With Max Landis running the show, Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently is once more making a go of it on TV screens. The new series, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency stars Samuel Barnett as Dirk and Elijah Wood as Todd, and now Netflix has announced that it will carry the series everywhere outside of America.
Though we might have guessed that the show's home base of BBC America would mean the Beeb in the UK would get first crack, Netflix has swooped in to take the rights to stream the initial eight-episode run, albeit on a slight delay – the show premieres on BBC America in October, but won't arrive on Netflix until December.
Gently (real name Svlad Djelli) is an investigator who approaches his cases based on a belief in the interconnectedness of all things. He blundered through two adventures, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in 1987, and The Long, Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul a year later. The latter features the Norse gods, and the former involves Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an alien, and an electric monk that believes the world is pink. In the books, he's often accompanied by Richard MacDuff, though it seems that character has been switched to the more Stateside-friendly Todd. The plan for the series is to have each season tell one mystery for the duo to solve. With luck, this one might last longer than the late, lamented first BBC TV version from 2012.