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http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/08/25/bbc-officially-announces-dirk-gently-tv-show/ (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/08/25/bbc-officially-announces-dirk-gently-tv-show/)
Excellent! This could make a really good tv show, even if it just ends up being a one-off adaptation of the first book. Hope they do a good job of it, there's no real reason why it can't work brilliantly.
Cool! There's just not enough people called Dirk in popular fiction for my liking! Looking forward to this!
Fingers crossed will be better than the atrocious radio version
Keep Harry Enfield away from it.
Oh fuck yeah.
Who would be good in the role.
Alan Davies perhaps (ducks for cover!!!) :lol:
Quote from: Van Dom on 28 August, 2010, 10:09:16 PM
Oh fuck yeah.
Who would be good in the role.
Alan Davies perhaps (ducks for cover!!!) :lol:
...that's not actually too bad an idea.
They'll probably go for James Nesbitt, as usual. Hmph.
I'd quite go for Hugh Dennis in this. I love Dirk Gently, but Teatime is even better.
Ideal Dirk: Equal parts Stephen Fry, Johnny Vegas and Milton Jones
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 29 August, 2010, 12:14:46 PM
Equal parts Stephen Fry, Johnny Vegas and Milton Jones
But such a creature would destroy us all!
Quote from: TordelBack on 29 August, 2010, 12:15:47 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 29 August, 2010, 12:14:46 PM
Equal parts Stephen Fry, Johnny Vegas and Milton Jones
But such a creature would destroy us all!
True, but it'd be funny!
Is it wrong to say I preferred the Dirk Gently books to Hitchhikers?
I can't actually remember anything about the Gently books other than the fact that I've read them. It would have been about 15 years ago because it was just after having read the Hitchhiker books for the first time. While those books have lingered, and I've re-read them several times, I've never felt particularly compelled to revisit Dirk Gently. I suppose they must not have made that much of an impression.
I'll probably do it now though, before this hits, if for no other reason than to pedantically moan about the inevitable changes.
So [spoiler]Shada [/spoiler] finally hits the screen, eh?
Did anyone catch this? I watched it on the iplayer and thoroughly enjoyed it. Read the books in about 1990 or thereabouts, and have absolutely no memory of them, so don't know if it was faithful to the source material.
It was great fun though. Well written and acted. Only fault I saw was that [spoiler]Gordon's iphone seemed to have kept it's charge since the mid-90's, unless I missed something[/spoiler]
It's a long time since I read the books and I was expecting my memory to be jogged, but it was as if it was all new to me. Was it greatly different in this adaptation? I thought it was very enjoyable, but I think Gently was played as a bit too much of an idiot or scammer.
Watching it now via sky plus - guy secretan is very good and the hopkirk deceased-esque music is great
Wasn't Dirk described as a short, slightly overweight sub-continental Asian of some sort in the books? Only I can't help but notice he's a white middle class English pretty boy in the tv version.
You'd never know the BBC had done the adaptation unless you'd been told, would you?
I quite liked it, I'd read the book when it first came out and could remember very little of it apart from his sofa that was impossibly stuck on his landing, but that wasn't in the BBC version anyway.
After a quick look at the Wikipedia page to reacquaint myself with the original plot it seems that it had little in common with the BBC version anyway apart from the characters themselves and before he cleaned it off, some of the case details on the whiteboard in his office pointed at the plot of the original book.
Did anyone else spot the dodgy continuity with the beer glasses in the pub, one second his mate's glass was on the table, then in his hand and then back on the table again.
The credits said this was based on, rather than adapted from, the books.
Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope they make a series from it as Stephen Mangan was pretty good in the role (I never got away with the Harry Enfield radio version)
Didn't realise this had been on already, to iplayer I go...
Watched this last night. Wasn't bad, but the story was stripped right down to the bare bones.
I liked this, well written and very well acted. Would make a good series.
I quite enjoyed this too, despite it ploughing its own furrow away from the original book.
But, trying to compress EVERYTHING from the novel into 60 minutes of television would have been a fruitless task, so I can see why they merely 'based' it upon the books. In doing so, I thought they definitely kept to the spirit of the series, and I'd like to see more, myself!
Did I miss a pilot or something?
I've seen 3 episodes so far
- The Software One
- The Robot at Cambridge
- The Cleaner
and enjoyed them all (as have Mrs and Tiny) but diminishingly so. The music is a bit mentally loud at times and the amount of times they say "interconnectedness" in each episode makes me think they might be two episodes stitched together.
I can't rate them as "adaptions" because can't remember much about the books other than a) preferring them to HHG2G and b) thinking one of them should have been a Doctor Who story (probably was)
There was a pilot last year.