Matt Smith: 'Doctor Who is a privilege'

Matt Smith has claimed that working on Doctor Who is "glorious".

The 27-year-old actor, who was appointed as the Eleventh Doctor last year, said that it is "a great privilege" to work on the show.

"I've moved up to Cardiff and I get to go and be The Doctor every day, which is just glorious," he told SFX. "It's a great privilege, really.

"And obviously there aren't many parts where a) it's announced like that and b) your life changes in a public sense as much, because obviously the show is so well loved and so widely received that people are aware of it."

He added: "[My life has] changed in the way that I now fight aliens every day! Aliens that aren't actually there in front of me... Often you're looking at a ball of string and some guy, and that's meant to be some sort of horrible demonic creature from the gallows!"

Ten teasers about 'Who' episode two

Episode one is now done and dusted, so we're turning our attention to ep two quicker than you can say "Silence is falling, Doctor".
Here are ten tiny teasers about the Moffat-penned second episode, 'The Beast Below':
1. It's set more than a millennium into the future, at a time when the Earth has been abandoned and the UK is a floating spaceship known as Starship Britain.
2. That apparently makes Amelia Amy... oooh, 1306 years old.
3. The Smilers are creatures that live in arcade machine boxes, similar to the Zoltar fortune teller from BIG. Except you should try to avoid interacting with these.
4. Amy is presented with three options, Matrix-style. She chooses the second, then the third.
5. "Protestors and citizens of limited ***** are *** ** *** *****."
6. There's an homage to Katy Brand's "f***ing Queen". But this one is merely "the bloody Queen".
7. Amy: "You look *****." The Doctor: "No, you look **** ****."
8. Amy wears her nightie throughout the episode - and it gets wet.
9. He may appear to be fun and kooky, but this Doctor can get angry. REALLY angry.
10. Episode two directly segues into episode three when The Doctor gets a call from an old pal.