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)
• 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)^[9]
• 14 May – Gudrun Ure, 98, actress (Super Gran)^[10]
• 26 June – Pat Heywood, 92, actress (Lucky Feller, Wuthering Heights, Inspector Morse, Root Into Europe)^[11]
• 28 July – John Anderson, 92, television referee (Gladiators)^[12]
• 5 August – Ron Bain, 79, actor (Naked Video)^[13]
• 9 August – Brian Marjoribanks, 82, Scottish footballer (Hibernian), actor and broadcaster (BBC Scotland).^[14]
• 2 November – Janey Godley, 63, comedian (Have I Got News for You) and actress (River City)^[15]

See also

• 2024 in Scotland