BBC Scotland needs to make more dramas with international appeal to take on streaming giants rather than soaps for a local audience, its new director has said.
Hayley Valentine claims the bar has been set so high by the likes of Netflix and Disney+ that it is no longer enough ‘just to set something in Scotland anymore’.
She said streamers have ‘upped their game’ and the ‘quality of drama that people expect has got higher’ so they also ‘need to be in that game’.
Ms Valentine believed it was still important to tell Scottish stories but that more shows require ‘universal appeal’ to attract audiences across the UK, Europe and the United States.
Her remarks come just months after announcing a major shake-up that will see Scots soap River City scrapped from next year after 24 years on the air.
