BBC’s Coast to Coast Food Festival in Fife 16/04/2023 Edith Bowman returns to her roots in Fife, Scotland with Colin Murray and Sean Fletcher |
Martin Compston's Scottish Fling in Dundee, Fife and Angus 16/04/2023 Martin Compston and his friend Phil MacHugh focused on Dundee, Fife and Angus in their east coast travels to challenge expectations and reveal the surprising side of some well-known places. |
BBC’s Hairy Bikers Go Local in Fife 06/04/2023 The TV chefs zoomed into Fife to discover its wonderful chefs, food producers and produce. |
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Join us for Screen Ready 2022 online 15/11/2022 Are you a location or business that wants to work with film and TV production? Perhaps you already do. Everything is needed like locations, catering accommodation, transport and beyond. Join our free morning event online via Zoom. |
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Major new ITV crime drama, Karen Pirie has received huge acclaim. 01/11/2022 Set and filmed in St Andrews and wider Fife, Karen Pirie is a cold-case detective drama that brings Val McDermid’s novel, A Distant Echo, to the screen. |
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150th Open Golf - Mercedes brings Collin Morikawa and Claret Jug 12/07/2022 Global sports and production company IMG filmed at St. Andrews and the Fife coast to show current champion Collin Morikawa returning the prized trophy ahead of this year's Open. |
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22/05/2022 Presenter Iagan MacNeil walks the walk - with stops along the 117 mile route from the Kincardine Bridge on the Forth coast to Newburgh on the Tay. |
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Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland - found in Perthshire 18/05/2022 Hollywood actors Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming roll back the decades and return to their Scottish roots. |
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10/11/2021 BBC's Landward shines a light on Fife's Silverburn Park. |
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Pram Snatcher takes coveted place on Edinburgh Film Festival Talent Lab. 03/05/2021 Congratulations to the Pram Snatcher team with a promotional short filmed on location at Perthshire’s Horn restaurant and café. |
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How do I look? Making a fashion statement in Dundee, Fife and Perthshire. 30/04/2021 Style comes to, and emerges from, Scotland’s Dundee, Fife and Perthshire with Vogue and designer label fashion shoots, an exhibition saluting the legendary 1960’s designer Mary Quant at V&A Dundee, a Netflix designer star and links with that iconic and oh so stylish Beatles Abbey Road photograph. |
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26/04/2021 Welcome back film crews. We're looking forward to helping you with what you need and with working safely in delightful Dundee, fabulous Fife and perfect Perthshire. |
25/04/2021 Annex added to the Fife Tay Production Code and contributing to parity across Scotland and the UK. |
24/04/2020 Help and support for all kinds of businesses and self-employed including creative, digital and screen based in Fife and Tayside. |
TayScreen response to Covid-19 30/03/2020 We are following the lead and guidance of our partner Councils, Creative Scotland and Screen Scotland as also informed by the Scottish and UK Governments on Covid-19. This is to highlight potential sources of help and further information including TayScreen. |
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17/03/2020 Regretfully, due to the current COVID-19 situation, we have taken the decision to cancel Screen Ready 2020 planned for 6th May. We will look to re-schedule this event at a future appropriate time. Thank you very much for all your continued support. |
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05/01/2020 BBC tech show Click Live from V&A Dundee - check out the highlights |
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Golden Globe winner HBO Succession - Season 2 in Dundee & Perthshire Scotland 05/01/2020 Golden Globes for media dynasty drama, Succession and Dundee born lead, Brian Cox. For Season 2 the show headed to iconic film locations V&A Dundee and Gleneagles, Perthshire. Scotland based episodes debuted in September on HBO, Sky Atlantic and Now TV. The 77th Golden Globes were on Sunday 5th January 2020. |
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08/12/2019 Fife, Scotland best-selling, crime author, Val McDermid’s Dundee based TV drama set to air Monday 9th December on UKTV's Alibi Channel. |
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BBC's Antiques Road Show in Dundee 19/09/2019 Sunday 22nd September sees the first broadcast of the iconic show from the V&A Dundee. It’s on the UK BBC1 at 8pm UK time. Photographer Moira Lavigillante went behind the scenes for TayScreen. |
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28/07/2016 New book - Breaking Into UK Film and TV Drama by industry insider Matt Gallagher. |
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Dundee, Fife & Tayside to get local TV 08/05/2015 UK broadcasting agency Ofcom has awarded the licence to STV working in partnership with Abertay University |
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Local TV- pilot areas announced 09/08/2011 Fife and Tayside one of 60 potential areas for local TV announced by UK Government |
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Fiona Hyslop on broadcasting in Scotland and local TV 16/06/2011 Latest from Scottish Parliament |
Now Ok for media interests to own other media interests 15/06/2011 New order removes all local cross-media ownership rules |
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06/06/2011 UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport updates plan and publishes results of March 2011 consultation |
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Local TV - a view from South of Scotland 03/05/2011 WOULD a localised television service be a viable option in the south of Scotland? Report from Dumfries Courier |
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Brand Scotland or Brand Britain? 01/02/2011 Help shape the future of Scottish local TV - free event in Perth on 21st February 2011 |
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Action plan to make local TV a reality 19/01/2011 Government aims to award licences by the end of 2012 and wants initial expressions of interest by 1st March 2011 |
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Shott MyCompany Quarterly Report into local television published 14/12/2010 Nicholas Shott?s MyCompany Quarterly Report into the conditions necessary for financially viable local TV stations |
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Greg Dyke to chair exec group consulting on local TV plans 22/10/2010 Greg Dyke has agreed to chair a committee that will feed into the government?s local TV plans. |
Local TV - BBC and licence fee support 20/10/2010 Despite the crunching affect of the public spending review described by some executives as ?brutal?, the BBC is to make capital expenditures from the licence fee on local TV |
Let's explore local TV potential 14/10/2010 Jeremy Hunt?s plan would create hundreds of jobs across the country, writes Peter Williams in Broadcast 14th october 2010 |
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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt backs local TV stations 28/09/2010 Plans for a new "landscape of local TV services" in the UK would help "strengthen local democracy", Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. Source: BBC |
Hunt dismisses idea of forcing broadcasters to deliver local content 28/09/2010 At the Royal Television Society, Hunt dismisses idea of forcing ITV, C4 and C5 to deliver local content |
Interim Findings Local Television in the UK 24/09/2010 Nicholas Shott has provided Jeremy Hunt with his initial findings on the necessary conditions for commercially viable local TV in the UK. |
08/06/2010 New plans to ensure a vibrant local media market in the future announced - Jeremy Hunt sets up panel under Nicholas Shott to MyCompany Quarterly Report later in 2010 |
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Two consortia in running for Scottish IFNC 15/01/2010 Successful Bidders include consortium involving Dundee's DC Thomson |
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IFNC Selection Panel announced 11/01/2010 Richard Hooper appointed chair and Stuart Purvis to act as Panel Adviser |
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Independently Funded News Consortia 09/12/2009 UK DCMS announces pilot scheme for news - consortia invited to submit expressions of interest |