VideoGaiden – the return of video gaming's greatest TV show
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 ever
Shieldinch looks like a typical Glasgow suburb, 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 today, the streets are eerily deserted, and 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 break, Shieldinch has been invaded by guerrilla film-makers: Robert "Rab" Florence, Ryan Macleod and a three-man camera crew. Wearing garish hats and deliberately radiating the hyperactive energy of children's TV presenters, Florence and Macleod are capering outside the Oyster Cafe, delivering a piece to camera at a remarkably high volume.
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