2024 in Scottish television

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]

February to May

• No events.

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]

September to November

• No events.

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]

See also

• 2024 in Scotland

References

1. Cormack, Morgan (6 December 2023). "Line of Duty and Taggart stars team up to celebrate Hogmanay on STV". Radio Times . Retrieved 19 December 2023.
2. "Party leaders clash over North Sea industry in election debate". BBC News. BBC. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
3. "Who are the leaders of Scotland's political parties?". BBC News. BBC. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
4. "Steve Carson to step down as head of BBC Scotland". BBC News. BBC. 1 July 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
5. "Changes to BBC Scotland news programming approved by Ofcom". BBC News. BBC. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
6. "BBC Scotland to launch Scotcast and News at Seven in January". BBC News. BBC. 9 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
7. "BBC Scotland makes change to football coverage with popular show axed". The National . 22 December 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
8. "Swinney raised concerns over Sturgeon's indyref2 strategy". BBC News. BBC. 8 September 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
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. "BBC Scotland presenter Nick Sheridan dies after short illness". BBC News. BBC. 7 March 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
11. "Super Gran star Gudrun Ure dies aged 98". BBC News. 15 May 2024.
12. Barnes, Mike (26 July 2024). "Pat Heywood, the Nurse in Franco Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet,' Dies at 92". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
13. "'Gladiators ready! Contenders ready!': Iconic Gladiators referee John Anderson dies". Sky News. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
14. "'Naked Video' actor and director Ron Bain dies aged 79". BBC News. 6 August 2024.
15. "Tributes to Scottish football star who became successful actor and broadcaster". The Scotsman. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
16. "Scottish comedian Janey Godley dies aged 63". BBC News. BBC. 2 November 2024.