These engrossing tales of wealth and class, brutality and cruelty, could only happen in mysterious Scotland. This series combines glossy drama reconstruction and expert opinion coupled with legal insights and a wealth of supporting reference materials from police reports, medical records, personal letters and images ...
A wild and epic journey of unexpected discoveries, this series follows vet and adventurer Cal Major on an 800mile stand-up paddleboarding expedition around Scotland's most dramatic and stunning coastline. Through stories of our human connection to the ocean, we meet the people whose lives are intertwined with the sea, and investigate the vitally important wildlife and ecosystems in Scottish waters.
The Agenda is a topical British chat show presented by Tom Bradby. It was first broadcast on ITV on 27 February 2012. Each episode lasts for 30 minutes.
In each episode, Bradby is joined by four guests who discuss the biggest news stories of the previous week and then talk about the week ahead. Guests have included UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy PM Nick Clegg and Mayor of London Boris Johnson.
Paul O'Grady Live is a British comedy chat show hosted by Paul O'Grady, that began airing on 10 September 2010 on ITV. The show is a Friday night chat show that features a mixture of celebrity guests, airing at 21:00. The show culminates with different Vegas-style acts or music artist performing live on the show. The show has averaged 3.74 million viewers. Series one of the programme finished on 12 November 2010, although a Christmas special aired on 24 December 2010. The show's second series began on 15 April 2011.
The Steamie is a comedy-drama stage play, written by Rab C. Nesbitt actor Tony Roper. It followed the lives of a group of 1950s Glasgow women washing their clothes in a public washhouse. It was first performed at the Crawford Theatre, Glasgow in 1987.
A television version was made by Scottish Television for Hogmanay 1988. It gained immediate popularity, and has been repeated many times over the years. It starred Dorothy Paul, Eileen McCallum, Katy Murphy, Sheila Donald, Faye Milligan and Peter Mullan. Future EastEnders cast member Caroline Paterson made a cameo appearance. Haldane Duncan co-produced and directed it. A novelisation, also by Roper, was published in 2005.
The Steamie came second in an online poll for the television 'list' show STV's Top 30 Best Loved Shows, shown on Saturday 3 January 2009. The following day, a short documentary - The Steamie Story was broadcast on STV, marking the 21st anniversary of its first TV transmission. This was followed by the show itself. The Steamie is available to view i
STV News at Six is a Scottish regional news programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV Central in the Central region and STV North in the Northern region.
The programmes were launched on 23 March 2009, replacing Scotland Today in Central Scotland and North Tonight in Northern Scotland. As of 23 May 2011, three separate editions of STV News at Six are produced each weekday for the East and West of the Central region and for the entire North region.
The three programmes are produced from studios in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen with reporters also based at studios in Dundee and Inverness and political correspondents based at Holyrood and Westminster. Freelance correspondents and camera crews are based on the Orkney and Shetland Isles, Wick and Fort William with a permanent Western Isles correspondent based in Stornoway.
In addition to its daily bulletins, STV News also produces some non-news programming including current affairs, Champions League Live and on
Scotland's leading animal charity, the SSPCA, opens its doors to work of inspectors and animal rescue officers as they save and care for abused, abandoned and injured animals all over Scotland.
STV Sports Centre was a Scottish regional sports stand, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland. The strand was produced the STV News department in Glasgow, with contributions from STV North's news team in Aberdeen.
Until May 2011, Sports Centre aired two different programmes: Friday Night Football, broadcast on Friday nights at 10:30pm, and Magners League Rugby - airing on Sundays straight after the late ITV News bulletin. The programmes were produced by the STV News department in Glasgow, with contributions from STV North's news team in Aberdeen. Short Sports Centre news bulletins also aired on Monday - Thursday nights at 10:35pm during the late regional bulletins from STV News.
The first series of STV Sports Centre, launched just two years after the long-running Scotsport was axed, featured interviews, special reports, analysis, a preview of the weekend's football and competitions. Gerry McCulloch and Sheelagh McLaren were the presenters.
Cracked is a Scottish comedy drama, which was broadcast on STV. Created and written by Clare Hemphill and Kate Donnelly, the drama series is set in a Scottish countryside residential rehab clinic, a place where people with various mental and emotional problems check themselves in for some professional tender loving care. Over six episodes, the series deals with issues that are difficult and dark, but also more light hearted and comical situations.
Cracked was produced by STV Productions in 2005, but due to the lack of appropriate regional time-slots, the series wasn't broadcast until 2008, where it was shown on Thursday nights at 10:40pm, taking the place of popular comedy-drama High Times.
STV Rugby was a Scottish regional television programme featuring highlights of RaboDirect Pro12 rugby matches involving Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors. The programme, produced by the STV News department in Glasgow, was first broadcast in the 2009/10 season after a deal with the Celtic League Association, Scottish Rugby and STV was reached, following the closure of Setanta Sports in the UK.
Magners League rugby returned to STV for the 2010/11 season, under the new name of Sports Centre: Rugby. The STV Rugby brand returned for the 2011/12 season, after Sports Centre was axed. The 2012/2013 season was the last to be covered by STV Rugby.
Made in Scotland was a 3-part documentary series produced by STV Productions and broadcast on STV in Northern and Central Scotland in 2009, presented by Taggart actor John Michie. The show has since been broadcast across the UK on digital channel Blighty.
Michie, as well as a number of well known faces from Scotland, focus on an iconic symbol that makes Scotland so unique and recognisable internationally.
Exploring the country, its people and its culture, this series has seen celebrities examining Scottish icons that many Scots take for granted, while revealing little known history and also challenging popular assumptions.
The programme was made by STV, in association with the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, to celebrate Homecoming Scotland 2009.
10-minute clips of the programme are used as fillers on STV.
Politics Now was a Scottish political programme produced and broadcast by STV in northern and central Scotland. The programme, broadcast for 40 weeks of the year, on a Thursday evenings after the main ITV news, covered all of the big Political developments in Westminster, Brussels and Holyrood in detail.
The programme was presented by STV's political editor Bernard Ponsonby with features reports and contributions from the rest of STV's political unit - Westminster correspondent Harry Smith, political correspondent Jamie Livingstone and freelance reporter David Torrance. The programme was originally presented by former political correspondent Michael Crow until his departure from the station in January 2009.
The series was replaced in 2011 by Scotland Tonight, which broadcast Mondays to Thursdays on STV covering current affairs and politics.
wknd@stv is a short-lived children's programming strand on Scottish television channel, STV. The block aired on Saturdays and Sundays, usually starting at 9.25am. It began on Saturday 17 January 2009 with a three-hour edition. The majority of editions were one to two hours in length.
The first series was originally scheduled to run for twelve weeks, but STV subsequently decided to extend the run, which eventually ended on 21 June, just before the Scottish school summer holidays. A second series of wknd@stv began on Saturday 15 August 2009; this ran for six weeks, ending on 20 September 2009.
Featured programming consisted of cartoons, live-action drama/comedy and gameshows, principally archive output produced or co-produced by Scottish/Grampian; there was also some imported programming to which STV holds the rights, such as Flying Rhino Junior High, which STV purchased prior to the launch of wknd@stv.
At the time of wknd@stv launching, the ITV network was not airing children's programming on weekend mornings. A
All Star Family Fortunes is a British television game show presented by Vernon Kay. It is a celebrity revival of the original Family Fortunes that aired on ITV from 6 January 1980 to 6 December 2002 and was in turn based on the American game show Family Feud.
After a successful stint as the "grand final" of Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon in 2005, Family Fortunes was revived by ITV in 2006 under the title of All Star Family Fortunes. Episodes are currently being shown on ITV on Saturday/Sunday evenings.
Take Me to the Edge is a British reality series investigating global rites of passage. Host Leo Houlding brings five adults to different parts of the world, where they experience local rites of passage such as rock climbs, running through fire, drinking blood straight from a cow’s neck and climbing into a swarm of bees.
The six-part series was commissioned by and first shown on Virgin1, and has been re-aired in 2009 on Scottish television station, STV.
Dale's Great Getaway is a British entertainment game show which first aired on ITV on 29 December 2012. Presented by Dale Winton, the show features three families compete in a series of challenges hoping to win up to £15,000 and a holiday.
STV Appeal is a Scottish charity appeal organised by STV and The Hunter Foundation, in aid of the STV Charitable Trust.
An annual venture, the STV Appeal is committed to providing support across a wide range of issues affecting Scotland, and in its first year the charity's work was focused on supporting children and young people affected by poverty.
Working closely with six major Scottish charities, each of them well-established experts in the area of child poverty, STV Appeal helps local projects all over the country who work hard to support children at risk of poverty.
In addition to raising essential funds, STV Appeal 2011 focused on raising awareness, challenging stereotypes and bringing attention to the real extent of child poverty in Scotland, aiming to tackle both the causes and effects of poverty and disadvantage.
The Whole 19 Yards was a physical/general knowledge game show broadcast on ITV. It first aired on 17 April 2010 and aired on Saturday nights at 19:00. It is presented by Vernon Kay and is assisted throughout by Caroline Flack who explains how each game is played, thereby being known as the "Games Guru". Glenn Hugill is the announcer and commentates on events for viewers at home. It is filmed at Pinewood Studios in London and produced by Initial, a subsidiary of Endemol, which owns the worldwide format. The show was cancelled due to high production costs following its eight episode run.