The BBC comfortably leads its main rivals when it comes to having last year commissioned – in-house or from independent TV production companies – network programmes that can be described as having been 'made in Scotland'.
With several dozen 'Scottish programmes' to its name, the BBC's listing – as compiled by broadcasting regulators, Ofcom – does not include commissions for Gaelic-language digital station, BBC ALBA, or programmes for Scotland only.
In second place come Channel 4, with 17 programmes last year. Meanwhile, Channel 5 registers two and ITV three.
To qualify for having been Made out of London, a programme must satisfy at least two of the following three Ofcom criteria:
1. The production company must have a substantive business and production based in the UK outside the M25. A base will be taken to be substantive if it is the usual place of employment of executives managing the regional business, of senior personnel involved in the production in question, and of senior personnel involved in seeking programme commissions;
2. At least 70 per cent of the production budget (excluding the cost of on-screen talent, archive material, sports rights, competition prize-money and copyright costs) must be spent in the UK outside the M25; and
3. At least 50 per cent of the production talent (ie not on-screen talent) by cost must have their usual place of employment in the UK outside the M25. Freelancers without a usual place of employment outside the M25 will nonetheless count for this purpose if they live outside the M25.
The following 'Scottish' programmes were commissioned by the BBC:
A History of the World: A Culture Show Special
A Question of Genius
A Time to Remember
Al Murray's German Adventure
Antiques Road Trip
Art of the Sea
At Home with the Georgians
Battle of Britain
BBC Four World Cinema Awards
BBC Proms: Last Night Celebrations in Scotland
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
Beautiful Equations
Big City Park
Britain by Bike
Celebrity Eggheads
Coast
Copycats
Cowboy Trap
Culture Show
Culture Show Special: The Art of WWII
Dani's House
Dani's House: Sport Relief Special
Dear Diary – Mariella Frostrup
Delphi: The Bellybutton of the Ancient World
Dive, Dive, Dive!
Ed & Oucho's Excellent Inventions
Edgar Allan Poe – Love, Death And Women
Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2010
Eggheads
Frank Skinner's Opinionated
Garrow's Law
Homes Under the Hammer
How Not to Live Your Life
Imagine
JFK: The Making of Modern Politics
Jimmy's Food Factory
Jimmy's Global Harvest
Jimmy's Supermarket Secrets: Crop to Shop
Life of Riley
Lip Service
Lost Kingdoms of Africa
Madness – T in the Park
Maid in Britain
Mission: 2110
Motorway Cops
My Boyfriend The War Hero
Newsnight Review
Nina and The Neurons: In the Lab
Panorama
People's Palaces: The Golden Age of Civic Architecture
Rab C Nesbitt
Raven
Same Smile
Sidekick Stories
Simon King's Shetland Adventure
Songs of Praise
South Africa in Pictures
T in the Park 2010 Highlights
T: Dizzee Rascal
T: Editors & La Roux
T: Eminem and Black Eyed Peas
T: Florence and The Machine and Faithless
T: Kasabian
T: Muse and Calvin Harris
T: Prodigy
T: Stereophonics and Paolo Nutini
Taking The Keys Away
The Adventures of Daniel
The Big Questions
The Building of the Indian Railway
The Deep
The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia
The Man Who Cycled the Americas
The Man Who Shot the Sixties
The National Lottery: In it to Win it
The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins
The Old Guys
The One Show Inserts
The Private Life of Chickens
The Private Life of Cows
The Private Life of Pigs
The Review Show
The Review Show at the Edinburgh Festival
The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link Peak Time 2010/11
Three Men go to Scotland
Time to Remember
Tonight's the Night
Traffic Cops
Unequal Opportunities With John Humphrys
Victorian Pharmacy
Wait for It
Waybuloo
Weakest Link
Weakest Link: 10th Anniversary
Welcome to Lagos
The following were commissioned by Channel 4:
3 Hungry Boys
Air Hospital
Filth
Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights
Genius of Britain
Iron Chef-Daytime
Kirstie and Phil's Embarrassing Bits
Kirstie and Phil's Perfect Christmas
Kirstie's Homemade Home
Location Location Location
Location Location Location: A Decade in Property
Relocation Relocation Relocation: Phil Down Under
River Cottage Bites
River Cottage Everyday
River Cottage Spring and Autumn
The Untold Invasion of Britain
The following were commissioned by Channel 5:
Extreme Fishing with Robson Green
Rory & Paddy's Even Greater
The following were commissioned by ITV:
Real Crime with Mark Austin Scot
Taggart
The Santa Files with John Sergeant
