At the end of last night’s epsi­ode of Dr Who, fans were left with a series of cliff­hangers which had them on the edge of their seats (not least in my house!).

How­ever, we were all excited to be told that at 1pm today there would be a spe­cial trailer for the series finale — so I expect that there were a lot of fans like me wait­ing patiently for the end of the Polit­ics Show to get a glimpse of what is coming.

Noth­ing. Not even a faint sound of drums. Nada.

Seems like the folks at the Beeb had a little senior moment and the trailer never aired.

Clever mar­ket­ing tool to boost view­ing fig­ures for Sunday after­noons or just a bit of a cock-up? You decide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/news/latest/080628_news_01

Cre­ated quite a few unhappy fans I would guess …

*UPDATE* Looks like the BBC are revi­sion­ist, as they’ve taken down the apo­logy for not show­ing the trailer and just say “if you missed it”! Any­way, the trailer is now online, enjoy.