The One Show has been cancelled by the BBC this evening to air a David Attenborough documentary in its place.
BBC One viewers were shocked to discover that Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough was placed in the popular evening show’s slot on Friday night.
The David Attenborough documentary started at 6.30pm on BBC One and as a result The One Show was pulled from its normal 7pm slot.
The Alex Jones fronted programme is set to return to BBC screens on Wednesday April, 20 following the Easter weekend.
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough sees the Tyrannosaurus Rex get “more rounded treatment” after historically being thought of as a fearful villain of the prehistoric age.
In the 90-minute special Sir David showcases the findings of a team of palaeontologists, re-examining the final moments before the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago.
Sir David Attenborough said that new evidence about the dinosaurs' last day on Earth has been uncovered while filming his new BBC documentary.
An asteroid - known as Chicxulub - hit the planet around 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs and now he fossil of one of the dinosaurs believed to have been killed by the giant comet has been uncovered.
The preserved leg of a dinosaur was discovered while the natural historian, 95, and his crew explored the Tanis fossil site in North Dakota.
They were there for three years to film Dinosaurs: The Final Day, which includes an investigation into the devastating asteroid.
A fragment of the meteor's rock has been found preserved within part of a fish fossil at the dig site.
Attenborough and his team were granted exclusive access, and he said: "The film is about the last day the dinosaurs lived on Earth - and the minute by minute detail of that day.
"We tend to think that the end of a (geological) period extends over decades, if not centuries, and actually the end of a period may vary around the world in different areas."
He however said that what's "remarkable" about the subject is that "it was one astonishingly huge event that was worldwide."
The One Show will return to BBC One screens next week.
