It is with trepidation in my heart that I bring you this news.
Earlier this week I had read a fantastic story about how NASA had their LCROSS satellite tweet the words "And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round ... it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! ... That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?" They are the words of course of the sperm whale created from a missile by the improbability drive of the Heart of Gold spaceship from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The satellite tweeted these words before it slammed into the moon; the goal was to create a plume of moon dust that scientists could then scan for evidence of water or ice. I tell you that story to tell you this...
The BBC, 'the beeb', is planning a television series not around hitchhikers but around Douglas Adams' other 2 and a bit novels of another character, Dirk Gently.
The BBC is developing a TV comedy-drama based on Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently detective novels. Literary agent Ed Victor, who represents the author's estate revealed the news at a Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy celebration in central London. He said he had seen 'a great script - not just a good script' for the planned adaptation, but warned: 'With the BBC, it can take forever'. He said the producer attached to the project - thought to be former Cosby Show executive Caryn Mandabach - described the novels as 'the greatest storytelling opportunity for television since Star Trek'.
I am an Adams fan. I have read these books many times over. I don't know if I am fully on board with this. Has the sour taste of the film adaptation turned me off the idea of adapting any more of Adams' work? Is it possible that there is a body of work that shouldn't ever be adapted into another medium? Or, could this work?
Earlier this week I had read a fantastic story about how NASA had their LCROSS satellite tweet the words "And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round ... it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! ... That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?" They are the words of course of the sperm whale created from a missile by the improbability drive of the Heart of Gold spaceship from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The satellite tweeted these words before it slammed into the moon; the goal was to create a plume of moon dust that scientists could then scan for evidence of water or ice. I tell you that story to tell you this...
The BBC, 'the beeb', is planning a television series not around hitchhikers but around Douglas Adams' other 2 and a bit novels of another character, Dirk Gently.
The BBC is developing a TV comedy-drama based on Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently detective novels. Literary agent Ed Victor, who represents the author's estate revealed the news at a Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy celebration in central London. He said he had seen 'a great script - not just a good script' for the planned adaptation, but warned: 'With the BBC, it can take forever'. He said the producer attached to the project - thought to be former Cosby Show executive Caryn Mandabach - described the novels as 'the greatest storytelling opportunity for television since Star Trek'.
I am an Adams fan. I have read these books many times over. I don't know if I am fully on board with this. Has the sour taste of the film adaptation turned me off the idea of adapting any more of Adams' work? Is it possible that there is a body of work that shouldn't ever be adapted into another medium? Or, could this work?
BBC Radio 4 have only recently produced a radio adaptation. I can't imagine a TV version following anytime soon.
Can't wait to see this on TV, it might be better because there are celebrity stars on it.