.....No offense, but... where's his hat? How many times during that book series was it mentioned that he had a disturbingly fanatical devotion to his hat? Oh, never mind.
@antifacistppl Wrong, the canceled Doctor Who episode 'Shada' was actually the base for Proff. Chronotis and several other plot points in the first Dirk Gently novel, not the other way around.
@Allofusien oh ok i just assumed that he had the concept down since he did mention that he was writing another series other than hitchhikers at the time. but he did "adapt" the story, not the book, into a screenplay and he did adapt the story then into a book, lol i would like to denote that i may be more than less half wrong.
Where was Gorden Way, from way Forward Technologies being shot in the chest? Where was the Monk and his horse? Where was Odin? Where was kate and the Airport check in scene? ?????????? WRONG WRONG WRONG
@hitchhiker38 If they jammed all of that into 1/2 hour, there wouldn't be much left for the rest of the series. But seeing as it's been months since this was released, I'm guessing we not going to be seeing more. Possibly too many knee-jerk reactions killed it.
@Klaatu42 I can make any assumptions or knee jerking I like, Its called free speech. And seeing as the program they aired, bares am much resemblance as a Chinese mountain goat resembles a Edwardian teapot, I feel Just, in voicing my displeasure
@hitchhiker38 Kate and Odin were in book 2, although they do take the refrigerator from book 2. Also, I agree that it's nothing at all like the novel(where is Dirk Gently's ridiculous ensemble and fat?), I think it's okay. Their mistake was calling it 'Dirk Gently', it's not Dirk Gently. But it's not that bad.
I can't believe so many people actually liked this!
OK, I grant that they have to make some adaptations to transfer the story from paper to the small screen, but the only thing this has in common with the book is the central character. And I hated what the BBC did to the character of Richard McDuff, ie, turned him into a gormless oaf.
Tuned in with great expectation, but very disappointed. Thumbs down. :(
@iamswoop Do you know about Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Every time Adams wrote that story for any medium, radio, tv, computer game, whatever, it never properly followed each other. So why is Dirk Gently such a problem with everyone?
Yes, I followed the Hitch Hiker's TV series avidly, caught a few of the radio shows and read the books several times, all 5 of them, and loved them all. And you know what? Despite the different twists in them they were all true to each other. But this Dirk Gently pilot is NOT true to DA's book, and that is my gripe.
Not what I expected, very unlike the books, casting is odd.... I LOVE it in every way and can't wait to see more. Bravo. Break with convention, take the occasional liberty... as long as they're good ones and the spirit remains the same. :)
@klaatu42 Bravo that man, If i hadn't seen The Title roll up, I wouldnt have know Dirk Chaely, Nee Gelly,Gently. waste of money. If the wanna do something worth while do, "So long and Thanks for All the Fish"
But not with that woman who did the voice for the radio remake.
AND KEEP TO THE BOOK BBC! ITS NOT THAT HARD IS IT?
It was amazing. I couldn't believe how good it was. Just be warned, don't judge it next to the book. Take it for what it is and it's really good entertainment.
why would Adams be spinning in his grave about the Hitchhikers movie? All the changes it made to "whatever" original story were actually in the script he himself wrote "as a movie"
@minbari73 Not to mention Adams actually enjoyed mixing it up a bit for each adaptation of Hitchhikers.. if each story is the same, well that's a bit boring, innit. he actually liked each version of his story to be different.
I loved Dirk Gently! Of course it was nothing like the book- its impossible to film Douglas Adams stuff, but it was still brilliantisimo. Does anyone know if the BBC are going to make it into a proper series?
Mangan's portrayal reminded me somewhat of Simon Callow's Tom Chance from Chance in a Million from years back, and was very enjoyable for it.
I was never really a fan of DG literature, it felt over-contrived in the way much of the early discworld stuff did (which put me off reading any of the later stuff, so I don't know if it improved); HHGTTG has a parsimony which I find more enthralling, overall.. However, this show was done well, and I liked it alot.
i have never read the book myself, but i really liked this when i saw it yesterday. surely the hardcore fans can get over the differances that come with a modern adaptation.
im gonna read the book now that i have seen this. having never heard of it before.
...hmm, also I envisaged Richard (the guy employed by Gordon Way with his music algorithms - also not in this poor adaptation) as someone like Nigel Havers and Dirk Gently more simlar to Tom Baker... ?
no monk, no Prof Reg, no ghost, no stuck sofa, no orbiting ship, no old (ghost) ship in past that started life on earth, no Dodo, no michael wednesday week, the wrong killer, no horse, no music (susan cello player) no party trick in the greek pot with the salt seller causing Reg to use the time machine, I could go on, but apart from the above a lots more, almost right.....
i know i will probably get nailed to a cross but maybe a better actor would have been Stephen Fry... you will probably disagree if you haven't seen his work with Hugh Laurie... hmm...
Svlad Cjelli does not look nearly eccentric enough.
But that's not going to be the main problem. Douglas Adams was certainly a good storyteller, but his brilliance was in each individual sentence. If the television dialogue is not perfectly true to the original (e.g. "I would very much like to know what possessed you... ...and why."), it will just lose its sparkle.
And that's not even considering what will be lost without a narrator.
Was this cast by the same guy who chose David Jason for Rincewind?
Be nice if TV execs actually read the books they intend to destroy. The HGTTG movie already has Adams spinning in his grave, this could launch his coffin out the ground.
@InTheGunnels but Adams was behind the film adaptation. and isnt a part of adam's creative magic the fact that nothing he adapts to a different medium is the same as the original? i for one am excited to watch this show
@InTheGunnels but Adams was behind the film adaptation. and isnt a part of adam's creative magic the fact that nothing he adapts to a different medium is the same as the original? i for one am excited to watch this show
This looks terrible. Gently is a red-faced pudgey man in thick-rimmed glasses with a red hat he wears constantly. He smokes french cigarettes, eats a large amount of pizza and is in no way a lanky fuzzy haired git from Green Wing.
I really wouldn't have gone for Mangan (much as I loved him in Green Wing) except that after Sherlock, he seems like a direct parody of Benedict Cumberbatch. It'll be interesting to compare the two.
I loved Harry Enfield and Billy Boyd on the radio as Dirk and Richard. I will giv this a generous benefit of the doubt. Hope the hat is still imminent. Wonder how 'City of Death' it'll be.
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Great, another terrible adaptation of a fantastic book. Let's hope they suck the life out of it entirely - hell they've already ruined Dirk by casting some gormless fop. We can only hope that it's as bad as the HGTTG movie.
@DomesticApe I really don't understand all the hate for the HGTTG movie. I mean, as far as I can tell, it was entertaining, well cast, and just as faithful as any other HGTTG adaption. Alright, maybe they could have done with cutting a few of the plot threads, but it definitely isn't as bad as everyone makes out.
@CallunaVulgariss Personally, I found that most of the intelligent humour had been stripped from the material - it felt really hollow, and really American.
@conflictfree88 Most of the movie was written by Douglas Adams himself before he died. What people don't understand is that every incarnation of HGTTG has been slightly different from the radio scripts, to the books, to the TV show, and then the movie. DNA understood that he needed to use the right recipe to make it fit the accepted movie formula. I think the best part of all of them is that they each have their own feel. Curious to see what they can do with Dirk without DNA's input.
All these tedious people banging on about his HAT. Get a grip.
Reckoner65 1 month ago
nice movie
rossjames120 4 months ago
.....No offense, but... where's his hat? How many times during that book series was it mentioned that he had a disturbingly fanatical devotion to his hat? Oh, never mind.
TheZacula 5 months ago
crappy actor... sorry if you like him. He needs to be far more poignant and (seemingly) over-confident
sulljoh1 5 months ago
umm, second tv adaptation they should say... adams wrote a few doctor who episodes based on the story.
antifacistppl 8 months ago
@antifacistppl Wrong, the canceled Doctor Who episode 'Shada' was actually the base for Proff. Chronotis and several other plot points in the first Dirk Gently novel, not the other way around.
Allofusien 7 months ago
@Allofusien oh ok i just assumed that he had the concept down since he did mention that he was writing another series other than hitchhikers at the time. but he did "adapt" the story, not the book, into a screenplay and he did adapt the story then into a book, lol i would like to denote that i may be more than less half wrong.
antifacistppl 7 months ago
Where was Gorden Way, from way Forward Technologies being shot in the chest? Where was the Monk and his horse? Where was Odin? Where was kate and the Airport check in scene? ?????????? WRONG WRONG WRONG
hitchhiker38 8 months ago
@hitchhiker38 If they jammed all of that into 1/2 hour, there wouldn't be much left for the rest of the series. But seeing as it's been months since this was released, I'm guessing we not going to be seeing more. Possibly too many knee-jerk reactions killed it.
klaatu42 8 months ago
@Klaatu42 I can make any assumptions or knee jerking I like, Its called free speech. And seeing as the program they aired, bares am much resemblance as a Chinese mountain goat resembles a Edwardian teapot, I feel Just, in voicing my displeasure
hitchhiker38 8 months ago
@hitchhiker38 Kate and Odin were in book 2, although they do take the refrigerator from book 2. Also, I agree that it's nothing at all like the novel(where is Dirk Gently's ridiculous ensemble and fat?), I think it's okay. Their mistake was calling it 'Dirk Gently', it's not Dirk Gently. But it's not that bad.
Allofusien 7 months ago
I can't believe so many people actually liked this!
OK, I grant that they have to make some adaptations to transfer the story from paper to the small screen, but the only thing this has in common with the book is the central character. And I hated what the BBC did to the character of Richard McDuff, ie, turned him into a gormless oaf.
Tuned in with great expectation, but very disappointed. Thumbs down. :(
iamswoop 10 months ago
@iamswoop Do you know about Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Every time Adams wrote that story for any medium, radio, tv, computer game, whatever, it never properly followed each other. So why is Dirk Gently such a problem with everyone?
42guide42 9 months ago
@42guide42
Yes, I followed the Hitch Hiker's TV series avidly, caught a few of the radio shows and read the books several times, all 5 of them, and loved them all. And you know what? Despite the different twists in them they were all true to each other. But this Dirk Gently pilot is NOT true to DA's book, and that is my gripe.
iamswoop 9 months ago
I loved this pilot. there are making more episodes and i can't wait :)
wondakaiba93 10 months ago
They're just recommisioned this for 3 new episodes! WOO x
BritishAlienCompany 10 months ago
WHERE THE FUCK IS HIS RED HAT.
bckasbury 1 year ago
Not what I expected, very unlike the books, casting is odd.... I LOVE it in every way and can't wait to see more. Bravo. Break with convention, take the occasional liberty... as long as they're good ones and the spirit remains the same. :)
klaatu42 1 year ago
@klaatu42 Bravo that man, If i hadn't seen The Title roll up, I wouldnt have know Dirk Chaely, Nee Gelly,Gently. waste of money. If the wanna do something worth while do, "So long and Thanks for All the Fish"
But not with that woman who did the voice for the radio remake.
AND KEEP TO THE BOOK BBC! ITS NOT THAT HARD IS IT?
hitchhiker38 8 months ago
Whats the song!? :) Please help!
BC
BlackChills 1 year ago
Bib!!!
jbsuperstar 1 year ago
It was amazing. I couldn't believe how good it was. Just be warned, don't judge it next to the book. Take it for what it is and it's really good entertainment.
Christoffski 1 year ago
he seems too young and too thin somehow. still looking forward to seeing it.
wonkeaux 1 year ago
What a pile of stinking foetid dingoes kidneys that was. The producer and director should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
lotaresco 1 year ago
@lotaresco Lovely H2G2 reference. Of course, that was to be expected^^
KingLofiOne 1 year ago
Totally not what I pictured reading it - more like Toby Jones in my mind.
redeem147 1 year ago
why would Adams be spinning in his grave about the Hitchhikers movie? All the changes it made to "whatever" original story were actually in the script he himself wrote "as a movie"
minbari73 1 year ago
@minbari73 Not to mention Adams actually enjoyed mixing it up a bit for each adaptation of Hitchhikers.. if each story is the same, well that's a bit boring, innit. he actually liked each version of his story to be different.
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i'd really like to see this -does anyone know where i could find it online since i don't live in the uk...?
scatterbrainedfloozy 1 year ago
I loved Dirk Gently! Of course it was nothing like the book- its impossible to film Douglas Adams stuff, but it was still brilliantisimo. Does anyone know if the BBC are going to make it into a proper series?
MrFinnBurge 1 year ago
Mangan's portrayal reminded me somewhat of Simon Callow's Tom Chance from Chance in a Million from years back, and was very enjoyable for it.
I was never really a fan of DG literature, it felt over-contrived in the way much of the early discworld stuff did (which put me off reading any of the later stuff, so I don't know if it improved); HHGTTG has a parsimony which I find more enthralling, overall.. However, this show was done well, and I liked it alot.
Will there be a series?
duncanparsons 1 year ago
What's the song? :)
BlackChills 1 year ago
i have never read the book myself, but i really liked this when i saw it yesterday. surely the hardcore fans can get over the differances that come with a modern adaptation.
im gonna read the book now that i have seen this. having never heard of it before.
StevieWondersWhy24 1 year ago
...hmm, also I envisaged Richard (the guy employed by Gordon Way with his music algorithms - also not in this poor adaptation) as someone like Nigel Havers and Dirk Gently more simlar to Tom Baker... ?
timelinetwist 1 year ago
Where's the hat and the leather cloak? :/
Niimar 1 year ago
no monk, no Prof Reg, no ghost, no stuck sofa, no orbiting ship, no old (ghost) ship in past that started life on earth, no Dodo, no michael wednesday week, the wrong killer, no horse, no music (susan cello player) no party trick in the greek pot with the salt seller causing Reg to use the time machine, I could go on, but apart from the above a lots more, almost right.....
timelinetwist 1 year ago
and next a BBC4 adaptation of Scrooge - but without the ghosts or Young Timmys family and a really cheerful and generous Scrooge from the start.
timelinetwist 1 year ago
well Im having difficulty posting stuff - too much to say - and complain about -
timelinetwist 1 year ago
nooooooo he looks wrong! he should be pudgy and odd... he looks like the new stupid version of sherlock holmes :/
dear god. I'm still watching it, it's my fave book ever.
greengrendel 1 year ago
Does anybody know what music this is, or is it a composition specifically for this programme?
Gunnersworth 1 year ago
@Gunnersworth I've found the answer now: composed by a guy called Daniel Pemberton.
Gunnersworth 1 year ago
Music?
rocklee1397 1 year ago
Do want song :(
rushingdown 1 year ago
i know i will probably get nailed to a cross but maybe a better actor would have been Stephen Fry... you will probably disagree if you haven't seen his work with Hugh Laurie... hmm...
seagoonproductions 1 year ago
Svlad Cjelli does not look nearly eccentric enough.
But that's not going to be the main problem. Douglas Adams was certainly a good storyteller, but his brilliance was in each individual sentence. If the television dialogue is not perfectly true to the original (e.g. "I would very much like to know what possessed you... ...and why."), it will just lose its sparkle.
And that's not even considering what will be lost without a narrator.
horrabletypoe 1 year ago 2
You can't express Douglas Adams' humor without the use of an ever-present narrator. This does not look promising.
Superkuh2 1 year ago
Stephen Mangan should play The Doctor after Matt Smith.
rocklee1397 1 year ago 12
Was this cast by the same guy who chose David Jason for Rincewind?
Be nice if TV execs actually read the books they intend to destroy. The HGTTG movie already has Adams spinning in his grave, this could launch his coffin out the ground.
InTheGunnels 1 year ago
@InTheGunnels but Adams was behind the film adaptation. and isnt a part of adam's creative magic the fact that nothing he adapts to a different medium is the same as the original? i for one am excited to watch this show
nottherealjaberwocky 1 year ago 2
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@InTheGunnels but Adams was behind the film adaptation. and isnt a part of adam's creative magic the fact that nothing he adapts to a different medium is the same as the original? i for one am excited to watch this show
nottherealjaberwocky 1 year ago
Where's his hat?
jacevicki 1 year ago
Looks like the first book.
thakras 1 year ago
I would NEVER want to have the overwhelming task of adapting Dirk Gently to television. The books are confusing enough on paper.
ryokiishidachan 1 year ago
"drama"?!
funkycoder1 1 year ago
this requires more stephen fry
Fulltonic 1 year ago 30
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@Fulltonic requires less stephen fry
johnvile 1 year ago
This guy looks like Mika without the gay stuff.
aligrebeka 1 year ago
This is not at all how I imagined the books were, I guess though that that's the exact reason I looking forward to this so much!
Djtjj1 1 year ago
This looks terrible. Gently is a red-faced pudgey man in thick-rimmed glasses with a red hat he wears constantly. He smokes french cigarettes, eats a large amount of pizza and is in no way a lanky fuzzy haired git from Green Wing.
At least they got the tie right.
liquidpi 1 year ago
I really wouldn't have gone for Mangan (much as I loved him in Green Wing) except that after Sherlock, he seems like a direct parody of Benedict Cumberbatch. It'll be interesting to compare the two.
anarcharnate 1 year ago
Terrible choice for Dirk, but wonderful to see it being adapted.
thefantasticmrfox 1 year ago
I loved Harry Enfield and Billy Boyd on the radio as Dirk and Richard. I will giv this a generous benefit of the doubt. Hope the hat is still imminent. Wonder how 'City of Death' it'll be.
WorldVideophone 1 year ago
Always nice to see more Douglas Adams stuff but hard to judge from the trailer.
This makes it look more like a generic detective drama, and not really how i imagined the character to look.
kobold86 1 year ago
Don't know how accurate it will be to the books, so the purist police will no doubt be writing to the Mail complaining, but it looks like FUN!
Yay Mangan is a perfect piece of casting.
whitecurve 1 year ago
Oh sweet jesus this is awesome!
sinrtb 1 year ago
Think i'll enjoy this... It's not based on any of the books as such.
(that would need a 13 episodes series to tell each book!)
s0litaire2k 1 year ago
@s0litaire2k
What? No electric monk? DAMMIT!
Mark73 1 year ago 3
@Mark73 At 0:23 you can see the words "ELECTRIC MONK" on the whiteboard :D
CourtesyCareBear 1 year ago
Hat?
alpharaptor1 1 year ago
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Great, another terrible adaptation of a fantastic book. Let's hope they suck the life out of it entirely - hell they've already ruined Dirk by casting some gormless fop. We can only hope that it's as bad as the HGTTG movie.
DomesticApe 1 year ago
@DomesticApe I loved the HGTTG movie...
vsfmtvenc 1 year ago
@DomesticApe I really don't understand all the hate for the HGTTG movie. I mean, as far as I can tell, it was entertaining, well cast, and just as faithful as any other HGTTG adaption. Alright, maybe they could have done with cutting a few of the plot threads, but it definitely isn't as bad as everyone makes out.
CallunaVulgariss 1 year ago 2
@CallunaVulgariss Personally, I found that most of the intelligent humour had been stripped from the material - it felt really hollow, and really American.
conflictfree88 1 year ago
@conflictfree88 Most of the movie was written by Douglas Adams himself before he died. What people don't understand is that every incarnation of HGTTG has been slightly different from the radio scripts, to the books, to the TV show, and then the movie. DNA understood that he needed to use the right recipe to make it fit the accepted movie formula. I think the best part of all of them is that they each have their own feel. Curious to see what they can do with Dirk without DNA's input.
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notboring0 1 year ago
Huzzahs!
Kitsua 1 year ago
I am pleased by this.
TheClassyviking 1 year ago 31
While I *AM excited, I do miss his hat. It's like Arthur Dent w/o his bathrobe.
markyboy01 1 year ago 3
This does not look at all how I'd envisioned it. :( Hope it's good regardless
razorlikeblue 1 year ago 2
I also cannot wait. loved the books
:-)
carrumba 1 year ago
Cannot wait!
michaelwalshman 1 year ago