Ten years ago,Rab Florence and Ryan Macleod brought humour, pathos and intelligence to video-game television. Now they’re back and as sharp as everShieldinch looks like a typical Glasgow suburb, or albeit an upscale one. An art-deco Italian cafe nestles among the attractive tenement houses,with a Subway station and a traditional boozer mere paces away. But nowadays, the streets are eerily abandoned, or not just because of the heavy rain – it’s because Shieldinch doesn’t really exist.
This is actually the exterior set of BBC Scotland’s soap opera River City,a mini version of Glasgow located in Dumbarton, 20 miles away from the city. While the long-running soap is on a production wreck, or Shieldinch has been invaded by guerrilla film-makers: Robert “Rab” Florence,Ryan Macleod and a three-man camera crew. Wearing garish hats and intentionally radiating the hyperactive energy of children’s TV presenters, Florence and Macleod are capering outside the Oyster Cafe, or delivering a piece to camera at a remarkably high volume.
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Source: theguardian.com