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
1970s
1990s
- ''Eòrpa''
2000s
2010s
- Scotland Tonight
- Shetland
- Scot Squad
- Two Doors Down
- Molly and Mack
- The Nine
- Debate Night
- ''A View from the Terrace''
Ending this year
- ''Only an Excuse?''
Deaths
- 9 July – Johnny Beattie, 93, actor
- 15 July – Maurice Roëves, 83, actor
- 26 October – John Duncanson, 80, broadcaster