New comedy shows unveiled in 91Èȱ¬ÌýScotland's season launch
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91Èȱ¬ Scotland is screening three new comedy pilots as part of its seasonal programming which is announced today.
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The new shows – Burnistoun, Limmy's Show and One Star – are among a diverse range of exciting new content from comedy, entertainment, drama, children's, factual and current affairs which was unveiled at the event.
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Donalda MacKinnon, Head of Programmes, 91Èȱ¬ Scotland, says: "Our in-house teams and our partners in the independent sector will be delivering fantastic content over the coming weeks.
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"Audiences are at the heart of what we do and we believe that our upcoming schedules will provide entertaining and engaging content for our viewers and listeners across Scotland."
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One Star, a 3D animation, is set in the year 2050 when space tourism is booming. The One Star, the worst B&B in space, is populated by strange, exotic, sometimes dangerous, alien tourists, human travellers and things unknown.
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Robert Florence and Iain Connell write and perform a brand new sketch show featuring the residents of a fictional Scottish town named Burnistoun.
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The town has its own newspaper, radio station and ice-cream van where sparks and nuggets fly as the boys who own it have a major family argument.
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Comedian, Limmy, makes the jump from the internet to TV in a new comedy half-hour, Limmy's Show, that combines character pieces, cutting observations, visuals and sketches.
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Also on the comedy slate is No Holds Bard, a 60-minute comedy drama celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns.
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The star-studded Scottish cast includes Ashley Jensen, Bill Paterson and Denis Lawson.
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No Holds Bard follows the lives of competitors as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness – the trophy awarded to the champion in Burns recital.
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Two six-part studio-based sitcoms for 91Èȱ¬ One network will also air over the autumn/winter period.
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The Old Guys stars Roger Lloyd Pack and Clive Swift as two elderly delinquents and Caroline Quentin will star in Life Of Riley, which centres around second-time newly-weds with their dysfunctional family.
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The season includes three network dramas from 91Èȱ¬ÌýScotland.
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God On Trial is a 90-minute drama for 91Èȱ¬ Two which takes as its starting point the story that prisoners in Auschwitz, their faith tested by their suffering, put God on trial; Purves + Pekkala, set in New Town, Edinburgh, proves there are some neighbourhoods people would kill to live in; and P.A.s, for 91Èȱ¬ Three, follows the fortunes of four fabulous personal assistants in the City.
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In November, Scotland's History, a major new project, spanning television, radio, online and events, begins.
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Presented by Neil Oliver, the series, which will transmit on 91Èȱ¬ One Scotland and 91Èȱ¬ Two network, is the catalyst for a raft of 91Èȱ¬ Radio Scotland programming, ranging in subject from what wasn't taught about Scottish history at school to the differing historic perspectives from the Lowlands and Highlands and a selection of audio walks.
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Also on Radio Scotland, there is a range of programming marking the Burns anniversary, including the Burns Sampler, an introduction to the station's three-year project of recording every Burns poem with Scotland's leading actors across the world to create an audio archive available to everyone.
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Among new documentaries for 91Èȱ¬ Two Scotland are Thatcher And The Scots, which sifts out the myth from the reality of the former Prime Minister's often strained relationship with Scotland, and The Adventures Of Don Roberto, an account of the colourful life of Robert Cunninghame Graham, a founder of the Scottish Labour Party and the first President of the Scottish National Party.
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91Èȱ¬ Scotland Press Office
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