New Broadcast Partners for Irvine Welsh’s Crime

Cineflix Rights has inked a slew of new sales for Irvine Welsh’s Crime, starring Dougray Scott.

The series, adapted by author Irvine Welsh from his own novel, has been acquired by Movistar Plus+ (Spain), SBS (Australia), RTÉ (Ireland), blue Entertainment (Switzerland) and CANAL+ (Luxembourg, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands).

Tim Mutimer, CEO of Cineflix Rights, said: “The combination of Irvine Welsh’s own adaptation of his best-selling novels, together with Dougray Scott’s powerful, award-winning performance has made this a top-performing series for us with buyers around the world, and we’re anticipating further deals at MIPCOM.”