BBC1 Original British Drama - autumn 2012

After the recent BBC2 trailer, now it's BBC1's turn to get in on the action. They've released a tease of six new dramas coming to the BBC's flagship channel this autumn, and naturally they look glossier and more expensive than BBC2's more erudite offerings.

There's the four-part drama Good Cop, starring Warren Brown (Luther) as a Liverpool policeman whose moral compass gets spun after the death of a friend; Suranne Jones headlining Joe Ahearne's adaptation of James Herbert's ghost story The Secret of Crickley Hall, alongside Tom Ellis (Miranda), Douglas Henshall (South Riding), David Warner, Sarah Smart (Wallander), Iain De Caestecker (The Fades) and Donald Sumpter (Game of Thrones); the Anglo-American co-production Hunted from writer Frank Spotnitz (The X Files), starring Melissa George (Alias) as a spy on the run from her own agency; Shetland, a two-part murder-mystery set on the titular Scottish isles, starring Douglas Henshall as Detective Jimmy Perez; series 2 of Jimmy McGovern's Accused, this time starring Anne-Marie Duff (Shameless), Olivia Colman (Peep Show), Robert Sheehan (Misfits) and Sheridan Smith (Love Soup); and 19th-century cop show Ripper Street, an eight-part BBC America co-production following police officers of the infamous Whitechapel district in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders, starring Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones), Adam Rothenberg (Alcatraz), Myanna Buring (The Twilight Saga) and David Dawson (Luther).

Ripper Street - just one of BBC One's six new dramas coming this autumn

It's a brilliant line-up, that certainly looks very exciting from the trailer. I'm particularly keen to see Hunted and Ripper Street, but Good Cop and The Secret of Crickley Hall also sound very promising. Each show has a fantastic group of actors involved, too. At a time when Sky are dominating industry headlines with their fancy new homegrown productions, it's nice for the BBC to remind people they haven't been written off.