Season 24 • Episode 49
LatestRiver City is a television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow. The series primarily centres around the residents of Shieldinch, their houses, flats and apartments and its neighbouring streets, namely Montego Street and which encompasses a pub, bistro, community centre, café and various small businesses, in addition to a subway station and basketball court. The series was originally screened as two half-hour episodes per week. Today, one hour-long episode is broadcast each week - usually Tuesday evenings on BBC One Scotland, repeated Sunday afternoons on either BBC One Scotland or BBC Two Scotland. In Australia, River City is screened 11:00am weekdays on Seven's British-oriented multichannel 7TWO.
Production
Authentic Glasgow locations — you can practically smell the Tennent's.
Writing
Two decades of increasingly unhinged plotlines, bless.
Creator
Stephen Greenhorn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
River City is one of BBC Scotland's longest-running dramas and essentially built the channel's primetime identity.
Stephen Greenhorn also created the stage musical Sunshine on Leith, proving he's obsessed with Scottish working-class stories.
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