Still Game is back after nine years
After nine years, BBC Scotland’s iconic comedy series Still Game will return to BBC One this year.
After a nine year hiatus, BBC Scotland’s iconic comedy series Still Game will return to BBC One this year with a new six-part series starring all the original cast including writers and stars, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill.
The new series will film over the summer months at BBC Scotland’s Dumbarton Studios in a purpose built set – the first time the comedy has filmed there – and will air on BBC One later in 2016.
Writers and stars of Still Game, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill will reunite to play pensioners Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade for the sitcom which last aired on BBC One in 2007.
The new series will also see the return of Still Game favourites Jane McCarry as Isa, Sanjeev Kohli as Navid, Gavin Mitchell as Bobby, Paul Riley as Winston and Mark Cox as Tam.
Ford Kiernan is thrilled Still Game will make its TV return soon: “We’re super happy to come back with the show - we had no idea how much it had been missed until we played the Hydro! Myself and Greg are really excited about getting the gang together again and we are putting our all in to make our fantastic audience feel like we’ve never been away.”
Greg Hemphill adds: "We are thrilled to be given this opportunity, with the full support of the BBC Network, to don the bunnets once more! On behalf of all the cast, I'd like to thank Still Game fans for keeping the show alive after all these years.
"We'll save a seat for you in the Clansman."
Following a mammoth 21-night run of live shows at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro Arena in 2015, audiences have been waiting in anticipation for Still Game to make its TV return.
The original run of the sitcom, which stars Kiernan and Hemphill as evergreen Glaswegian pensioners Jack and Victor, aired for six series between 2002 and 2007, transferring from BBC Scotland to BBC Two.
The new series of Still Game will air on BBC One network when it returns later this year.