Heaven Sent/ Hell Bent to have Extended Running Time

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Great news: Hell Bent, the Doctor Who Series 9 finale, will have a longer running time than usual – a full 20 minutes extra!

Yep, the episode will be 65 minutes long, airing on BBCOne on 5th December from 8pm to 9:05pm. Which is scarily close. Seriously, it seems Series 9 has just begun, and yet here we are with only three episodes left…

Heaven Sent, the penultimate episode – devoted entirely to Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor and Jami Reid-Quarrell as the mysterious villain – will also have en extended duration, clocking in at 55 minutes, screening between 8:05pm to 9pm on 28th November.

In total, then, the final tale of this series will be 2 hours in length! Wonderful stuff.

Last year’s finale, Death in Heaven, was an hour, so Hell Bent will be the longest episode of Doctor Who since Capaldi’s debut story, Deep Breath, which ran to 76 minutes.

And so we approach the finale with the usual excitement and dread as usual.

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