“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 ...

Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As ...

Authors Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh are teaming up to co-create the press satire series 'American Tabloid.' By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent With the working title American Tabloid, the series ...

The kind of motivational speaker you prayed to materialize in your high school auditorium, Irvine Welsh wanders the tiny stage of Carrboro’s Dirty South Improv (DSI) before a hormonal house of mostly ...

The bust-up with Harvey Weinstein, Irvine Welsh’s verdict on the script (‘too effete’), the problem with the excrement scene … the cast and crew relive the making of the classic 1996 film Welsh had ...

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh is best known for his slang-laced tales of existential debauchery in the damp, booze-soaked climes of his native Edinburgh (the most famous of those being Trainspotting).

Dougray Scott stars as Detective Inspector Ray Lennox in Irvine Welsh’s BritBox series Crime (Picture: BritBox) Irvine Welsh and Dougray Scott have spoken about their gritty new BritBox drama Crime, ...

The gang is back - Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud - the scheming, drunken, brawling, stealing, spaced-out, hooked and pill-popping "Trainspotting" crew of Scots we first met in Irvine Welsh's 1993 ...

Netflix’s 14 Peaks producer Noah Media Group has boarded a documentary on cult Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and will shop the show at Mipcom Cannes next week. I Am Irvine Welsh, from LS Films, ...

EXCLUSIVE: 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 ...

I met Irvine Welsh about six weeks ago at Backflip, the bar inside the Phoenix Hotel in the Tenderloin section of San Francisco. I got there about an hour early and started downing Jack and Cokes.