{"id":550270,"date":"2026-04-25T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550270\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:47:20","slug":"river-city-films-last-ever-scenes-after-24-years-on-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550270\/","title":{"rendered":"River City films last ever scenes after 24 years on the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC said that cancelling River City reflected a significant change in audience behaviour away from long-running series and towards shorter runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC is concentrating its budget on major drama productions set across Scotland, starting with three new series \u2013 Counsels, Grams and The Young Team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is on top of returning dramas such as Rebus, Shetland, Granite Harbour and Vigil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since the announcement last year, other new dramas from Scotland include Sutherland, Half Man and Mint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Giving evidence at the Scottish Parliament about BBC Scotland&#8217;s drama investment strategy, BBC Scotland&#8217;s Director Hayley Valentine said that the &#8220;cost per viewer&#8221; of producing the show was now much higher as audience figures had declined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told Holyrood&#8217;s culture committee that she didn&#8217;t take the decision to end the show lightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC said that cancelling River City reflected a significant change in audience behaviour away from long-running series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-550270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}