{"id":17911,"date":"2022-11-29T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:13:29","slug":"britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/","title":{"rendered":"BritBox Picks Up Irvine Welsh\u2019s Crime Season Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BritBox International has acquired the second season of <em>Irvine Welsh\u2019s Crime<\/em> from Cineflix Rights for its streaming service in the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Africa and the Nordics.<\/p>\n<p>In season two, Dougray Scott (<em>Mission Impossible 2<\/em>, <em>Twin Town<\/em>, <em>My Week with Marilyn<\/em>) returns as troubled detective DI Ray Lennox. His portrayal of the character in season one earned him the International Emmy for best performance by an actor.<\/p>\n<p>The new season sees Lennox return to Edinburgh Serious Crimes, ready to prove he is fully recovered from his breakdown only to find that everything has changed. The cast includes Ken Stott (<em>Rebus<\/em>, <em>The Missing<\/em>), Joanna Vanderham (<em>Dancing on the Edge<\/em>), John Simm (<em>Grace<\/em>, <em>Doctor Who<\/em>), Derek Riddell (<em>Silent Witness<\/em>), Gabriel Scott (<em>House of the Dragon<\/em>), Rebecca Root (<em>The Queen&#8217;s Gambit<\/em>) David Elliot (<em>Kajaki<\/em>), Laura Fraser (<em>Breaking Bad<\/em>, <em>Pact<\/em>), Fiona Bell (<em>Shetland<\/em>), Sarah McCardie (<em>It\u2019s A Sin<\/em>), Brian McCardie (<em>Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em>), John McLarnon (<em>Outlander<\/em>), Ewan Miller (<em>Skin<\/em>) and Gordon Morris (<em>The Forgotten<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, BritBox North America has slated <em>Wagatha: A Courtroom Drama<\/em>\u2014originally commissioned by the U.K.\u2019s Channel 4 as <em>Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama<\/em>\u2014for a December debut. The series dramatizes the court case between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy, wives of high-profile British footballers. Rooney\u2019s extensive Instagram sleuthing exposed Vardy and helped coin the term \u201cWagatha Christie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BritBox International has acquired the second season of Irvine Welsh\u2019s Crime from Cineflix Rights for its streaming service in the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Africa and the Nordics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":17912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[5142,4355,3462,5476,5477,4936,5478,5479],"class_list":["post-17911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-britbox-international","tag-britbox-north-america","tag-cineflix-rights","tag-coleen-rooney","tag-dougray-scott","tag-irvine-welshs-crime","tag-rebekah-vardy","tag-wagatha-a-courtroom-drama","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BritBox Picks Up Irvine Welsh\u2019s Crime Season Two - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BritBox Picks Up Irvine Welsh\u2019s Crime Season Two - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BritBox International has acquired the second season of Irvine Welsh\u2019s Crime from Cineflix Rights for its streaming service in the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Africa and the Nordics.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-29T15:13:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/BritBoxInternational-IrvineWelshsCrime-1122.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/\",\"name\":\"BritBox Picks Up Irvine Welsh\u2019s Crime Season Two - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-29T15:13:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-29T15:13:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/britbox-picks-up-irvine-welshs-crime-season-two\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BritBox Picks Up Irvine Welsh\u2019s Crime Season Two\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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