Aug 31, 2026 · 24 min · 8 segments
**In this special episode of Screen Check, we hear from some of the team behind River City as the long-running BBC Scotland soap comes to an end.** **Jamie and Ashley speak to members of the crew…
Martin McCardieGuest
Adair MurrayGuestConnorGuest
Jamie MackinlayHost
Ashley DickHostEmmaGuestCameronGuest
I started writing for the show in 2005, and I think I've probably written about 100 episodes of the show, going from when it was half hours into then, when it was hours.
as Lenny Murdoch's right-hand man, a guy called Bron, who I think is still in jail.
Then I was writing for the show again and working in the story office again as a story advisor when the exec at the time said, have you thought of producing for the show because you've done everything else? And...
So I did, and I was a block producer on the show for maybe three or four years before being the series producer.
How does it feel sort of being the last ever exec producer on River City? Well,
No, I think it's, you know, I feel as if I'm representing all the other people who have been here and who have done it and there's an awful lot of people in various different roles here that are very close to the show so you feel a responsibility to make sure you do the right things for them.
yeah and are you excited with the sort of ending we've got in store for everyone I think
the ending's great I think the last episode is so well written it's written by a writer called Johnny McKnight who's became one of the real mainstays of the show action packed and emotional and I think it's a fair send off for River City
Yeah, how do you personally sort of feel about the show coming to end, especially having been on it for nearly, you know, the full time, really, since 2005?
Yeah, I'm very sad it's finishing, obviously, and I think it's more to do with the people who work here than anything else.
the pathways involved, the amount of young women directors we've been able to bring through and writers, the amount of people from the local area in Dumbarton that we've been able to bring into the industry that wouldn't have thought of coming into the industry.
Those pathways, as long as those pathways are held open in another way, I would be happy with that.
When River City came in, the High Road just finished around about that time, so it Scotland's had a returning soap for a very, very long time.
I started writing for the show in 2005, and I think I've probably written about 100 episodes of the show, going from when it was half hours into then, when it was hours.
as Lenny Murdoch's right-hand man, a guy called Bron, who I think is still in jail.
Then I was writing for the show again and working in the story office again as a story advisor when the exec at the time said, have you thought of producing for the show because you've done everything else? And...
So I did, and I was a block producer on the show for maybe three or four years before being the series producer.
How does it feel sort of being the last ever exec producer on River City? Well,
No, I think it's, you know, I feel as if I'm representing all the other people who have been here and who have done it and there's an awful lot of people in various different roles here that are very close to the show so you feel a responsibility to make sure you do the right things for them.
yeah and are you excited with the sort of ending we've got in store for everyone I think
the ending's great I think the last episode is so well written it's written by a writer called Johnny McKnight who's became one of the real mainstays of the show action packed and emotional and I think it's a fair send off for River City
Yeah, how do you personally sort of feel about the show coming to end, especially having been on it for nearly, you know, the full time, really, since 2005?
Yeah, I'm very sad it's finishing, obviously, and I think it's more to do with the people who work here than anything else.
the pathways involved, the amount of young women directors we've been able to bring through and writers, the amount of people from the local area in Dumbarton that we've been able to bring into the industry that wouldn't have thought of coming into the industry.
Those pathways, as long as those pathways are held open in another way, I would be happy with that.
When River City came in, the High Road just finished around about that time, so it Scotland's had a returning soap for a very, very long time.
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