oh-why do the BBC continue to mess around with the timeslot for Doctor Who?

It has actually made me quite angry, as I keep missing the programme when it is broadcast on a Saturday evening.

Earlier today I was sitting in Starbucks with friends. Realising the time was getting on a bit, I decided it was time to leave, partly because I knew Doctor Who was on. I made it home literally minutes before seven only to realise Who had been on for twenty minutes already!

I hadn’t forgotten the announcement after last week’s episode, it simply didn’t compute until it was too late. So now I have to wait until tomorrow to see this week’s episode of Doctor Who.

Why do they do it? It’s infuriating that they shift it about every week. What is wrong with the seven o’clock timeslot? Why show it early when they know it looses viewers at such times of the early evening.

They did similar things with Torchwood’s last series. It was supposed to be broadcast on BBC Two since they poached it from BBC Three after series one. But mid-season they decided to drop the repeat on BBC Three and instead broadcast it in BBC Three first. So there I was watching the BBC Three repeats (they were broadcast at a more managable time for me), only to realise that it suddenly skipped an episode. So I had to use the rubbish quality BBC iPlayer.

Back to Who: I know it’s a family show, and they will undoubtedly justify their ridiculous ratification of the Doctor Who timeslot by simply saying “it’s still accessible to kids, and that’s what matters most”.

It was no doubt a whole afternoon of sports (how very diverse~) that caused me to miss my favourite television programme of the moment.

I don’t watch a lot of TV, but the TV I do watch, I’d quite like to watch in some sort of uniform routine.

That’s my rant over, but was it so pointless? I don’t know.