Five years ago the Doctor Who world was buzzing with excitement as the first pictures from filming of the new series with a new Doctor and new companion surfaced on the internet. That excitement is about to descend upon us again. A lucky fan in Cardiff managed to snap this picture of herself with a couple of people who used to be fairly unknown six months ago, but are set to become household names in the UK, and is the surest sign yet that filming is about to begin in Cardiff on Matt Smith’s first season of Doctor Who. Eagle-eyed fans might recognize this as Cardiff Bay, where a number of Who and Torchwood episodes have been shot (you can see the Restaurant jutting out from into the Bay where a scene in Boomtown was filmed all those years ago).

This pic is not of the actors in costume, yet I can’t help but feel that Matt Smith looks very much like the Doctor even out of costume, and he and Karen Gillan look like they are going to be a great TARDIS team. Filming apparently starts next week and we should get the first pics of them in costume by that time.