2001 in Scottish television

none December 2023 2001 Scottish television This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2001. Events February 23 February – Skyline Productions is commissioned to produce Rose's Patch for BBC One, a 60-minute detective comedy set in Glasgow.http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/new-detective-series-for-bbc-scotland/1170455.article New Detective Series For BBC Scotland Broadcast 23 February 2001 11 March 2014 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 seriesScotsport (1957–2008)Haynes Richard BBC Sport in Black and White 17 November 2016 Springer 978-1-137-45501-7 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZM-GDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 enReporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)Scotland Today (1972–2009)Sportscene (1975–present)Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko BBC Sport 20 August 2025 6 August 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250811222945/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko 11 August 2025 liveThe Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)Grampian Today (1980–2009)High Road (1980–2003)Brown Ian Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities 13 February 2020 Springer Nature 978-3-030-39407-3 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=gXvQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 enTaggart (1983–2010)McElroy Ruth Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box 14 October 2016 Taylor & Francis 978-1-317-16096-0 27 https://books.google.com/books?id=yColDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 enCrossfire (1984–2004)Win, Lose or Draw (1990–2004)Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18979762.excuse-bbc1-scotland-review/ HeraldScotland 4 November 2021 enChewin' the Fat (1999–2002)MacDonald Stuart Chewin' The Fat too offensive to be made today admits Ford Kiernan https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/chewin-fat-offensive-made-today-19563774 GlasgowLive 20 November 2021 en 5 January 2021Harry and the Wrinklies (1999–2002)Monarch of the Glen (2000–2005)Eames Tom Monarch of the Glen cast - where are they now? https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a837380/monarch-of-the-glen-cast-where-are-they-now/ Digital Spy 20 November 2021 6 September 2017 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 See also 2001 in Scotland References 2001 Category:Television in Scotland by year Category:2000s in Scottish television