Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing what STV offers in such a primetime slot. The Bill long ago became too much of a soap opera for my taste and I'm personally not at all worried about missing it.

thanks for that update night watchman. do you know if it is repeated every wednesday up until August 3 or if it is just this wednesday? i still can't believe that the programme we all know and have loved for many years has just been axed, just like that. quite gutted to be honest.

It's a shame the Bill has gone, but you can get this on FreeSat (if you have a box) by tuning into ITV West Country or similar.  You do need a Satellite dish though, and a techie to set it up.

The new Lewis is another missed programme, along with new series starting on Sunday, Benidorm's one-off programme a wile ago was another missing job.

I think that The Bill went off the boil a while ago for me (long boring scenarios, and the characters are too see-through), but my Mrs still enjoys it.

The viewing figures for the new programme that replaces it are the only things that will bring The Bill back to Scotland.  It could be worse, the new programme could be in Gaelic!

Well, I'm not Scottish and not affected by this issue, however, I'm so amazed at STV and their reply that I felt like posting my views anyway!!

Scotland is a great place, has a solid place in history and is internationally renowned for things that we all associate with Scotland such as Haggis, Kilts, Bag pipes and beautiful lochs and mountains.  So, given this solid standing with everyone outside of Scotland why do STV feel the need to inflict crap programming about being Scottish and the history of Scotland on their viewers, when the only people who get STV are SCOTTISH!!

How does this help promote Scotland or Scottish values?  For heavens sake, just put the Bill back on and keep your viewers happy (and also go back to the old filming style please!!)

I am so glad someone has set up a forum for this!  I sat down on thurs nite looking forward to watching the new look bill that i had seen advertised on the telly all week and had watched the cast members talkin about on gmtv to find that it wasnt on stv anymore! 

I worked out that i could watch it on itv london as many others have worked out and i fairly enjoyed the episodes but i cant stop thinking about my poor gran who has always enjoyed watching it and now cant as she doesnt have sky!

Think its shockin that they have took it off to put some daft programme on it!  hope no one is watching it so that they realise that their viewing figures go down and they put it back on!

I love how their answer is to put it on a mon/wed nite at 11pm who is going to stay up at that time of nite to watch it, its pathetic why not put made in scotland on at 11pm!!!!!

My husband and I have been watching The Bill also since it started. It's true what some people say - it's had it's high and low spots - but we still enjoy this programme. In the current climate it is still one of the few things we do consistently tune into apart form News at Ten.

We live in Glasgow and don't see why we should be discriminated against. There is no way we will stay up to watch at 11pm or always remember to set the recorder. IAnd why should we? I have a tele and a digibox and that's enough.

 What on earth makes STV think we want to watch shows about Tartan and Whisky. The Homecoming thing is a joke anyway and the advert is the one thing sure of getting a derisory laugh at the GFT.

Lets hope there are enough postings for STV to have a rethink and for ITV to realise what a mistake they have made.

You do realise that it is STV that is not showing the Bill, not ITV!!!?  It's STV you should be writing your complaints to.

I for one am very grateful to ITV for showing the repeat on a Monday night  (last weeks is being shown  tomorrow at 11 and midnight). I don't care what time it's at as long as I get to see it . I only have freeview so am unable to watch ITV London, so I'll set my recorder and all will be well.

Thanks again ITV, you are the best

goodie2shooz, many of us have indeed written to STV regarding the issue, but this thread was mainly to blow off steam and canvass opinions given that STV conveniently don't have any notable disussion forums. This was started before repeats were scheduled for ITV3, and I and no doubt the majority do wholeheartedly applaud ITV for arranging it. Credit where credit's due and all that. At least we now have some way of watching it.

The point is that STV are giving their viewers no say in these daft and completely unnecessary ITV opt-outs and that is one of the major issues that I for one have with the station. It should not be the case that a national TV station is so reluctant to communicate with the people around the country who pay the TV licence fees and in doing so allow the channel to operate, in turn keeping many of their employees in jobs. We provide the audience so why should we not be allowed to express our opinions (or indeed be officially notified of decisions cast) regarding what should or should not be broadcast before such decisions are made.

I spent about half an hour of my time (wasted time that is) writing out a very lengthy email expressing my sheer disappointment in not only the opt-outs of 'The Bill' and such like, but also various other issues concerning their organisation, which I won't go into again. Needless to say I wasn't given the decency of a reply to that message, whether that was partially down to the at times sarcastic and extremely frustrated tone in which it was written, who knows, but they are doing absolutely nothing to endear themselves to, from my own point of view, a fairly disillusioned viewer who has championed STV for many a year. It's a good job programmes like 'Send in the Dogs' are available through the ITV player, because there is no way I'm giving STV the time of day at the minute. Local news/football coverage I can get online but granted, the one thing I can actually praise STV for is the fact that their news coverage is far more region-based, and the sports segment is a credit to the station (unlike the west-coast biased BBC).

ITV I don't have a problem with whatsoever. As I say, many thanks to them for taking the steps to ensure that we Scots will not miss out.

So when is the bill coming back to stv?   that's what I'd like to know.   who do we write to?