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Autumn TV preview

Mathew Horne as Gavin and Joanna Page as Stacey in Gavin and Stacey
  • Posted at 11:15am
  • 26 August 2009
  • by WilliamGallagher-RT

It's the new season - a season that takes us near to the end of one Doctor and shows us the start of a new Miss Marple. There's going to be tension in new Spooks and maybe even more in the new-look Strictly Come Dancing. Robbie Coltrane is back, starring in a new crime drama, while Gavin and Stacey say their last goodbyes.

Every channel is launching new dramas, new factual series plus new comedy and entertainment, and all are bringing back old favourites. See what you think as Radio Times shows you the lot.

NEW DRAMA

Emma
Atonement's Romola Garai stars in BBC1's dramatisation of Jane Austen's classic, alongside Jonny Lee Miller, Tamsin Greig and Michael Gambon

Churchill at War
Seven years after the hit The Gathering Storm, BBC2 brings us a sequel

Small Island
Andrea Levy's novel of prejudice after the Second World War comes to BBC1, with Naomie Harris and David Oyelowo

Garrow's Law
BBC1's latest crime series stars Andrew Buchan as real-life Georgian barrister William Garrow

Murderland
Robbie Coltrane returns to crime drama with ITV1's new series

Collision
Anthony Horowitz follows in the new tradition of Criminal Justice, Five Days and Torchwood to give ITV1 an event serial

The Queen
Channel 4 recounts the key events of Queen Elizabeth II's reign in a drama documentary

RETURNING DRAMA

Doctor Who
The second of David Tennant's last four specials comes to BBC1

Waking the Dead
The cold case team return to BBC1 for more tales

Merlin
The boy wizard grows up just a little bit more in BBC1's series

Spooks
BBC1's incredibly tense spy drama continues - but who will survive this year?

Criminal Justice 2
Following on from last year's acclaimed serial, BBC1 has a new case

Miss Marple
Geraldine McEwan regenerates into Julia McKenzie for ITV1's hit drama

Doc Martin
Trouble, romance and gorgeous scenery once more for Martin Clunes on ITV1

COMEDY

Gavin & Stacey
Very funny but very sad: BBC1 hosts the final run of the great series

The Thick of It
Armando Iannucci's viciously funny political satire returns to BBC2

The Armstrong and Miller show
Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller go very silly for BBC1

Benidorm
ITV1 goes back to Spain for its best comedy hit of recent years

Peep Show
David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back for a sixth series on Channel 4

ENTERTAINMENT

Children in Need: Around the World in 80 Days
This year celebrities including John Barrowman, Nick Hewer and Myleene Klass literally head around the globe to raise money for BBC1 and BBC Radio 2

Strictly Come Dancing
New celebrities, a new judge and the promise of new surprises: Strictly is back for its most controversial series yet

QI
Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and guests examine more quite interesting facts in a new series

FACTUAL

Cat Woman
Joanna Lumley investigates our fondness for cats in a new ITV1 documentary

Watchdog
Anne Robinson returns to a new-look Watchdog on BBC1

Life
David Attenborough is back with another stupendous natural history epic on the BBC

Last Chance to See
For BBC2, Stephen Fry retraces his friend Douglas Adams's 1980s journey around the world to see endangered species - and finds out how they've fared

40 Years of Delia
Delia Smith celebrates and is celebrated in BBC2's tribute cookery series

Age of Churchill
Andrew Marr examines the rule of one of our most famous leaders for BBC2

The Modern Beauty Season
BBC2 and BBC4 together examine modern art

Kevin's Grand Tour
Kevin McCloud goes on a tour of great European cities for Channel 4

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Are you looking forward to the autumn TV line-up? Post a comment and let us know.

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