Davies: BBC has 'cocked up' 'Who' time

Doctor Who will lose 1.5m viewers per show because of BBC One's decision to move it from 7pm to 6.20pm, according to executive producer Russell T Davies.

The drama will take up the new slot when it returns on April 5 to allow I'd Do Anything to air at 7.10pm.

Davies said he was worried because the series is the last full run of Who before 2010. Next year there will be three specials.

"At 6.20pm, it'll get 1.5m less viewers than it already has," he said, speaking at a Broadcast event in London. "I've told them this, but they won't shift at all. You need to maintain slots and they've gone and cocked it up now. Maybe they're right, but I think they're wrong."

The producer, who was behind the revival of the show, also confessed to rewriting others' scripts if he did not like them. He said: "I'll rewrite 100% if I have to. With Steven Moffat's scripts, I don't touch a word, but anyone else's I do...

"We're not there to experiment and we're not there to let someone fail. You've got to do everything you can to make it brilliant every week."

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