Dirk Gently BBC TV Show

[chris_askham]

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]

[Dandontdare]

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.

[zombemybabynow]

Watching it now via sky plus - guy secretan is very good and the hopkirk deceased-esque music is great

[Professor Bear]

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?

[Rog69]

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.

[Daveycandlish]

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)

[Keef Monkey]

Didn't realise this had been on already, to iplayer I go...

[worldshown]

Watched this last night. Wasn't bad, but the story was stripped right down to the bare bones.

[Jimmy Baker's Assistant]

I liked this, well written and very well acted. Would make a good series.

[FantonEsquire]

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!

[Tiplodocus]

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)

[The Legendary Shark]

There was a pilot last year.