Graphics and titles were developed by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and were gradually rolled out across the whole of BBC News, including a similar design for regional news starting with Newsroom South East and the three BBC Nations – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Along with the UK national radio stations, Radio Scotland and the Gaelic language service BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is also broadcast, despite few speakers residing in the city.

In the 1980s comedian Andy Cameron presented the Hogmanay show on BBC Scotland while Peter Morrison presented a show called " A Highland Hogmanay " on STV / Grampian.

Since 1993, the programmes that have been mainstays on BBC Scotland on Hogmanay have been Hogmanay Live and Jonathan Watson's football-themed sketch comedy show, Only an Excuse?

" BBC Scotland broadcast the video on 29 May 2007.

* Manu ( River City ), a character on a BBC Scotland soap opera

* The Scheme, a BBC Scotland television documentary series

In 2002, as the ratings continued to fall for Scottish serial High Road ( formerly Take The High Road ), BBC Scotland launched River City, which proved popular and effectively replaced High Road when it was cancelled in 2003.

A sketch in the BBC comedy series Not the Nine O ' Clock News showed Scotland Yard's rotating sign being hand-cranked by the Commissioner.

In the 2010 BBC television drama Sherlock, many of the characters such as DI Lestrade, DI Dimmock, Sgt Donovan and Anderson work for Scotland Yard.

* Guest star in the 3rd episode of the award-winning BBC Scotland drama series Takin ' Over the Asylum ( 1994 )

* ' Snowball Earth ' theory melted BBC News online ( 2002-03-06 ) report on findings by geoscientists at the University of St Andrews, Scotland that casts doubt on the Snowball Earth hypothesis due to evidence of sedimentary material, which could only have been derived from floating ice on open oceanic waters.

Regional stations include BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales.

Shortening their name to " The Pogues " ( partly due to BBC censorship following complaints from Gaelic speakers in Scotland ) they released their first album Red Roses for Me on Stiff Records that October.

Category: BBC Scotland television programmes

* BBC Alba ( TV channel ), the Scottish Gaelic department of BBC Scotland

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

* Justine Thatcher, a character in the BBC Scotland drama Monarch of the Glen

Dumfries is home to one of the 11 BBC studios in Scotland.

* James Cohen, BBC Trust Audience Council for Scotland, member.

* BBC Radio Scotland: News, music, sport and talk from Scotland

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

Category: BBC radio comedy programmes

One of his early comedy writing projects was Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Rory McGrath for BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

* Clone ( TV series ), a 2008 BBC comedy series

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show ( 1951 – 60 ).

In October 2011, BBC Four premiered the made-for-TV comedy film Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.

An example of a comedy film that targets a more general audience is Strange Company's Tum Raider, produced for the BBC in 2004.

Although this project was eventually abandoned, it brought Palin and Jones together as a writing duo and led them to write comedy for various BBC programmes, such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Billy Cotton Bandshow, and The Illustrated Weekly Hudd.

* 1951 – British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.

In 2001 and 2002 Whitehouse wrote and performed in two series of the BBC comedy drama Happiness, in which he played a voice-over actor with a mid-life crisis.

Whitehouse wrote, produced and appeared with Chris Langham in the 2005 comedy drama Help, also for the BBC.

The comedy evolved from the BBC Radio 4 show Down the Line.

The BBC also aired science fiction comedy series such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ) by Douglas Adams and Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99, 2009 ).

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

Milligan's next major TV venture was the sketch comedy series The World of Beachcomber ( 1968 ), made in colour for BBC 2 ; however, it is believed all 19 episodes are now lost.

* The second episode of the BBC Radio comedy series 1835, entitled " Haircut, Sir?

Category: BBC radio comedy programmes

Hoffman will also direct Quartet, a BBC Films comedy starring Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay.

* I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, or Clue, a BBC radio comedy panel game

In the 1960s the BBC produced the earliest of Richard Waring's domestic comedies, Marriage Lines ( 1961 – 66 ), with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales, and a then-rare workplace comedy with The Rag Trade ( 1961 – 63, 1977 – 78 ).

Many British comedy series are aired on the ABC, which is the Australian equivalent of the BBC.