Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It emerged yesterday that Sky, owned by American media and entertainment company Comcast, which is also owner of Universal Pictures, Dreamworks and NBC, is in discussion with ITV for a takeover to create a large UK-focussed streaming enterprise. So far it looks likely that this will not affect the production of future series of the TV crime drama Shetland. This is because the discussions are over ITV’s TV channels and ITVX, and they do not include ITV’s programme-production division including ITV Studios and Silverprint Pictures. ITV Studios, followed by Silverprint Pictures, have been the creators of all ten series of the TV crime drama Shetland.

NHS Shetland has given an update on the flu and covid vaccination programme for those eligible to have vaccines this winter.

Following a meeting of councillors in private in September, a restructure of the management of the Shetland Islands Council is likely.

Beatrice Wishart has written to Jonathan Allan, the interim chief executive of Channel Four. This was after a number of people in Shetland claimed there was the misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting in the new Channel 4 show called Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter.

From November next year, offshore crew change helicopters based at Sumburgh, and elsewhere, will only be able to carry workers that have a maximum clothed weight of 19 and half stone.

Pelagic fish landings: Landing mackerel at Lerwick is the Charisma.

The coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked and the Fraserburgh lifeboat was launched on service to a fishing boat 115 nautical miles south-south-east of Sumburgh, where the skipper had health issues.

The Shetland Islands Council has said that the main road at Dales Lees is to reopen on Monday, once work is completed on reinstating the road’s edge line, with this delayed due to the recent weather.