2024 in Scottish television
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This is a list of events taking place in 2024 relating to Scottish television.
Events
January
- 1 January – STV's Bringing in the Bells is hosted by Alex Norton, Blythe Duff, Martin Compston and others to see in the New Year.[1]
June
- 4 June – 2024 United Kingdom general election: The first leaders debate takes place in Scotland, with the leaders of Scotland's four main political parties taking part in a debate on STV.[2]
- 11 June – BBC Scotland airs an election debate featuring the leaders of Scotland's five main political parties: John Swinney (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Scottish Labour), Alex Cole-Hamilton (Scottish Liberal Democrats) and Lorna Slater (Scottish Greens).[3]
July
- 1 July – Steve Carson is to step down as Head of Multi-Platform Commissioning at BBC Scotland in September, in order to take up a senior role at Irish broadcaster RTÉ.[4]
August
- 6 August – Ofcom approves planned changes to the BBC Scotland television channel that will see cutbacks to its news, with its hour-long 9pm weekday programme The Nine replaced by a 30 minute programme at 7pm.[5]
December
- 9 December – BBC Scotland announces the launch of two new news programmes in early 2025: Reporting Scotland: News at Seven, a weeknight news bulletin presented by Laura Maciver and Amy Irons on the BBC Scotland channel from 6 January, and the Scotcast podcast with Martin Geissler launching on 13 January.[6]
- 22 December – BBC Scotland announces the end of the Sportscene Results programme which had been a longstanding football results service on BBC One Scotland. From early January, they planned for a new format with results to be delivered by Radio Scotland's Open All Mics team with some visualisation.[7]
Debuts
- 10 September – Salmond and Sturgeon: A Troubled Union on BBC Scotland[8]
Ongoing television programmes
1960s
- Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
1970s
- Sportscene (1975–present)[9]
- Landward (1976–present)
- The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
1990s
- Eòrpa (1993–present)
2000s
- River City (2002–present)
- The Adventure Show (2005–present)
- An Là (2008–present)
- Trusadh (2008–present)
- STV Rugby (2009–2010; 2011–present)
- STV News at Six (2009–present)
2010s
- Scotland Tonight (2011–present)
- Shetland (2013–present)
- Scot Squad (2014–present)
- Still Game (2016–present)
- Two Doors Down (2016–present)
- The Nine (2019–present)
- Debate Night (2019–present)
- A View from the Terrace (2019–present)
Deaths
- 6 March – Nick Sheridan, 32, Irish journalist and television presenter (News2day, Reporting Scotland, The Nine)[10]
- 14 May – Gudrun Ure, 98, actress (Super Gran)[11]
- 26 June – Pat Heywood, 92, actress (Lucky Feller, Wuthering Heights, Inspector Morse, Root Into Europe)[12]
- 28 July – John Anderson, 92, television referee (Gladiators)[13]
- 5 August – Ron Bain, 79, actor (Naked Video)[14]
- 9 August – Brian Marjoribanks, 82, Scottish footballer (Hibernian), actor and broadcaster (BBC Scotland).[15]
- 2 November – Janey Godley, 63, comedian (Have I Got News for You) and actress (River City)[16]