‘Trainspotting’s’ Irvine Welsh Adapts ‘Crime’ For BritBox Originals Slate

arrested in connection with a fatal car crash that claimed the life of a three-year-old boy.Xander Irvine was left seriously injured after the horror accident on Morningside Road in Edinburgh on June 30.The youngster was rushed to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary alongside his mother Victoria but was tragically pronounced dead a short time later.His mum, who suffered minor injuries, was released a short time later.A major investigation was launched to determine the cause of the accident, which took

Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing have just released a trailer for their latest horror title, “Alone.” The film is directed by John Hyams from a script penned by Mattias Olsson. The film premiered earlier this year at the cozy Mammoth Film Festival and is now slated to be “available everywhere” on September 18.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThe public’s help is being sought to help choose the name of the new national facility for young people being built at Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine.It is hoped that work will start on the 12-bedded unit for children aged 12 to 17 years with complex difficulties later this year.It will be the first secure adolescent inpatient service for young people in Scotland, and means that children will

Florence + The Machine singer said: “As a fragrance obsessive, I am honoured to be a part of the new Gucci Bloom campaign with these iconic women, Susie Cave, Jodie Turner-Smith and High Priestess Anjelica Huston.”After sharing the fragrance’s new ad, she added: “Shot in the distant dream of 2019 by legendary director Floria Sigismondi in the flowering ruins of La Scarzuola, a surrealist theatre built upon an ancient monastery in the Umbrian Countryside.”She then thanked Gucci “for this

Jake Kanter International TV EditorHello, and welcome to International Insider. Jake Kanter with you in the saddle — here’s everything you need to know about the global film and TV business this week.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: You wait years for one bus, and then two come along at the same time. That’s the phrase Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh used when reflecting on how two of his first-ever TV projects got unveiled within the same week.

Court in Glasgow yesterday accused of killing a 13-year-old girl by supplying her with ecstasy.Callum Owens, 19, of Irvine, Ayrshire, denies the culpable homicide of Grace Handling, also from Irvine, by recklessly and unlawfully supplying a lethal drug to her on June 28, 2018.Prosecutors state that Grace ingested the drug to the danger of her health, safety and life and died as a consequence of this and Owens killed her.He is also accused of being concerned in the supply of ecstasy from

American Tabloid, the working title, will show a weekly publication across different decades.The project is expected to be a fictional place “where political correctness, morals and ethics are left firmly at the door”.Burning Wheel said it was “positive” the deal would be firmed up shortly, with development to begin soon.Producer Shelley Hammond said: “To do this production justice we always knew we would require writers who don’t hold back and go way further than most would dare.“We are just

BritBox, the U.K. streaming service created by ITV and the BBC, has begun flexing its original programming muscles.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe BBC and ITV’s joint-venture streamer BritBox has pulled the curtain back on its first slate of UK drama originals, just weeks after Deadline revealed that Damian Lewis and Dominic West will star in an adaptation of A Spy Among Friends for the streamer.Building on the Kim Philby espionage thriller, which BritBox is co-producing with Spectrum Originals, the subscription video service has announced three fresh projects — all of which are literary adaptations

U.S. tabloid culture is set to come under the satirical microscopes of authors Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), who are in talks to co-create a new dramatized series for U.K.

rambunctious cavalcade of pranksters, con men, and rapscallions — in other words, journalists — being brought together from across the globe to change not only the landscape but the power of the press forever from scandalous rumour to political puppetry.”“To do this production justice we always knew we would require writers who don’t hold back and go way further than most would dare,” Burning Wheel’s Shelley Hammond said in a statement.

cats in distressing attacks in Ayrshire. Brutes have left three cats seriously injured in violent attacks in the Auchengate area of Irvine.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterIrvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis are set to team up on a satirical drama series about America’s tabloid press culture, according to UK producer Burning Wheel Productions.Working title American Tabloid, the show will chronicles a weekly publication across decades, a place where political correctness, morals and ethics are left firmly at the door.

Naman Ramachandran “Trainspotting” writer Irvine Welsh and “American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis are in final talks with the U.K.’s Burning Wheel Productions to co-create a dramatized series based on the national tabloid press culture in the U.S.With the working title “American Tabloid,” the series will unspool over decades and follow events from a weekly publication where political correctness, morals and ethics are unheard of.The deal is expected to get confirmed in the coming weeks,

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterPolice are appealing for information following an incident of wilful fire raising in Irvine. The incident happened around 1.10am on Thursday, July 16 on Gottries Crescent where a man approached a white Audi A3 car from the direction of Beach Drive.The man then poured an unknown substance over the vehicle before setting it on fire and running back towards the same direction. The suspect is described

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRobert Irvine will add some new ingredients to Food Network as part of a new two-year deal with the Discovery-owned cable outlet.Irvine will lead new episodes of his series “Restaurant: Impossible” and develop mid- and short-form video segments for both linear and digital venues, including Food Network’s Kitchen app.

Anne Hegerty studied Bradley Walsh for presenting tips. The 61-year-old star appears alongside the 60-year-old television host on 'The Chase', and she admitted to studying her friend before launching her own game show 'Britain's Brightest Family'.

Edinburgh street this morning as tragic tot Xander Irvine was laid to rest.