Film & TV
Do you know an inspirational sports or fitness figure?
The search is on for Scotland’s most inspiring, dynamic and dedicated volunteers driving participation in grassroots sports and fitness activities. Nominations for the 2018 BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero award are now open. Returning for its 16th year, Unsung Hero 2018 seeks out volunteers who are inspiring people of all ages to get up and…
Read MoreBringing the beauty of Scotland’s lochs to your home
A trip around some of the most beautiful lochs in Scotland is to get underway on Monday evening. A second series of Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs gets underway as Paul Murton continues his loch-hopping odyssey. With tens of thousands of lochs in Scotland, from the great freshwater lochs of the central highlands, the fjord-like…
Read MoreOutlander castle is ready for visitors On Location
Visitors are invited to celebrate a Scottish castle’s status as an Outlander film location with Historic Environment Scotland’s first On Location event this weekend. Blackness Castle has been used as a filming location for a range of movies and TV shows including Outlander, where it featured as the setting for Fort William. Outlander stars Scots…
Read MoreScottish vet stars in new show as she helps sick pets
A Scottish vet is currently starring in a brand new TV series, showcasing the amazing lifesaving work of vet charity PDSA. Anne Robinson, originally from Motherwell, features in the fascinating new series on Channel 4, called The People’s Vet, where cameras spent six months behind the scenes at two of the charity’s busy Pet Hospitals…
Read MoreA handy new guide to Scotland on the small screen
A new VisitScotland guide highlighting Scotland as the home of some of the world’s greatest TV has been launched. The booklet, TV Set in Scotland, produced by VisitScotland, contains details of more than 60 television programmes, which have either been filmed in Scotland or have Scottish links. It coincides with the 130th anniversary of the…
Read MoreA galaxy of stars came to Scotland to meet their fans
Scottish shoppers had a surprise at the weekend when Darth Vader, Spider-Man, and several incarnations of Doctor Who walked past them. The intu Braehead mall seemed to have been transported to a galaxy far, far away, as shoppers met with the sight of characters from all kinds of films, TV shows and comics having a…
Read MoreCelebrating 40 years of the Beechgrove Garden
For 40 years, the team at the Beechgrove Garden have been advising us on how to keep our gardens in shape. It has been a perennial fixture on the mantlepiece of Scottish life since 1978. To celebrate, BBC Scotland is to screen The Beechgrove Garden Story next Sunday, 19 August. Old video tapes have been…
Read MoreThe secrets of global crime with McMafia writer
The writer of hit BBC series McMafia is coming to Edinburgh to lift the lid on global organised crime and its corrupt political networks. Based on his best-selling book, McMafia, and the BBC TV drama it inspired, author and award-winning journalist Misha Glenny takes his audience on a tour through the dark depths of world…
Read MoreOn a mission to save Mackintosh’s tea rooms
The woman who rescued one the earlier works of artist and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is to feature in a new TV documentary. BBC Scotland is to show Mackintosh’s Tea Rooms next week, which tell show in 2014, Glasgow businesswoman Celia Sinclair decided that she wanted to rescue the old Willow Tea Rooms on Glasgow’s…
Read MoreChildren’s pup idols are coming to Edinburgh
Ask any young child what their favourite TV show is, and the chances are high that it’s Paw Patrol. Next week, it will be all paws on deck as Edinburgh will be kicking off the UK leg of the Paw Patrol Live – The Great Pirate Adventure global tour begins when they set sail to…
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