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 (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Scottish Labour), Alex Cole-Hamilton (Scottish Liberal Democrats) and Lorna Slater (Scottish Greens).
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 Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
1970s Sportscene (1975–present) Landward (1976–present) The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
1990s Eòrpa (1993–present)
2000s River City (2002–2026) The Adventure Show (2005–present) An Là (2008–present) Trusadh (2008–present) STV Rugby (2009–2010; 2011–present) STV News at Six (2009–present)
2010s Scotland Tonight (2011–present) Shetland (2013–present) Scot Squad (2014–present) Still Game (2016–present) Two Doors Down (2016–present) The Nine (2019–present) Debate Night (2019–present) A View from the Terrace (2019–present)
Deaths 6 March – Nick Sheridan, 32, Irish journalist and television presenter (News2day, Reporting Scotland, The Nine) 14 May – Gudrun Ure, 98, actress (Super Gran) 26 June – Pat Heywood, 92, actress (Lucky Feller, Wuthering Heights, Inspector Morse, Root Into Europe) 28 July – John Anderson, 92, television referee (Gladiators) 5 August – Ron Bain, 79, actor (Naked Video) 9 August – Brian Marjoribanks, 82, Scottish footballer (Hibernian), actor and broadcaster (BBC Scotland). 2 November – Janey Godley, 63, comedian (Have I Got News for You) and actress (River City)
See also 2024 in Scotland
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