Sanjeev Kohli says the Scottish television industry will be losing “an academy” for industry professionals and actors when River City ends next year.

Kohli may be best known as Navid in Still Game, but he also had a long-running role in the Scottish soap between 2016 and 2022. Now the series is set to finish in 2026, he is worried about what willl be lost as a result.

“Love or hate River City - and there are plenty of people in both camps -it’s an academy,” he told The Herald Magazine in an interview.

“I learned loads in my five years there. I watched camera operators become directors. I watched people learning on the job. And that will be away.

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“I know they are replacing it with other Scottish-based productions and that’s great, but there’s no other place where you will g

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