‘Dirk Gently’: Series 1 Episode 2 review
Like last week’s opening episode, it’s intelligently-plotted, well-acted and makes exceptional use of a small budget to end up looking extremely stylish.
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Like last week’s opening episode, it’s intelligently-plotted, well-acted and makes exceptional use of a small budget to end up looking extremely stylish.
At some point the show finds a rhythm that the pilot never had and bounces jauntily along with verve and – crucially – some much-needed laughs.
Based on the books by Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently returns to BBC Four next month for a new three-part series.
Stephen Mangan (Green Wing) returns to BBC Four in Dirk Gently next week as the morally dubious, self-styled Holistic Detective, alongside Darren Boyd (Spy) as Dirk’s business partner Richard Macduff, who attempts to rein in Dirk’s more tangential decisions, keep them both out of prison and generally restore order to the chaos that Dirk creates. … >
The BBC have released a trailer for the new series of Dirk Gently, which returns to BBC Four next week.
Out now from AudioGO, all five radio series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are collected together for the first time in a handsome box with magnetic lid. The adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox and their assorted human, robotic and alien companions, this really is the ultimate answer to Life, the … >
It may seem like sacrilege to some devotees of the late author, but not everything Douglas Adams produced was of the high quality as witnessed in the earlier instalments of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
Misfits creator Howard Overman’s Dirk Gently drama will return to BBC Four next year for three 60-minute episodes.
A new clip has been released from BBC Four’s upcoming adaptation of Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gentlly by Misfits writer Howard Overman.