A new casting team has been set up by Channel 4 to find a Scottish family to star in Gogglebox.
It comes after the channel received complaints from viewers and MPs over the lack of Scottish representation on the show.
Pete Wishart MP, chairman of the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster, welcomed the decision which followed his committee’s evidence session on public broadcasting in Scotland with Channel 4.
The channel’s chief executive Alex Mahon has since written to MPs to confirm that the broadcaster has agreed a separate budget for a dedicated casting team to find a suitable Scottish family to appear on the hit show.
It said it was hoped the family could join the show’s cast from the new year.
According to the broadcaster, half of the 99 complaints they had received about programming in Scotland last year were about the lack of Scots on Gogglebox.
Channel 4 also received a complaints about “an overemphasis on the England football team” and “programmes with Britain in the title that viewers felt were actually focused on England”.
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