Programming Change for Discovery’s Iditarod

The Discovery Channel announced last week that “Toughest Race on Earth: Iditarod” is moving to Fridays at 8pm ET/PT starting Tomorrow – Friday, November 7. Iditarod will be paired with a new season of “Survivorman”…should be a great opportunity for more people to catch the race!

For a short summary of tomorrow’s episode, see below – we’ll also be back tomorrow evening with a re-cap, and a preview of next week’s show.  Make sure you don’t miss this opportunity to catch all the inside action of the Iditarod as over the next 3 weeks we see what it took to become 2008’s champion.

Friday, November 7th
With most teams now in their 24-hour break, Lance Mackey and Jeff King make up for time lost. Mackey is the first to Checkpoint: Ruby, leaving King both confused and frustrated. King devises a plan to win the race: He will let the returning champ lead and thus expend precious energy breaking trail. Rookie Darin Nelson becomes the latest musher to withdraw from the race — a sick dog team breaks his will to continue, and he chooses to scratch. Meanwhile the Buser family separates to allow former champion, Martin, a shot at the gold. It’s now a race to the coast along the mighty Yukon.