Okay, let's knock this on the head!

Sources. Contacts. "Deep theoats". Denials. Rumours. Hints. Knowing winks.

Ever since a DOCTOR WHO fan climbed from the primeval slime (of his bed), managing to stand erect on his own two feet (enveloped in TARDIS carpet slippers) he has focused on exercising his "hunter-gatherer" need for behind-the-scenes tidbits.

DOCTOR WHO fanzine Editors, whether in print or online, have aimed to bring something exclusive to their respective organ, negotiating with production staff and developing subservient relationships with BBC staff at TV Centre.

EOH is not any different

We have Sources, contacts and people who are just plain gossips. And we exploit them. WHO whores, one and all. It's just a TV show, after all, not life-or-death.

So here's the deal. Some information that is telephoned or emailed (and occasionally a brown envelope with photocopies of "monster" sketches has even dropped onto the doormat) is as accurate as a detailed strand of DNA but some is not (due to message manipulation evident in STATE OF DECAY).

If it's correct, EOH doesn't tend to boast and when it is downright inaccurate we don't tend to placate ourselves with prefix or suffices of "Perhaps,..." or "We think..." or "..?".

That should change. EOH will boast, and EOH will apologise.

So continue to log-on to EOH, or not. Your choice.

If you don't like Source information that eventually is wrong or, even, discredited, then don't log-on; delete the site from your list of Favourites. Simple.

So, let's get something out of the way.

SERIES 2 LAUNCH DATE

SERIES 2 launch date will be announced shortly. BBC PLANNING designated the DATE back in October 2005, and was 25 March 2006. This was changed in November. The new date (15 April 2006) was leaked to EOH by a BBC TV employee, and we published this date in January. Again, EOH stuck it's sphinx-like neck out. No other DOCTOR WHO website, UK or USA, published this date prior to this. We checked at the time.

So, if 15 April is wrong, EOH will apologise.

SERIES 2 TRAILERS

As for the TRAILERS that we were told would be broadcast from Saturday 11 March; this was inaccurate. EOH was given this date by a BBC TV employee. Sorry but TV programming changes.

Paul McGann returning to SERIES 1

A BBC Drama Executive told EOH that it was an intention to provide "a continuity" to DOCTOR WHO. Naturally, this did not happen. Sorry.

The Pre-title sequence

We ran this information before any other website, and the information was dismissed by BBC WALES, only to be reverse by Producer, Phil Collinson mere months before SERIES 1 launch.

There are other instances, but that will do for now. As former Producer, John Nathan-Turner used to say, "Stay tuned!".

Matthew Walter | Online Editor