BBC Fans of The Musketeers were left angry over scheduling

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The period drama, which is based on the works of Alexandre Dumas, is currently airing its third and final series this year but has been faced with shifting air times. Episode four of the 10-part series is going to be hitting screens in two weeks on a Monday night after previously airing on Saturdays. After the news of the delayed episode was announced, many dedicated fans took to social media to bemoan the fortnight’s wait for the next episode. “I am SO spitting feathers! I need @BBCOne scheduler to use as a punchbag, preferably the one messing with #Musketeers #Idiot (stamps feet),” said one disgruntled person wrote on Twitter.

BBC The cast of BBC's The Musketeers

Another added: “Outstanding series, great acting, riveting,sold massively abroad-well done BBC, scheduling gone to pot again and no new series #musketeers.” “See it's schedule roulette for #Musketeers fans as @BBCOne changes air day and time again. Half the fun is figuring out when it's next on,” someone else posted on the micro-blogging site. But it wasn’t all bad, there was also praise for the programme.

BBC The show has been subject to changing air times

See it's schedule roulette for #Musketeers fans as @BBCOne changes air day and time again The Musketeers fan

One member of the audience lauded the episode: “@HayleyNebauer @BBCOne Amazing costumes on #Musketeers ep2 tonight. I loved the Queens dress.” “Today's #Musketeers episode was AMAZING! Can't wait for more @BBCOne,” said another enthusiastically. This is not the first time the series has been dogged with changing scheduling problems, earlier this year it was revealed that some scenes had to be cut because they were not pre-watershed friendly.

BBC This is the final series of The Musketeers

The Musketeers executive producer Jessica Pope said that a scene featuring a hand being cut off had to be removed from the episode after the episode was due to air at 8.30pm. “It’s down to the pre-watershed rules on what you can and can’t show. It was quite an extreme scene of the hand being cut off," Pope explained, referring to one of the major scenes that have been left on the floor of the cutting room,” she explained. "We had to cut the scene where Grimaud chopped the General’s hand off," writer Simon Allen explained.

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