Robbie Coltrane buckles up for a 400-mile road trip from London to Glasgow in a bid to rediscover Britain’s forgotten backwaters.

During his journey he stopped off in Annan to watch the destruction of the cooling towers at Chapelcross nuclear power station and along the way look into the history of the site.

The programme aired on ITV1 during September 2007.

Scrappy Races Rally, a spin-off from Channel Four’s successful Scrapheap Challenge, used the Galloway Forest Park as its primary filming location in September 2005.

Shooting over a four week period, the series was based around the ‘Raider’s Road’, a ten mile stretch of forestry track running through the Galloway Forest Park, near New Galloway.

The Rally pits four teams against each other, each starting off with a different vehicle.

Each ’stage’ of the rally requires the teams to modify their vehicle to undertake two challenges e.g. tree-felling, boulder-rolling or vehicle recovery and the event was timed, from the beginning of the build to the completion of the challenges, and the team with the fastest time across all five stages will win the rally.

The show was presented by those two stalwarts of Scrapheap Challenge, Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers.

The River Cottage Film crew were up on Troloss Farms filming in September for a special hour long programme that went out in the run up to Christmas on Channel 4.

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall wanted to find out about Blackface Haggis and the lamb and mutton that it derives from, so he pitched his tee-pee up in the heather and spent a couple of days in the area.

He spent some time with Neil Dunphy, the shepherd at Troloss. He then went out onto the hill as Neil gathered a heft and then graded some wether lambs for Weatherall Foods’ mail order customers.

Hugh then took part in the Blackface annual haggis hunt before going down to Dumfries to see Stuart Houston making haggis in his butcher’s shop.

Three series of the very popular 2000 Acres of Sky made by Zenith Productions for the BBC was filmed in Port Logan, and the surrounding area of the beautiful South Rhinns.

The brief was for a fishing village with views of what could be a mainland, as the drama is supposed to set on the fictional Hebridean island of ’Ronansay'.

Port Logan became the island on the village, with Portpatrick as the mainland port. Other locations used were in the series were Dunskey Castle, Drummore, Bladnoch Distillery near Wigtown and Stranraer.

Starring Michelle Collins (ex-Eastenders) and Paul Kaye (of Dennis Pennis fame) in his first acting role, this has been Dumfries and Galloway’s most high-profile filming to date, and has introduced millions of viewers around the world to a little-known part of Scotland.

2000 Acres of Sky was first broadcast on BBC1 in January 2001.