Howard Overman, the very talented man behind Misfits, has adapted Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency as a one-hour drama for BBC4 starring Stephen Mangan, Helen Baxendale and Darren Boyd, and called simply Dirk Gently. If successful, it could become a TV series.
Now, here’s the trailer. What do you think? Good or not? Series or not?
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
