Two Doors Down's Jonathan Watson has given an update on the filming of the sitcom's eighth season as he prepares to rehearse for a series of live shows at the OVO Hydro.
The Glaswegian actor who plays Colin Whyte in the hit TV show is gearing up to reunite with his fellow cast members when they sit down for a table read this week.
The comedy will take over the Hydro stage with live shows on September 25, 26 and 27 and October 9, 10 and 11 this year.
Speaking exclusively to the Glasgow Times, Jonathan said: "I start rehearsals for the Two Doors Down stage show at the Hydro. We do the first read through next week and start rehearsals later in the summer.
"We're very much looking forward to it.
"There's a little bit more of adrenaline involved with something like this but I usually do a theatre job once a year, so being in front of a live audience is something that I get quite excited by.
"We'll enjoy the new experience of doing the show in a different medium."
Once the live shows finish in the autumn, the cast will be given a break from the show as they prepare to return early next year to film their eighth series.
The last full season aired in November 2023 - just months after the death of the show's co-writer Simon Carlyle, aged just 48.
The show was believed to be over, before Carlyle's long-time collaborator Gregor Sharp developed a one-off Christmas special in December.
The anticipated series is set to pick up exactly where the 2025 Christmas special left off when it airs in 2027.
Jonathan says he is yet to read any script for the series, but is looking forward to getting back to filming.
He added: "Next year, at the beginning of the year, probably around April, we'll start filming series eight of Two Doors Down."
Jonathan has recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of Scottish comedy show, Only an Excuse?
The iconic footballing skit show began on BBC Radio Scotland as a parody of the TV documentary 'Only a Game?'
However, in the years that followed it became a staple of Hogmanay, appearing on BBC One annually before the bells, before wrapping up with an hour-long episode in 2020 which Differ and Watson claimed would be their last.
To celebrate the anniversary, Jonathan and co-creator Phil Differ joined the radio station for an hour-long World Cup special looking back on the last four decades whilst adding some new content on the tournament.
Jonathan said: "When we started out, we didn't think for a second it would go on for so long.
"We really stopped doing it about three or four years ago, so, when it came up that the anniversary was upon us, we wanted to celebrate it in some way, and it was ideal to take it back to radio, which is where it first started out.
"Philip and I were interviewed by Amy Irons and her colleague. She brought up sketches that I couldn't remember because over the years we've done so many of them."
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