BBC has unleashed a new preview showing off a first look at the next series with Matt Smith, the 11th version of the iconic character. The BBC released our first trailer of the newest season of Doctor Who, due on air in the UK this Spring. The trailer gives us plenty of information about the future of the series, including the Doctor’s new look TARDIS exterior, his new look costume as well as what seems to be some slight visual changes with the show with the show itself seemingly using colder palettes, replacing the orange hues of the show with bluer, cooler colors, seemingly mimicing the change in logo.

It’s always changing. And all we can do, really, is just hang on for the ride. Certain familiar faces are back, such as the Daleks and the Weeping Angels (both of whom were known to be returning before the trailer was made). We also have the Doctor firing a gun and knocking a person out, something he rarely does and usually only under extreme circumstances. Apparently “Geronimo” has become Matt Smith’s catchphrase. It could have been worse.

Refer to, Tennant confirms. “I think Planet of the Dead … was probably the last hurrah for the 10th Doctor in terms of his last untroubled … I mean, he was (always) in mortal danger, but he was loving it. Really, from The Waters of Mars and heading into that final story, the Sword of Damocles is dangling, I think, and that informs everything that goes on. “It’s such an unusual show,” he allows, “because it’s different every week. Literally, it goes to a different place every week, and there’s a different style every week. You know, you can do a comedy episode. You can do a dark, psychological episode. You can have romps. You can have love stories. You can have adventures. Waters of Mars is a very tense, claustrophobic, trapped-in-a-submarine kind of thing. Going into the finale, it becomes a sort of personal epic …