2020 in Scottish television

This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2020.

Events

July

• 31 July – Steve Carson named as new director of BBC Scotland, to replace Donalda MacKinnon later in the year.

August

• 25 August – Filming recommences on BBC Scotland's soap River City after it was suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

October

• 19 October – Steve Carson starts as director of BBC Scotland. Around twenty staff departures, including some long-serving correspondents, are announced, as attempts are made to reduce the budget of the organisation by around £6.2 million by April.

November

• 4 November – Amazon announces that its supernatural thriller series The Rig is to be filmed in Scotland.
• 7 November – Sky Sports announces that the Scotland and Northern Ireland Euro 2020 play-off finals will be made free-to-air on UK television.

December

• 1 December – BBC Scotland announces that Susan Calman will front their Hogmanay Live programme for a second time, with Deacon Blue, Amy Macdonald and Blazin' Fiddles. Jackie Bird is to host an hour-long programme celebrating Scotland's heroes of the coronavirus pandemic.
• 19 December – Nicola Walker will take on the role of DI Annika Strandhed in a UKTV drama series around murders that are discovered in the waterways of Scotland.
• 27 December – Details of the cast for BBC Scotland's Hogmanay programme for 2020, are released.
• 31 December – Hogmanay Live with Susan Calman sees in the New Year; overnight viewing figures indicate it is watched by 1.05 million viewers.

Debuts

BBC

The Scotts, Group and the Daly Grind.

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)
• Two Doors Down (2016–present)
• Molly and Mack (2018–2022)
• The Nine (2019–present)
• Debate Night (2019–present)
• A View from the Terrace (2019–present)

Ending this year

• Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)

Deaths

• 9 July – Johnny Beattie, 93, actor
• 15 July – Maurice Roëves, 83, actor
• 26 October – John Duncanson, 80, broadcaster (North Tonight)

See also

• 2020 in Scotland

References