THE ROYAL Television Society (RTS) has announced the nominations for the RTS Scotland Awards 2017.
Gok Wan, Lorraine Kelly and Phil Spencer will vie for the On Screen Personality of the Year, while Jude Ho, Louise Lockwood and Michael Keillor are short listed for Television Director of the Year. In the new Young Journalist of the Year category Channel 4’s Kevin Anderson will compete against BBC Scotland’s Nick Eardley and Rachel Coburn.
The Best Drama category sees In Plain Sight go up against Shetland Series 3 and The Secret Agent. Still Game, Scot Squad Festive Special and Two Doors Down are nominated for the Best Comedy Award.
Scandal (BBC Scotland), Seb Coe and the Corruption Scandal (BBC Panorama) and Scotland and the Battle for Britain (STV) are all up for the Best Current Affairs Award.
The award winners will be announced at a ceremony on May 17 at Oran Mor, Glasgow.
rts.org.uk/award/rts-scotland-awards-2017
OUR LADIES of Perpetual Succour, National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre’s show based on Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos, won the Best New Comedy award at the 2017 Olivier Awards. The show had picked up nominations in two categories: Best New Comedy, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for which the eight cast members shared a nomination.
Since debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour has had six award wins and a further five nominations, including a Herald Angel, a Fringe First, a Stage Award for Acting Excellence, and a CATS Award for Best Music & Sound.
The show, pictured, was also among the first winners at this year’s inaugural Tonic Theatre Awards, celebrating the role of women in the theatre industry.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour transfers to the Duke of York's Theatre in London’s West End next month, previewing from May 9 and playing for a17-week run.
nationaltheatrescotland.com
A NEW exhibition in Dundee is to highlight 1967, the year the University of Dundee became an independent institution.
"Good Vibrations" explores the events of that year, both on campus and in the city as a whole, and opens at the University’s Lamb Gallery on Thursday.
It includes photographs, documents, artworks and artefacts, and describes the major developments in the university, as well as looking at what life was like as a student in Dundee.
It was a time where the student body was becoming more radical, with various demonstrations and sit ins, some led by George Robertson, who eventually became the 10th Secretary-General of NATO and is now known as Lord Robertson of Port Ellen.
Good Vibrations runs until July 1.
dundee.ac.uk
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