Bannan (English title: The Ties that Bind) is a Scottish Gaelic-language television series produced by Young Films and first broadcast by BBC Alba in 2014. It tells the story of the return of Màiri MacDonald from Glasgow to the Gaelic-speaking island where she had been brought up, where she comes to terms with the family drama that had caused her to leave eight years earlier. The title, Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Bannan, is the Gaelic word for 'family bonds'.
The show was renewed with a contract for additional four years in 2017, according to The Scotsman newspaper.[1] The show aired its eighth and final season in December 2021 with the finale airing on New Years Day 2022.
Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland