From the BBC – Stephen Mangan (Green Wing) has been cast as the title character in BBC Four’s adaptation of Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, where he will star opposite Darren Boyd, Helen Baxendale, and Howard Overman.
Dirk Gently is being produced by ITV Studios in association with The Welded Tandem Picture Company and will be directed by Damon Thomas (The First Men In The Moon, Crooked House). Project is expected to air either at the end of the year or in early 2011.
Book Jacket:
There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently’s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.
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