Doctor Who series seem to start in the Easter holidays, so March for the start of the next one, I imagine.
I watched the first episode. It was O.K. Nothing special, really, but I'll watch a few more to give it a chance to get going. I liked the basic concept, and hope the uninspiring tone is due to too much exposition (they should have left revealing his past until later on) or the network bosses playing it too safe and wanting to avoid anything in the premiere episode that was a risk. Sometimes this can happen- case in point: Firefly's dull The Train Job., which replaced the real pilot. Maybe there's something good waiting for us down the line.
The Deus ex machina ending really bothered me, though. You have a character who has been trying to create a device all his life, seems to still be working on the basic theory after he is dead, and suddenly he can build it just when it is needed.