Filth Director Jon S. Baird has confirmed that he will direct the first three episodes of a planned series of Babylon, based on the pilot directed by Danny Boyle. The new show focuses on life inside the inner circle of the UK police force. A subject matter the Filth director is all too familiar with given his  recent award winning adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s sordid account of a Scottish police officers decent into madness.

Speaking on the red carpet at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, Baird collected several awards for Filth and star James McAvoy and told Red Carpet News just what we can expect from the new series: