Next Doctor announcement in special 4am ABC broadcast

Tim Burrowes

August 3, 2013 10:59

The ABC is to carry 4am live coverage of the BBC’s announcement of the next person to play Doctor Who.

The actor will replace 11th Doctor Matt Smith who steps down after the sci-fi show’s 50th anniversary special later this year.

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor will air on ABC1 on Monday at 4am Eastern.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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8 COMMENTS

Anonymous 4 Aug 13

That looks awesome

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Good Moron 5 Aug 13

Doctor ***ing Who

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MSScBIopM8&feature=youtu.be&t=2m47s

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Paula 5 Aug 13

I’m curious what the ratings were (nationally/internationally)? I was up watching it, as were a few of my friends (that I knew of – we were texting/tweeting each other as it unfolded).

Very excited for Series 8 now 😀

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mumbrella 5 Aug 13

Hi Paula,

Because it aired after 2am, the ratings won’t be available until tomorrow morning.

I’d be interested to hear the experiences of anybody who watched it on iView this morning. I noticed that as of about 6am, it didn’t seem to be available.

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

Jessica 5 Aug 13

I tried watching it when I got up at around 6.30am in Brisbane and it wasn’t available – I’ll admit I was disappointed, especially as the BBC had been able to get it up on their iPlayer.

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Paula 5 Aug 13

Aah thanks Tim. Re: iView, the episode is up and running now – perhaps too many people were trying to watch it?

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Daniel G 5 Aug 13

It probably took a while for the ABC to upload the announcement to iView because of all that Vote Compass traffic… 🙂

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Raff 5 Aug 13

The news was spoilered online at midnight last night (when I googled to check what time the ABC was doing the live broadcast) by the likes of the Port Macquarie News and the Ballarat Courier! Due to a story from the UK that bookmaker William Hill had suspended betting on Capaldi due to odds hitting 5/6 – there had clearly been a leak.
Of course it was still only speculation, but it turned out I could have saved myself an hour of lost sleep this morning as the story proved to be entirely correct!
Disappointing to find out that way though I must admit. While I was happy with the choice I was disappointed that the story wasn’t wrong and that the cone of silence had failed on the BBC.

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