Snoop around Obsessed With Film for my review of BBC4's DIRK GENTLY, starring Stephen Mangan as the eponymous detective created by Douglas Adams, brought to you by the makers of Post-It notes:
A lesser-known property from the late Douglas Adams (creator of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was nevertheless a novel Adams thought would be easier to film than his revered sci-fi opus. Previously turned into radio plays with Harry Enfield as the gumshoe, BBC4 have decided to put Dirk Gently on-screen for the first time, adapted by in-demand screenwriter Howard Overman (Misfits, Vexed). Stephen Mangan (Green Wing) plays the eponymous sleuth, who believes in "the fundamental interconnectedness of all things", and applies this theory of quantum mechanics to solve superficially innocuous crimes. Continue reading...
