Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse are heading to Shetland for a new episode of their popular television series Gone Fishing.
The comedians travelled to the islands to film the ninth series of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, with their Shetland adventure taking them around locations including Scalloway and Minn Beach in Burra.
The new series begins on BBC Two on Sunday 25 October, with the Shetland episode due to be shown on 8 November. The series will be made available on iPlayer.
Titled Trout and Pollock, the episode sees Mortimer and Whitehouse travel to the northernmost reaches of the UK as they attempt to fish both Shetland’s freshwater lochs and surrounding seas.
They are on the hunt for trout and pollock while battling the islands’ notoriously unpredictable weather.
The pair also explore Shetland by e-bike, with footage from the new series showing them cycling through Burra.
The programme describes Shetland as feeling like “a very different world” for the two comedians as they discover the landscape and communities of the archipelago.
Mortimer and Whitehouse were spotted filming in Shetland last year, but details of the finished episode and when viewers will finally get to see their trip have now emerged.
It is not the first time the popular series has headed north of the border.
Previous Scottish adventures have taken the pair to the River Tay, the River Tweed, North Uist in the Outer Hebrides and the Highlands, while the eighth series saw them visit the River Findhorn at the Cawdor Estate.
Gone Fishing first aired in 2018 after Whitehouse encouraged his friend to take up fishing following Mortimer’s triple heart bypass.
Whitehouse had experienced serious heart problems of his own and had previously been fitted with three stents.
What began as two friends fishing following health scares has developed into one of the BBC’s most popular factual entertainment programmes, mixing spectacular landscapes and fishing with conversations about friendship, ageing, health and mortality.
The ninth series arrives at a poignant moment for the programme following the death of Ted, the Patterdale terrier cross who became one of its most popular stars.
Mortimer and Whitehouse have also spoken ahead of the new series about getting older and the physical demands of continuing to make the programme.
Both men are now in their late 60s and have acknowledged that their health will ultimately determine how long their fishing adventures can continue.
For now, however, the pair are heading to one of their most remote Scottish destinations yet.
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing returns to BBC Two at 9pm on Sunday 25 October.