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However, its use was full of unforeseen random and improbable effects to anywhere it passed. It also provided a great model for the Multiverse in Douglas Adams' mind, with different parallel realities simply being further and further down the probability axis Somewhere, anything – no matter how improbable – was happening; you just had to work[...]

But there were other related items as well, such as Freddie Mercury's bookshelves. Which featured Flash Gordon comic book collections, fitting for the man who scored the movie. But, below the Beatrix Potter, there were also Foundation books by Asimov, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detetcive Agency by Douglas Adams, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, The Number Of The[...]

Plenty of people have looked at recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and compared them to the work of Douglas Adams in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, especially the Genuine People Personalities of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation, such as Eddie The Shipboard Computer and Marvin The Paranoid Android, as well as Deep Thought The people[...]

Douglas Adams has occasionally been called the seventh Python – a role he battled with Neil Innes over But he both appeared and wrote on the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, and worked many times with the individual Pythons, a co-writing partnership with Graham Chapman, and co-wrote Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Douglas Adams[...]

It looks at his history in South Africa, the science-fictional history that both criticised and supported apartheid, as well as Douglas Adams' own involvement And that "in this world, stock prices can be driven partly by fantasies found in blockbuster superhero movies, but that come from science fiction, some of it a century old If[...]

A multiverse of multiverses, each with infinite universes, each with uncountable galaxies, each with uncountable stars and all revolving around, as Douglas Adams put it "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun Orbiting this at a distance of[...]

Hulu is hoping a lot of subscribers are ready to grab their towels and tune up their babble fishes, with the streaming service announcing plans to bring Douglas Adams' classic comedy/sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to series Deadline Hollywood reports that showrunner Carlton Cuse (Lost, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Locke & Key) and[...]

The science-fiction detective series was based on the novels of the same name by celebrated author Douglas Adams The series was adapted by Max Landis and starred Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood. The cable network released the following announcement: We are beyond proud of this brilliant original series and so appreciative of the outstanding team behind it[...]

Footage was used in the subsequent Five Doctors crossover to explain the absence of The Fourth Doctor, Douglas Adams reworked the story into Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in 1992, its recorded footage was released on video using linking narration by Tom Baker to complete the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7LQvT_5C0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Doctor Who:[...]

Adapted from the popular novels from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams, the Sherlock Holmes-with-a-twist series chronicles the case adventures of "holistic detective" Dirk Gently with his reluctant and his constantly questioning assistant Todd as they use fate and an "interconnected universe" to solve strange and unique crimes. Here's your first look at Dirk Gently's[...]

It's based on a series of novel's by the late Douglas Adams and adapted for television by Max Landis The series has a Doctor Who vibe going for it, which makes perfect sense since Adams, who may be best known for his The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy novels wrote three episode of Doctor Who[...]

Today sees the release of IDW's first issue of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, based on the Douglas Adams character from the novels, though telling new USA-set stories ahead of IDW's television adaptation of the same. Unlike the previous TV series which tried to merge aspects of the books into the new stories they told, these[...]

Here's an extended preview of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the comic based on the books by Douglas Adams, being turned into both a comic and a TV show by IDW, and written by IDW's Chris Ryall, even though he shouldn't have been allowed to and they should definitely have come to me instead. Just saying. It's[...]

If I was editor-in-chief of a comics publisher, and I saw the Dirk Gently rights going spare, you are damn right that a) I'd snap them up and b) I' write the damn thing myself. In partnership with Ideate Media, IDW Publishing is proud to announce that Dirk Gently, Douglas Adams' beloved fictional "holistic detective" will be[...]

 IDW Entertainment and Ideate Media announced they have optioned the right to turn the  Douglas Adams novels Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and its sequel The Long Teatime Of The Soul into a TV show and a line of comics. The novels, written in the eighties by the late HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams are[...]

Douglas Adams saw the potential years before and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy text adventure is a good example of the possibilities; adapting his own dialogue and utilising skills he had already honed in scriptwriting Perhaps Adams was freer in the medium as he already had experience of adapting his popular story for different[...]

Today, on what would have been Douglas Adams' 61st birthday, Google create a visual interactive Hitch Hikers doodle logo, with a live Guide reprising visual versions of famous entries, from th Earth being Mostly Harmless, the origin of the universe in a sneeze, what Deep Thought was all about, how to fly by aiming yourself[...]