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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2003.

## Events

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* 6 January – Scottish and Grampian adopt the celebrity idents package, albeit with their own logos attached and with idents featuring a lot more Scottish personalities alongside those of ITV1.
* 27 April – Scottish soap High Road ends after 23 years and over 1,700 episodes. The series airs in some English regions until 2004.
* 1 May – Television coverage of the 2003 Scottish Parliament general election.
* 17 December – BBC Scotland will not pursue the idea of a Scottish Six news programme, following a major review of output which indicated that a majority of viewers are satisfied with the status quo.[1]

## Debuts

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### BBC

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* 29 October – Blue Heaven (2003)
* Unknown – The Karen Dunbar Show[2]

## Television series

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* Scotsport (1957–2008)[3]
* Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
* Scotland Today (1972–2009)
* Sportscene (1975–present)
* The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
* Grampian Today (1980–2009)
* Taggart (1983–2010)[4]
* Crossfire (1984–2004)
* Win, Lose or Draw (1990–2004)
* Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)[5]
* Monarch of the Glen (2000–2005)[6]
* Balamory (2002–2005)[7]
* Jeopardy (2002–2004)
* Still Game (2002–2007; 2016–2019)[8]
* River City (2002–present)

## Ending this year

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* 27 April – High Road (1980–2003)[9]
* 3 December – Blue Heaven (2003)
* Unknown – Live Floor Show (2002–2003)

## Deaths

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* 26 November – Gordon Reid, 64, actor

## See also

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* 2003 in Scotland

## References

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1. ^ "'Scottish Six' idea dropped". BBC News. BBC. 17 December 2003. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
2. ^ "The Scotsman Sessions #192: Karen Dunbar". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
3. ^ Haynes, Richard (17 November 2016). BBC Sport in Black and White. Springer. p. 1\. ISBN 978-1-137-45501-7.
4. ^ McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27\. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
5. ^ "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
6. ^ Eames, Tom (6 September 2017). "Monarch of the Glen cast - where are they now?". Digital Spy. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
7. ^ Farley, Fidelma; Murray, Jonathan; Stoneman, Rod (14 January 2009). Scottish Cinema Now. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 130\. ISBN 978-1-4438-0413-4.
8. ^ "Still Game comedy duo say Jack and Victor will not be back". BBC News. 15 February 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
9. ^ "Popular Scottish TV shows you'll remember". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

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