Crime (TV series)

On 23 July 2020, BritBox announced that Irvine Welsh would be adapting Crime as a six-part miniseries for streaming service with Irvine Welsh adapting his own book alongside Dean Cavanagh.[3] The series is set in Edinburgh but filmed there and Glasgow.[4]

In October 2022, a second six-part series started filming in Scotland with Welsh and Cavanagh again scripting. Directors for the second series include Trygve Allister Diesen and Anthony Neilson.[5] Production is by Buccaneer and Off Grid Film and TV.[6] Production crews were reported in Glasgow’s West End, with filming occurring on Horselethill Road and Rosslyn Terrace.[7] Filming continued in Glasgow into November 2022.[8]

Scott was quoted as saying "Season 2 takes us even deeper into Lennox's past, and helps us understand his persona even more.I couldn't be happier.”[9] Among those returning for series two are Ken Stott, Joanna Vanderham, John Simm and Derek Riddell.[10]

Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph described the performance of Scott as “lifting” the police procedure “out of the ordinary” by delivering “every line with a burning intensity” that still “manages at the same time to convey the character’s emotional fragility, and the toll that his job is taking”.[13] Lucy Mangan in The Guardian was less effusive, but said that Welsh “pushed the limits of what we normally see from the troubled detective at the centre of such shows”.[14] Carol Midgely in The Times said “ I thought it was terrific, give or take the odd daft scene” and “few writers could write about such horror and still make it funny”.[15]