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It was such a fascinating period to see STV really struggle, and frankly fail, to fill their schedules with some utter tosh while the rest of the country was gripped by hit series like Downton. ITV ended up putting Downton on ITV3 a few days after the broadcast so people in Scotland could still watch.

I remember they showed a 12 year old STV produced crime drama that no one remembered in place of some big new drama which wound a lot of people up, and I think they bought the Australian drama Underbelly to fill some gaps too. Didn't they fill the weekend daytime schedules with old STV produced kids shows as well?

There was a great thread on Digital Spy that I'll have to dig up that was full of angry Scots documenting pretty much every schedule change.

Here it is: forums.digitalspy.com 

I'd forgotten they'd dropped The Bill. Also gone were new episodes of Lewis, Midsummer Murders and Kingdom. They showed a 5 year old RTE drama instead!