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Stephen Mangan
Actor
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The thousands of creative decisions behind BBC Four's Dirk Gently
One man, Douglas Adams, wrote two and a half books about the adventures of holistic detective, Dirk Gently, and now over 100 people have collaborated to bring his character to the small screen for a new series which starts tonight. Dirk Gently (Stephen Mangan) and Richard MacDuff (Darren Bo...
Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently: How slavishly should a screen adaptation follow the book?
It's been made very clear to me, mainly through conversations on Twitter, that a lot of people hold the Dirk Gently books in great affection and that they are going to be very upset if we don't get it right. Dirk is described as "a pudgy man who normally wears a heavy old light brown suit, r...
