I'm glad to see that fan reaction to last night's episode, "World War III", has been almost universally positive. Sadly this wasn't the case for the preceding part of this two part story, "Aliens of London". I found it difficult to understand what the problem was with "Aliens of London" but each to their own - personally I thoroughly enjoyed both episodes.

I'm also pleased to see that the overnight ratings, which came in this morning, show that this weeks episode scored strongly with 7.3 million viewers. As for ITVs new 'effort' in the same timeslot ("Celebrity Wrestling" - a programme that makes virtually anything else, even on ITV, look like the pinnacle of quality viewing) it bombed with 3.8 million viewers. This despite blanket coverage of this programme in the tabloid press and it's starting half an hour earlier than "Doctor Who" (although that was probably enough time for a great many people to decide their intelligence had been quite insulted enough and to reach for the remote control). Thankfully it seems that quality wins for once and perhaps the lesson is that it pays not to under-estimate your audience - take heed ITV and BBC!

Back to "Doctor Who": The end of "World War III" saw Rose packing her bags ready for a prolonged stay in the TARDIS and for me this episode coupled with the previous four felt very much like the end of the beginning of the series. Taken as a whole I think they can be seen very much as Rose's (and new viewers) introduction to the world of the Doctor - now the trip will really begin in earnest with next weeks episode "Dalek". Already it is being hailed in various Sunday newspapers as the best episode so far, and this from newspapers, like The Telegraph and The Observer, that have been fulsome in their praise of what's been broadcast so far. If "Dalek" really is the best so far I think we're in for one almighty treat at 7pm on Saturday the 30th of April (or, if you're in Canada, on Tuesday the 10th of May). Being a fan of the Daleks myself I really can't wait!

As for the site itself, I've been taking a little breather over the last week or two, hence the slow rate of updates and news stories, but now with batteries recharged I think we will be upping the rate of updates somewhat. First off the New Series Episode Guide will have some welcome addition over the next week or so. We will be continuing to add photographs from each broadcast episode and teasers for upcoming ones. In addition we will be adding some very nice (we think so anyway) DVD covers and disk labels for each broadcast new series episode courtesy of the very talented Ben Ditoy - thanks to Ben for allowing us to add these. I am also currently working on the radio Times listings, articles and covers so expect these very soon on both the Radio Times pages and as an addition to the New Series Episode Guide.

As for newspapers, we should, with a bit of help from a new member of the team here (introductions later), be adding all the newspaper coverage from November 2004 up to just before the new series UK premiere in March 2005. There's an awful lot of this though so bear with me on this whilst our new team member gets his bearings and works out what needs to be done.

That's it for now but please continue to post your comments here - it's always great to hear from people about the site and the series and thanks to everyone who has posted here in the past, I really enjoy reading your comments as I'm sure many other people do too.

Published @ 5:53 PM (UK local time)

You may think that I'm now going to go on about how moving the scene in episode 2 was between The Doctor and Jabe (you know, the one where she tells him she knows who he is). It was indeed moving - an excellent scene in an excellent episode but that's not what I refer to in the above title...

I'm actually talking about this site moving severs and apologies for posting this to those of you who aren't interested but feel free to comment on the wonderful episode 2 instead (and I'll bet episode 3 is even better - sticking my neck out there but we'll see very soon!).

Anyway, as you might have noticed we've had a poor service recently from our old hosts, Easynet (avoid them people, avoid them!) and I made the decision to move weeks ago as a result of some serious service problems. It took Easynet two to three weeks to respond to a request I sent them that our domain (cuttingsarchive.org.uk) be moved to a new host and they then went and did it a couple of days ago without even informing me so I had no time to make contingency plans. To add insult to injury they also messed up the move and this has led to the cuttingsarchive.org.uk being unavailable for some time (and it still is at the time of writing). As a result I have had to spend a lot of time and effort trying to get this sorted out and have been assisted extensively in this by our new, and excellent, hosts SiteHQ who have been brilliant - I can't recommend them highly enough so take note anyone looking for web hosting (and remember who to avoid - Easynet!).

Thankfully we had a couple of alternative domain names ready to use, cuttingsarchive.org and cuttingsarchive.com, so these have been quickly pressed into service and will remain as alternative addresses (URLs) for the site from now on. We hope to get the old address up and running as soon as possible but first we need to unpick the mess that Easynet (spit...) have made of things so bear with us.

Back to Doctor Who now, I thought "The End of the World" was excellent - perhaps the best Who I've seen since "Caves of Androzani" (that's another controversial comment I think!). I'm expecting this weeks (in the UK) episode, "The Unquiet Dead" to be even better and I'd love to hear what everyone thinks after it's broadcast.

In the meantime well done to Australia - the ABC Network has bought the series and apparently broadcasts may start in May.

Canada is now enjoying (or not in the case of "Mike from Canada"!) the new series and they're only a week or two behind the UK. Let's hope the ratings are good and CBC commit to more.

A series guide with photos and cuttings incorporated is well on the way to completion and would have been up already if this nonsense with Easynet hadn't come up so bear with me and I'll have it done very soon. (As always these things take longer than planned though - have you noticed that?!)

All the best to everyone and enjoy the new series.

Published @ 1:40 PM (UK local time)