The Guardian's resident telly addict Andrew Collins draws back the curtain on the schedules' autumn gloom, travelling east (east London, that is) to Hackney for the gritty drama of Top Boy; crossing the river to Thamesmead estate for a dose of superpowers in E4's Misfits; and probing the underworld of Paris with Olivier Marchal's Braquo

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