Dirk Gently TV Series in Development?

[Bob The Skutter]

I just thought, maybe this should be in SF&F... mods feel free to move it if you think it's better off there.

From Chortle.co.uk
The BBC is developing a TV comedy-drama based on Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently detective novels.
Literary agent Ed Victor, who represents the author’s estate revealed the news at a Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy celebration in central London.
He said he had seen ‘a great script – not just a good script’ for the planned adaptation, but warned: ‘With the BBC, it can take forever’.
He said the producer attached to the project – thought to be former Cosby Show executive Caryn Mandabach – described the novels as ‘the greatest storytelling opportunity for television since Star Trek’.
However, Victor revealed that Adams’ estate had cancelled plans for a radio series based on the unfinished third Dirk Gently novel, A Salmon Of Doubt, saying ‘there was not enough of Douglas’ in the project to make it worthwhile.
Victor also raised the possibility of a remake of the original Hitchhikers TV series, saying the BBC had ‘made noises’ about returning to the successful franchise, but ‘glaciers move faster’.
Any remake would require a licence from Disney, who brought the rights to the Hitchhikers ‘brand’ for the 2005 film.

Sounds like if it gets made it's a long way off, and I don't know whether this is something I'm excited about and looking forward to, or wary of and should never be done...

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Hmm, I guess we can take from this that it takes a really long time for the BBC to develop a property.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Hmm, I guess we can take from this that it takes a really long time for the BBC to develop a property.

Not always, but does seem like they don't mind taking a long time to develop things they want to do properly.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Tragically, I still haven't read the Dirk Gently books, but I would love to see a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series that covers all five books (yes, all of them).

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Tragically, I still haven't read the Dirk Gently books, but I would love to see a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series that covers all five books (yes, all of them).

There are 6 now. And Another Thing...

 

[RandyS]

Tragically, I still haven't read the Dirk Gently books, but I would love to see a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series that covers all five books (yes, all of them).

Me too.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Tragically, I still haven't read the Dirk Gently books, but I would love to see a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series that covers all five books (yes, all of them).

There are 6 now. And Another Thing...

I hadn't heard about this book but I have to say I'm not interested because it's written by Eoin Colfer. I simply cannot stand his writing. I literally threw the first Artemis Fowl book across the room because I was so disgusted and annoyed by the characters and story.

Come to think of it, maybe I have heard about this because in the back of my mind I seem to recall the above rant in regards to refusing to read a book by him. This must have been it and I simply blocked the idea out of my mind. Damn you, Bob!

 

[Lindley]

Could be fun.

 

[Rii]

Sure, why not? Just so long as they do Schrodinger's Cat.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Tragically, I still haven't read the Dirk Gently books, but I would love to see a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series that covers all five books (yes, all of them).

There are 6 now. And Another Thing...

I hadn't heard about this book but I have to say I'm not interested because it's written by Eoin Colfer. I simply cannot stand his writing. I literally threw the first Artemis Fowl book across the room because I was so disgusted and annoyed by the characters and story.

Come to think of it, maybe I have heard about this because in the back of my mind I seem to recall the above rant in regards to refusing to read a book by him. This must have been it and I simply blocked the idea out of my mind. Damn you, Bob!

Now you tell me. I ordered the book last night... Never read any of his other work.

 

[diankra]

I just thought, maybe this should be in SF&F... mods feel free to move it if you think it's better off there.

From Chortle.co.uk
The BBC is developing a TV comedy-drama based on Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently detective novels.
Literary agent Ed Victor, who represents the author’s estate revealed the news at a Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy celebration in central London.
He said he had seen ‘a great script – not just a good script’ for the planned adaptation, but warned: ‘With the BBC, it can take forever’.
He said the producer attached to the project – thought to be former Cosby Show executive Caryn Mandabach – described the novels as ‘the greatest storytelling opportunity for television since Star Trek’.
However, Victor revealed that Adams’ estate had cancelled plans for a radio series based on the unfinished third Dirk Gently novel, A Salmon Of Doubt, saying ‘there was not enough of Douglas’ in the project to make it worthwhile.
Victor also raised the possibility of a remake of the original Hitchhikers TV series, saying the BBC had ‘made noises’ about returning to the successful franchise, but ‘glaciers move faster’.
Any remake would require a licence from Disney, who brought the rights to the Hitchhikers ‘brand’ for the 2005 film.

Sounds like if it gets made it's a long way off, and I don't know whether this is something I'm excited about and looking forward to, or wary of and should never be done...

They've cancelled the Salmon of Doubt radio series? Damn! Given the way that Long Dark tea-Time of the Soul had seemed to be bringing it into H2G2 'canon' (what with the involvement of Sirius Cybernetics and even a one-line cameo by Marvin) I was looking forward to that...

 

[HappyDayRiot]

What? Marvin was in the Dirk Gently radio series? When did that happen?

 

[Middle Earther]

Looks like it could be interesting. Although I'm very interested in Hitchhiker #6 - I kinda liked Artemis Fowl.

 

[Pindar]

Now you tell me. I ordered the book last night... Never read any of his other work.

I like his Artemis Fowl books, but I still don't like the idea of anyone else writing HHG.

The Dirk Gently Radio series is very good, up there with the HHG radio series.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Now you tell me. I ordered the book last night... Never read any of his other work.

I like his Artemis Fowl books, but I still don't like the idea of anyone else writing HHG.

The Dirk Gently Radio series is very good, up there with the HHG radio series.

I don't really, either, but I thought I'd give it a go.
I can't remember if I finished the Dirk Gently radio series. I know I read the first book, but not the second yet.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I'm intrigued. I actually prefer the Dirk Gently novels to the Hitchhiker's ones. (It's one thing to just randomly make up absurd alien cultures. It's quite another to so blatantly point out the absurdities in our own.)