2001 in Scottish television

Events

February

• 23 February – Skyline Productions is commissioned to produce Rose's Patch for BBC One, a 60-minute detective comedy set in Glasgow.

March

• 30 March – The nightly Scottish opt-out of BBC Choice, BBC Choice Scotland, ends and shortly after, BBC Two's variants for Scotland are made available to digital viewers for the first time.

June

• 7 – 8 June – Television coverage of the 2001 general election.

July

• 27 July – The digital channel S2 closes following a deal with ITV Digital to screen ITV2 in Scotland.

August

• 11 August
  • ITV in England and Wales changes its name to ITV1, due to the growing number of other ITV services, including ITV2, ITV Digital, and the ITV Sport Channel, which launches on the same day. STV and Grampian are among the channels to retain their pre-ITV1 identities.
  • BBC Scotland's Saturday afternoon football results show is renamed Sportscene Results. It also becomes a programme in its own right as its predecessor, Afternoon Sportscene, had been an opt-out from *Grandstand'''s *Final Score'' segment.

September

• 1 September – 40th anniversary of Border Television.
• 30 September
  • 40th anniversary of Grampian Television.
  • Border Television is taken over by Granada plc.

Television series

• Scotsport (1957–2008)
• Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
• Scotland Today (1972–2009)
• Sportscene (1975–present)
• The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
• Grampian Today (1980–2009)
• High Road (1980–2003)
• Taggart (1983–2010)
• Crossfire (1984–2004)
• Win, Lose or Draw (1990–2004)
• Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)
• Chewin' the Fat (1999–2002)
• Harry and the Wrinklies (1999–2002)
• Monarch of the Glen (2000–2005)

Ending this year

• 10 December – Tinsel Town (2000–2001)
• 20 December – Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)

Deaths

• 17 January – Robert Robertson, 70, actor
• 12 June – Joseph Brady, 72, actor
• 18 August – Tom Watson, 68, actor

References

References

1. (23 February 2001). "New Detective Series For BBC Scotland". Broadcast.
2. (17 November 2016). "BBC Sport in Black and White". Springer.
3. (6 August 2025). "Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary".
4. (13 February 2020). "Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities". Springer Nature.
5. (14 October 2016). "Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box". Taylor & Francis.
6. "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?".
7. (5 January 2021). "Chewin' The Fat too offensive to be made today admits Ford Kiernan".
8. (6 September 2017). "Monarch of the Glen cast - where are they now?".