2006 in Scottish television

Events

• January – It is announced that Scottish Screen will amalgamate with the Scottish Arts Council to form the newly created Creative Scotland.
• 2 March – STV Group plc announce that Scottish Television will be known onscreen as STV. Grampian will also rebrand.
• 30 May – Scottish Television becomes known as STV Central and Grampian Television as STV North.
• July – Launch of the STV website stv.tv.
• 29 August – SMG officially rejects a merger offer from Northern Irish ITV franchise holder UTV. The merger approach would have given SMG shareholders a 52% stake in the combined company.{{cite news | access-date = 1 May 2006

Debuts

BBC

• 10 February – That Was The Team That Was on BBC One (2006–2008)

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) (rebranded as North Tonight)
• Taggart (1983–2010)
• Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)
• Still Game (2002–2007; 2016–2019)
• River City (2002–present)
• Politics Now (2004–2011)
• VideoGaiden (2005–2008)
• The Adventure Show (2005–present)

Ending this year

• 7 April – The Karen Dunbar Show (2003–2006)

Deaths

• 6 July – Tom Weir, 91, cricketer, author, and broadcaster

References

References

1. (17 November 2016). "BBC Sport in Black and White". Springer.
2. (6 August 2025). "Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary".
3. (14 October 2016). "Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box". Taylor & Francis.
4. (31 December 2020). "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?".
5. (15 February 2019). "Still Game comedy duo say Jack and Victor will not be back".
6. "The Scotsman Sessions #192: Karen Dunbar".