River Metropolis is to be rocked by destruction after a storm sweeps Shieldinch inflicting catastrophic harm.
Bosses say that the storyline, which is predicted to start out being filmed round November, will even see a foremost character the sufferer of a horrific sexual assault.
Nonetheless, they’re preserving tight-lipped about who’s concerned within the hard-hitting scenes, anticipated to air subsequent yr.
The solid and crew are gearing as much as begin taking pictures their festive episodes over the following few weeks, with Montego Avenue at the moment changed into a winter wonderland.
Producer Martin McCardie instructed the File: "There's lots of good issues developing, we now have the storm episode, it is a large storyline and the storm evening truly hides a sexual assault.
"After which that evolves and it takes us proper by means of till subsequent yr, which might contain revenge. It might concerned homicide.
"However I'm not saying if it does but.
"It is an vital storyline and the actors that we now have bought in it have actually embraced it - are going for it.
"There's bought to be issues in it [River City] which are reflective of what's occurring in society, and Rape Disaster Scotland have been concerned with it proper the way in which by means of the method from the storyline to studying the scripts they usually have be actual invaluable.
"This stuff should be taken severely."
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