You can see Ryan Fletcher, who played Vader, in a televised performance of the National Theatre of Scotland's 'Black Watch' production on BBC Two Scotland on Monday 27th August. The performance was recorded in Dingwall and has garnered international acclaim. It follows a documentary on Sunday night which goes behind the scenes of the production and tells the real-life story of Black Watch soldiers who have served in Iraq.
Sunday 26th August - 9pm - BBC Two Scotland - Black Watch : A Soldier's Story
Monday 27th August - 10pm - BBC Two Scotland - Black Watch (play)
Joyce Falconer, who plays Roisin, appeared on MacAulay & Co on Radio Scotland this morning. Click on the following link to listen again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/scotland_aod.shtml?scotland/macaulayandco_fri
A few snippets you might be interested in:
Juan Pablo Di Pace (aka Luca) will play Petros in a new movie adaptation of 'Mamma Mia'. He's appear alongside Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Julie Walters, Bill Nighy and Meryl Streep! We're shaking with excitement as we type :) Find out more on imdb.com.
Joyce Falconer (Roisin) has a one-woman show 'A Guid Scots Tongue' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe next week. She'll perform poetry, songs and parodies at the Greenside Church on Monday 20th, Tuesday 21st and Saturday 25th August.
Summer of '69 at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre stars a few of your favourites - Stephen Purdon (Bob), Gordon McCorkell (Deek) and Julie Coombe (Terri) - and runs until the 25th August.
Jacqueline Leonard, who played Lorraine Wicks in Eastenders (mum to 'Mad Joe') is joining River City tonight as hard-man Lenny's wife, Lydia!
She makes her first appearance in Shieldinch at 8.30pm this evening, when you can see her wrapping Lenny round her little finger. It's nice to see him doing what he's told for a change! As you know, she'll soon be opening a new boutique in town but if you want to know more about what Lydia's about to get up to, click and drag your mouse over the box below for a spoiler.
Lydia meets Tina on Tuesday 21st August but neither has a clue that one spouse killed the other... can they be friends?
You can read about Jacqueline's arrival in some of the press today - Daily Record, Scottish Sun and Scottish Daily Star.
This week's Tuesday episode has moved to 8pm on Thursday. Sorry for the short notice!
Click and drag your mouse over the box below for a wee glimpse of who turns up on Thursday 16th August.
Kelly-Marie arrives in Shieldinch, worried about Jimmy. After a frosty reception, she makes up with Scarlett.
If you want to know if Jimmy survives his accident, then click and drag your mouse over the box below...
Jimmy is left in a coma after joyriders violently knocked him down. Tonight (10th August) Jimmy flickers his eyes a little, which is a good sign, and his heart rate stabilises on Tuesday. We can't tell you any more at this stage!
The boutique competition has now been judged and a winner chosen! Here's the big announcement and a statement from the River City Editorial Team:
"It gives us great pleasure to announce the winning entry as Hola, as suggested by Lesley Milton from Airdrie. We had over 500 entries and we would like to thank everyone who took part.
Choosing a winner has been a difficult job. There were many very good entries, it was great fun going through them all and some really made us giggle! We were impressed by the high standard and fascinated to see how many of you went with a Spanish theme. In the end, we narrowed it down to our favourites – what we thought Lydia might choose herself. We then had to put those suggestions through a process called negative checking. This is done to every name we use on River City. It is a legal requirement, we have to make sure that the names we use along with the details of the character, product or business aren’t too similar to any in real life.
Congratulations to Lesley and thank you to everyone who took part. Keep watching River City and look out for the grand opening of Hola."
You can see Lydia for the first time on Friday 17th August, and we'll let you know when Hola will be revealed on screen!
Thursday 9th August is a really big episode. If you want to know what happens then click and drag your mouse over the box below...
Jimmy storms off after an argument with Scarlett and nearly runs down a woman and her baby! Happily they're fine but then joyriders race round the corner and knock Jimmy over! He's left unconscious...
It's incredibly dramatic and worth watching again and again. We did! Tune in at 8pm.
Gray O'Brien, who plays Billy, is a busy bee. Not only has he filmed scenes for the Christmas Doctor Who, he's now joined Coronation Street! Apparently his character will be seducing Carla. Don't worry though cos he'll be back in River City - he'd asked for a break and viewers will see Billy leaving Shieldinch for a wee while later this year.
If you want to know more (and find out how Billy leaves Shieldinch), you can read about it in the Daily Record today.
Due to football coverage, River City won't be in its usual Tuesday and Friday timeslot over the next couple of weeks. Instead, it'll be on Thursdays and Fridays. So the schedule looks like this:
Friday 3rd August - 8.30pm
Sunday 5th August - 1.15pm (omnibus)
Thursday 9th August - 8pm
Friday 10th August - 8.30pm
Sunday 12th August - time tbc (omnibus)
then back to regular Tuesdays at 8pm, Fridays at 8.30pm.
