The Gold S2 nominated for RTS Scotland Awards 2026!
Patrick Harkins has been nominated for an RTS Scotland Award in the Director: Scripted category for The Gold S2.
Congratulations to Patrick and the whole team behind The Gold S2, which has also received nominations in the Actor – Male category for Jack Lowden and the Writer category for Neil Forsyth.
These awards recognise the extraordinary talent, creativity, and craft behind Scottish-made television.
The awards ceremony will be held at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow on Friday 12th June.
All episodes of The Gold are available to watch now on BBC iPlayer.
The Dry S3 reviews
Nancy Harris’ award-winning comedy-drama The Dry is halfway through its third and final season. Here’s what some of the critics have been saying...
The Irish Times:
“Harris’s script is agreeably wry and impressively relentless”
“each 30-minute episode clips by – helped along by some genuinely compelling twists”
“it’s great fun to sit down and watch it pour another (non-alcoholic) glass of acutely observed social comedy”
The Journal:
“The Dry avoids wrapping things up in a way that feels forced or unearned.”
“that’s what makes The Dry such a touching watch: the sense that while the family’s dramas can be at times ludicrous, they are nonetheless very real.”
“replete with great jokes, but it’s the serious moments that linger after the final episode”
Irish Independent:
“The plot is really terrific. The action rolls on at a very sharp pace, throwing out surprises and twists as it goes.”
Episodes air every Thursday on RTÉ One and all eight episodes available now on RTÉ Player.
First reviews for I’m Not Being Funny!
Piers Black’s new play I’m Not Being Funny opened at Bush Theatre last week and the reviews are in:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½
“By the end, the play leaves the audience feeling emotionally drained in the best way—laughing, uncomfortable, and deeply moved all at once.” – London Theatre Reviews
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Black’s writing is a delicious concoction of humour, wit, heart, emotion and intensity.” – Theatre Weekly
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“I’m Not Being Funny lands on something both honest and generous”
– All That Dazzles
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“Piers Black’s writing navigates the difficult balance between humour and grief with real humanity”
– Everything Theatre
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Poignant, funny, and fiercely human”
– Red Bus Londinium
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– The Reviews Hub
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– LondonTheatre1
The play runs until 13th June. Tickets are available now on the Bush Theatre’s website.
Sadie Pearson has been selected as one of the writers for All The Rage, a multi-layered theatrical event spanning 15 spaces within the repurposed office building at Theatre Deli.
Conceived by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, All The Rage is a site-responsive production is an urgent collective response to the release of the Epstein Files. Created by more than seventy female-identifying and non-binary playwrights and artists, it confronts institutional silence, cultural complicity and the enduring history of misogyny.
The event will take place at 7pm-9pm on Thursday 11th, Friday 12th and Saturday 13th June, with an extra performance from 2pm-4pm on the Saturday.
Tickets are available now on Theatre Deli’s website.
Sadie is a Mancunian playwright. She is currently developing work on the Criterion New Writing Scheme. Her first full-length work VENUS: The Body was longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwrighting 2025 and is now being developed through their Future Lights Scheme. Her short play Man Hater Eater will make its London premiere at Union Theatre on 25th May.
Nancy Harris and Cara Loftus are among six top Irish screenwriters interviewed as part of Deadline’s Local to Global series in Dublin, held in association with Screen Ireland. In the interview, the writers discuss their work, their process and Ireland’s film and TV landscape.
Nancy, on her award-winning series The Dry – the third and final series is currently airing on RTE: “Because a lot of my start was in London, it was interesting to me how coming back and setting something in Dublin was so freeing because it was second nature,” she said. “I understood the humour and I felt like I knew the world on a really naturalistic, gritty, detailed emotional level. And it just felt free because it felt like home.”
Cara talked about the motivations behind writing her award winning debut feature film Spilt Milk, which is in Irish cinemas now: “Looking at the past and looking at patterns that tend to repeat themselves across history, across Irish history, was really important to me,” she said. “Also, I had big questions about community and individualism in Ireland and how you find community, and where you can find that.”
Watch the full 40-minute interview now on Deadline.
Eva O’Connor’s new play For Dolores for Fishamble: The New Play Company will have its world premiere this summer in Limerick, Galway, Dún Laoghaire and Edinburgh.
It will open at Belltable in Limerick (9th – 11th July), then move to Mick Lally Theatre in Galway (14th – 18th July) as part of the Galway International Arts Festival. After that it will head to Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire (22nd – 26th July) before a month-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe (6th – 30th August), where it will be performed at Traverse Theatre as part of the Culture Ireland Showcase.
For Dolores is about friendship, motherhood and coming to terms with your worst mistakes. Two friends, Mo (the Scottish one) and Réaltín (the Irish one), are like twin stars in obsessive orbit, it’s a friendship, a rivalry and an adventure. Risk is a delicious pleasure: until it all explodes in the blink of an eye.
Tickets are available now for Limerick and Dún Laoghaire, and tickets for Galway go on sale on Friday 8th May.
I’m Not Being Funny premieres tomorrow!
Piers Black’s play I’m Not Being Funny has its world premiere tomorrow at Bush Theatre.
Billie has committed herself, and husband Peter, to do a stand-up comedy night. So they’re locking themselves in their living room until they’ve got a ‘tight five’, delving through their past for material. But some jokes hurt and laughter isn't always the best medicine.
The play will run from 7th May to 13th June. Tickets are sold out for tomorrow night and are selling fast for the rest of the run. Visit the Bush Theatre’s website to get one before it’s too late!
Stephen Greenhorn has written a 30-minute monologue which will be performed as part of The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh’s Lyceum at Home series. Stephen is one of four leading Scottish voices commissioned to write for the project.
After a run of intimate performances in homes across Edinburgh, all four monologues will be performed on stage at The Lyceum from 18th – 20th June.
Tickets are available now on The Lyceum’s website!
Cara Loftus and Dan Muirden have both written episodes of The Hardacres S2, which is set to premiere on Thursday 14th May at 9pm on 5.
Cara has written Episodes 1 and 5, while Dan has written Episode 4.
Season 2 will follow the Hardacres heading into 1895 as they continue to try and find their feet after rising from poverty to wealth and while navigating modern changes in daily life.
The first season is available to stream on 5 now!
Stephen Greenhorn is writing an episode of Channel 5’s upcoming reboot of Monarch of the Glen, which has just been announced.
The reboot will follow high-flying London lawyer Isla Campbell, who must find a way to save her family’s crumbling Highland estate after inheriting a million-pound debt from her recently deceased father.
The series is being produced by Ecosse Films and Masterpiece PBC, in association with Northern Ireland Screen and Banijay Rights.
Stephen Greenhorn has been a professional dramatist for theatre, radio and television since 1989. He created the popular long running series River City for BBC Scotland and his tv credits include Doctor Who, Dalgliesh and Dept. Q. Stephen also wrote the award-winning musical Sunshine on Leith for both stage and screen.
I’m Not Being Funny premieres in one week!
Piers Black’s play I’m Not Being Funny has its world premiere at Bush Theatre, one week from today!
Billie has signed up herself, and husband Peter, to do a stand-up comedy night. So they’re locking themselves in their living room until they’ve got a ‘tight five’. With the clock ticking and nothing but a baby monitor for an audience, Billie and Peter wrestle with the spotlight as questions about their future are forced to the surface.
I’m Not Being Funny is about hope, endings and how to survive if a knock knock joke hits you in the gut. It will be performed at Bush Theatre from 7th May to 13th June, its run extended due to popular demand. It will then transfer to Bristol Old Vic’s Weston Studio from 23rd to 27th June.
Tickets are available now on Bush Theatre’s website!
Jamie Johnson FC Series 4 announced!
Matt Sinclair and Lucy Guy have written episodes of Jamie Johnson FC Series 4, which kicks off on Wednesday 6th May – one week from today.
Matt wrote Episodes 7 and 10 and Lucy and Matt wrote Episode 2.
This series sees life at Hawx United Academy turned upside down as they take a leaf out of Wrexham’s book and invite a documentary crew inside for a behind-the-scenes look, bringing the players into the spotlight.
The series will air on CBBC and BBC iPlayer, with new episodes released every Wednesday and Thursday.
Both Matt and Lucy have written extensively for children’s TV. Matt’s credits include Wolfblood (CBBC), Worst Witch (CBBC/ZDF/Netflix) and Silverpoint (Zodiak Kids). Lucy’s credits include Hank Zipzer (Kindle/CBBC), So Awkward (Series 2 to 6) and Girl Troop vs Aliens (Lime Pictures/CBBC).
