2019 in Scottish television

This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2019.

Events

January

• No events.

February

• 12 February – Details of BBC Scotland's flagship news programme, The Nine , are released. The 60-minute programme will air daily from 9.00pm, and has a fifteen strong team of presenters and reporters. It will be anchored by Rebecca Curran and Martin Geissler. ^[1]
• 17 February – BBC Two Scotland closes in preparation for the launch of the BBC Scotland channel. Viewers in Scotland can still watch the national version of BBC Two, with regional content aired by BBC Two Scotland being transferred to the new channel. ^[2]
• 24 February – At 7pm, the BBC Scotland channel launches. ^[3] Overnight figures indicate it to have had a peak viewership of 700,000, with five of the top ten programmes seen in Scotland being aired by BBC Scotland. ^[4]
• 25 February – BBC Scotland launches its weekday flagship news programme The Nine . ^[5]
• 27 February – Launch of Debate Night , BBC Scotland's weekly political debate show. ^[5]

March

• No events.

April

• 11 April – Jackie Bird presents her final bulletin for Reporting Scotland , after thirty years of appearing on the programme. ^[6]

May to October

• No events.

November

• 26 November – Details of three BBC Scotland comedy programmes for 2020, are released. Three 30 minute shows were commissioned: The Scotts, Group and the Daly Grind. ^[7]

December

• No events.

Debuts

BBC

• 25 February – The Nine on BBC Scotland
• 27 February – Debate Night on BBC Scotland
• 1 March – A View from the Terrace on BBC Scotland
• 26 March – Rogue to Wrestler on BBC Scotland
• 7 August – Jamie Genevieve: A Year in the Life on BBC Scotland
• 10 November – The Big Scottish Book Club on BBC Scotland ^[8]

Television series

• Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
• Sportscene (1975–present) ^[9]
• Landward (1976–present)
• The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
• Eòrpa (1993–present)
• Only an Excuse? (1993–2020) ^[10]
• River City (2002–present)
• The Adventure Show (2005–present)
• Daybreak Scotland (2007–present)
• An Là (2008–present)
• Trusadh (2008–present)
• STV Rugby (2009–2010; 2011–present)
• STV News at Six (2009–present)
• The Nightshift (2010–present)
• Scotland Tonight (2011–present)
• Shetland (2013–present)
• Scot Squad (2014–present)
• Two Doors Down (2016–present)
• Molly and Mack (2018–2022) ^[11]

Ending this year

• Still Game (2002–2007; 2016–2019) ^[12]

See also

• 2019 in Scotland

References

1. "Meet the news stars of BBC Scotland's The Nine". BBC News. BBC. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
2. "Where to find the new BBC Scotland TV channel". BBC News. BBC. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
3. "Final Still Game to launch on new BBC Scotland channel". The Herald . 23 November 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
4. "New BBC Scotland channel peaks at 700,000 viewers on launch night". BBC News. BBC. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
5. Ferguson, Brian (14 February 2019). "New BBC channel launches with 'Scotland's Question Time' and Scots stars". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
6. Miller, Phil (11 April 2019). "Jackie Bird leaves BBC Reporting Scotland after 30 years". The Herald . Glasgow. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
7. Ferguson, Brian (26 November 2019). "BBC ready to launch three new comedies with Scottish star Shauna Macdonald". The Scotsman . Retrieved 2 January 2020.
8. "The Big Scottish Book Club". BBC . Retrieved 30 December 2020.
9. "Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary". BBC Sport. 6 August 2025. Archived from the original on 11 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
10. "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?". HeraldScotland. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
11. "Goodbye Molly and Mack – CBeebies' most adorable show". the Guardian. 25 November 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
12. "Still Game comedy duo say Jack and Victor will not be back". BBC News. 15 February 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2022.