2024 in Scottish television
This is a list of events taking place in 2024 relating to Scottish television.
Events
January
- 1 January – STV's Bringing in the Bells is hosted by Alex Norton, Blythe Duff, Martin Compston and others to see in the New Year.
June
- 4 June – 2024 United Kingdom general election: The first leaders debate takes place in Scotland, with the leaders of Scotland's four main political parties taking part in a debate on STV.
- 11 June – BBC Scotland airs an election debate featuring the leaders of Scotland's five main political parties: John Swinney, Douglas Ross, Anas Sarwar, Alex Cole-Hamilton and Lorna Slater.
July
- 1 July – Steve Carson is to step down as Head of Multi-Platform Commissioning at BBC Scotland in September, in order to take up a senior role at Irish broadcaster RTÉ.
August
- 6 August – Ofcom approves planned changes to the BBC Scotland television channel that will see cutbacks to its news, with its hour-long 9pm weekday programme The Nine replaced by a 30 minute programme at 7pm.
December
- 9 December – BBC Scotland announces the launch of two new news programmes in early 2025: Reporting Scotland: News at Seven, a weeknight news bulletin presented by Laura Maciver and Amy Irons on the BBC Scotland channel from 6 January, and the Scotcast podcast with Martin Geissler launching on 13 January.
- 22 December – BBC Scotland announces the end of the Sportscene Results programme which had been a longstanding football results service on BBC One Scotland. From early January, they planned for a new format with results to be delivered by Radio Scotland's Open All Mics team with some visualisation.
Debuts
- 10 September – Salmond and Sturgeon: A Troubled Union on BBC Scotland
Ongoing television programmes
1960s
1970s
1990s
- ''Eòrpa''
2000s
2010s
- Scotland Tonight
- Shetland
- Scot Squad
- Still Game
- Two Doors Down
- The Nine
- Debate Night
- ''A View from the Terrace''
Deaths
- 6 March – Nick Sheridan, 32, Irish journalist and television presenter
- 14 May – Gudrun Ure, 98, actress
- 26 June – Pat Heywood, 92, actress
- 28 July – John Anderson, 92, television referee
- 5 August – Ron Bain, 79, actor
- 9 August – Brian Marjoribanks, 82, Scottish footballer, actor and broadcaster.
- 2 November – Janey Godley, 63, comedian and actress