series of his family comedy The Scotts. Rab and fellow actor Iain Connell had already got together for a pilot BBC One show about feuding brothers Vincent and Henry in a dysfunctional family, with Barbara Rafferty as the matriarch.
The characters have been described as the Scottish Gallagher brothers , with Iain’s character Henry being a family man and scaffolder with a traditional outlook, while Rab’s Vincent is a smug, self-made man with a cosmetic surgery business.The duo who wrote Burnistoun have also written and starred in Scots comedies Legit, Empty and The Sunny but had hoped the new comedy could fill a gap left by the like of Still Game.Robert said: “Nobody will ever be able to match what Still Game did.
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