Alright! The new season starts on the SCI FI channel tonight with a two hour special. The New York Times had a great article on what to expect:

"Tonight's first episode involves something called the Nestene Consciousness, a giant vat of melted plastic that, having somehow exhausted its native food supply, has arrived on Earth to feed on our oil and hydrocarbons, and is causing department store mannequins to jerk into life. There is also a rubber trash bin that flypapers one of the characters, swallows him and turns him into a very unconvincing dummy of himself. (These transformations are all rendered in such an old-fashioned, uncomputerized way that one hopes the unconvincingness is deliberate; the effects get better in the second episode, set five billion years in the future, when, curiously, civilization seems to have forgotten about air-conditioning.)

The familiar blue police box doesn't seem much revamped, either; it appears to run on pneumatic tubes, and there is no sign of a computer on board. The Doctor, on the other hand, almost quivers with energy. In previous regenerations, depending on the actor playing him, this character has variously been crotchety, spacey, avuncular and even a little glamorous. Christopher Eccleston brings a kind of manic blokishness to the part, giving the Doctor a sardonic grin and a working-class Manchester accent. (When another character says, "If you're an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North?" he replies, "Lots of planets have a North.")"

Also, the SCI Fi channel has a new website and trailers just in time for this landmark moment.