All power to the Doctor's new logo

The striking, large letters look monolithic, almost ancient yet modern as well – timeless, I suppose, like the Doctor himself,

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School books around the country will soon be adorned with the brand new Doctor Who logo, unveiled this week to coincide with pictures of latest assistant Karen Gillan dressed in the shortest police skirt I've ever seen.

The chunky capital letters are in stark contrast to Gillan's absurdly slender legs but I have to say I rather like them (the letters, not the legs, although there's nothing wrong with them either).

With the word Doctor written on top of Who this is a return to the classic versions of the logo which were used from the show's origins right up until the late 80s when Sylvester McCoy was in the title role.

Those ones, incidentally, tumbled about the place before a shooting star wrote Doctor in the corner above Who. They looked like they were designed by some 80s computer nerd playing around with the fonts on his Amstrad.

I wonder also if the new logo will be accompanied by pictures of the good Doc's head in the opening credits, like in the good old days. I do hope so, as long as he doesn't do the McCoy wink. New Doctor Matt Smith doesn't look like a winker.

Take away that dodgy DW symbol at the side, supposedly shaped like the TARDIS but more closely resembling a radiator and a door, and it could work.

The outgoing burnt orange of the logo, used since Christopher Eccleston's Doctor arrived in 2005, spun through the vortex of time and space on a collision course with our screens.

It looked almost fragile as it was buffeted around by the power of the cosmos.

This logo boasts a confidence of something that will not be moved, that is here to stay.

According to the last episode penned by new chief writer Steven Moffatt he sees the Doctor as the stuff of legend, the sort of man who can stand atop a mountain and laugh as whole armies and hoards of aliens turn tail and run.

That's rather difficult to imagine given the young actor Matt Smith's costume of a leather-patched tweed jacket and a bow tie. In pictures he also looks rather squirmy.

Also emerged this week are photos of Smith wearing the tatty remains of David Tennant's suit as he runs around pursued by police uniform-clad Gillan.

This was the moment my inner cloister bell started to sound and I heard him (whoever he is) knock four times.

It's really going to happen isn't it? David Tennant's going and there's nothing any of us can do about it. He's been such a brilliant Doctor I must admit I fear I shall shed a tear this Christmas.

That's a big deal for me. I haven't done that since Santa Claus "forgot" to bring me a Magna Doodle. If you're wondering I was only consoled after he mysteriously delivered it to the front door while I was on the loo.