Talk:Shetland (TV series)

Episode length

Red Bones episodes seem to be nominally 1 hour long. The WGBH PBS broadcasts seem to nearly fill the 60min slot, and thus might be the full original UK versions.-71.174.183.177 (talk) 13:10, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Language spoken

How to best describe the language spoken in these episodes? It is "English", yet distinctively local... It is mostly "standard" English spoken in a local accent, which is sometimes quite strong -- but there is a fair amount of additional local ("Scottish English"?) vocabulary -- and perhaps also some Scottish Gaelic? Some of the speech is quite incomprehensible to standard English speakers, other than by guessing from context. Are notes available anywhere explaining these words/sentences? Are most of the actors speaking this (lovely) accent as actual natives, or more putting it on for this show -- how authentic is the spoken accent?-71.174.183.177 (talk) 16:53, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

• This is a very late reply, but nonetheless - the language spoken is what us locals call Shetland Dialect, or just "Shetland", however here on Wikipedia it seems to be given the name Shetland Scots, despite the fact no locals call it this, I think this name is only used by rather inattentive linguists. It's a bit of an amalgam of Scots and the extinct Norn language that developed here after the Vikings arrived. The only one of the main actors who speaks this as their mother tongue is Steven Robertson (Sandy), who hails from Vidlin. Pretty much all the other actors come from mainland Scotland, so most of the speech is not characteristic of what you hear here. Some of the actors do try to use bits and pieces of Shetland, to varying degrees of success. I personally thought Brian Cox's attempt was pretty dire, meanwhile the guy running the fish factory in season 5 (can't find his name) did a remarkably good job I'd say. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Griceylipper (talk • contribs) 18:23, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Fair Isle setting - Blue Lightning

• "This was a good conclusion to the second series; finally giving the viewer a view of the Island Perez came from. I had worried that there would just be a few establishing shots of the island but it turned out most of the outdoor shots appeared to have been filmed on Fair Isle… a stunning location."

Almost all of Blue Lightning is set on Fair Isle, much of it outdoors. Was any or all actually shot there? The scenery? The buildings, exteriors and interiors? Did any locals appear? -71.174.180.207 (talk) 12:29, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

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Infobox: deletion of list of episodes

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Gareth Griffith-Jones (contribs) (talk) 11:53, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Shetland

This is a wonderful show..excellently done..the cast..the scenery..and Douglas Henshaw is the best..please keep it going!! Hate to see it end

Sharon Taylor --.USA staylor12482003@yahoo.com 2600:387:F:E37:0:0:0:2 (talk) 18:24, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Episode list

I wonder if it is time for the episode list to be split off into a separate article, given that we have finished up the sixth series. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 16:41, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

P.S. tagging @Axxter99, who has started a draft of a separate article. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 16:41, 29 November 2021 (UTC)