The best autumn 2012 TV shows

Mrs Biggs ITV looks at the Great Train Robbery from the point of view of Ronnie Biggs' then wife, Charmian. The underrated Sheridan Smith plays the titular role with great style, while Danny Mays is excellent as her infamous husband. ITV, September Hunted It looks like Spooks , sounds like Spooks, and is even made by the same company. But BBC1's new international spy drama starring Melissa George – a co-production with HBO's Cinemax – is altogether more high-end, with MI5 ditched in favour of spying for paying clients. It is, possibly, even more ludicrous. BBC1, October Hotel GB Either a brilliant idea or a hideous one: let viewers check in to a hotel run by C4 stars including Gordon Ramsay and Mary Portas (dare you to leave them a bad Trip Advisor review) and help to raise cash for employment charities. Book by emailing [email protected] . Channel 4, October Girls British audiences have had to wait for HBO's comedy drama about a group of 20-something women living in New York. But Lena Dunham 's show – she writes, stars and sometimes directs – finally makes its way to UK screens this autumn following largely positive US reviews. Sky Atlantic, October Playhouse Presents … A Young Doctor's Notebook Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm star in an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's short stories for the Playhouse Presents strand. The four-part drama draws on Bulgakov's time as a doctor during the Russian revolution. Hamm as the central character talks to his younger self, played by Radcliffe. Sky Arts, December The Girl BBC2 has been on fine form, with a series of ambitious dramas. The latest is The Girl, starring Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock and Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren, the last of the "Hitchcock blondes". The single drama explores Hitchcock's obsession with the star of The Birds . BBC2, December