2011 in Scottish television

This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2011.

Events

• 2 February – Former STV reporter Craig Oliver is appointed as British Prime Minister David Cameron's Director of Communications.^[1]
• 24 April – In an open letter to The Sunday Herald, a group of 20 Scottish artists, writers, comedians, actors and musicians, including Alan Cumming, AL Kennedy and Mark Millar urge the UK Government to establish a publicly funded Scottish digital television channel. The Government has previously ruled the prospect out until 2017.^[2]
• 5 May – Coverage of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
• 12 May – ITV axes the Scottish police drama Taggart after 28 years, citing poor viewing figures in other parts of the UK.^[3]
• 21 May – The BBC says that due to bandwidth restrictions on Freeview, the launch of BBC Alba will require all but three of its radio stations to stop broadcasting on the platform in Scotland while the Gaelic language TV channel is on air. The stations unaffected are BBC 1Xtra, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC 6 Music.^[4]
• 23 May – The Gaelic language television station TeleG closes after twelve years on air.
• 6 June – The BBC announces that the national variations of BBC One Northern Ireland, BBC One Scotland and BBC One Wales will become available in high definition in 2012.^[5]
• 22 June – The last analogue television services are switched off in Scotland, making it the second part of the UK to have a fully digital service.
• 23 August – As part of its strategy to increase network programming output from Scotland, the BBC confirms that filming of the BBC One school drama, Waterloo Road will be moved to Scotland from April 2012.^[6]

Debuts

ITV

• 24 October – Scotland Tonight (2011–present)

Returning this year

• 4 September – STV Rugby (2009–2010; 2011–present)

Television series

• Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
• Sportscene (1975–present)
• Public Account (1976–present)
• The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
• Taggart (1983–present)
• Only an Excuse? (1993–present)
• River City (2002–present)
• The Adventure Show (2005–present)
• Daybreak Scotland (2007–present)
• Trusadh (2008–present)
• Gary: Tank Commander (2009–present)
• Sport Nation (2009–present)
• STV News at Six (2009–present)
• Limmy's Show (2010–present)
• The Nightshift (2010–present)

Ending this year

• 12 February – Brain Box (2010–2011)
• 30 May – The Scheme (2010–2011)
• 30 June – Politics Now (2004–2011)

Deaths

• 31 January – Stuart Hood, 94, writer and television producer
• 12 February – James Elliott, 82, actor

References